We enable brands to bring products to market faster, better, and more responsibly.

“Our GTM Solution ranges from product design and raw material sourcing, to technical package development and sample development, and from material procurement and sourcing of contract factories, to production, quality control, and logistics and customs clearance services. We fill the gaps in our customer’s operations as they need to ensure they can go to market fully covered on all that is required to maximize their brand opportunity.”

<span class="line-quote">-</span> Ralph Iannazzone, CEO

GTM Solution

We enable any size company to work like a big company because our modular Go-to-Market Full Service Solution fills the gaps in your supply chain from concept (Design to Production) to consumers (3PL, LDP to D2C), including trend and gap analyses and fabric R&D. We are an ideal collaborator for consumer apparel brands that do not have full operational coverage — we can turn your challenges into your strengths by doing the things you choose not to do.

Market Intelligence

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Our understanding of today’s consumer brands equip us to positively impact their businesses. This is why our first priority when we engage with a customer is to align ourselves by understanding their business, the brand and the sales objectives. Because we view our customers’ challenges as our own, we want to offer solutions and options.

Concept and R&D

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Our dedicated Raw Materials Team is constantly meeting with suppliers and fabric mills while also attending the latest trade shows to gather market insights. With our understanding of our customers' needs, our dedicated R&D teams are able to bring solutions to our customers with respect to innovative fabrications, trim, and manufacturing techniques. <br>We are able to provide support in concept development as well as key product development, including custom fabric development.

Design & Product Development

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Led by our creative director of 20 years’ experience, product design and development is an essential part of our GTM solution, enabling us to deliver quality products to our customers and add value to their brands. Our team of eight in Hong Kong and the US provides comprehensive support to customer design teams, from establishing style preferences and budgets to originating new designs using industry-specific software and providing 3D virtual samples. <br>Our US Design Studio works closely with customers on creating clear, detailed 3D visualizations, reducing the need for many samples and significantly shortening the lead time in product development. The team’s software skills include CLO, Browzwear, Shimasaki, and Xtex. <br>Experts from our Tech Support Team perform garment engineering, technical support, fitting support and pattern development, enhancing quality and fit consistency. Experienced on-site specialists in Hong Kong and the US with strong wet-processing knowledge support and enhance design and development decisions

Raw Materials & Production Management

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Managing the raw material sourcing from the development stage through to production, examining and verifying crucial details like fiber content, yarn count and weight of the procured raw materials before the first cut is the raison d’être of the Tech Support Team. <br>Collaboration between our Tech Support and manufacturing partners’ technical support teams in information sharing and best practices means CFL is kept abreast of the latest trends and techniques in equipment upgrades, manufacturing processes, and wet and dry processing applications. Mutually beneficial, knowledge refreshes keep these key partnerships strong. Tech Support also constantly explores new technologies and eco-friendly chemical options. <br>Meanwhile the merchandising team connects with design and development colleagues to understand the specifics of the raw materials required for the garments, and works with the factories to ensure all specifications are met throughout the sourcing process.

Quality Control & Testing

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We recognise that delivering quality products to our customers is fundamental to our commitment to them — basically delivering on what was promised. Many of the brands we work with do not have on the ground QC visibility of their products. We do, because delivering the product we promised is just as important to our success as it is to our customers. We are known for our track record of reliability and enviable low return rate. <br>Our group of QC professionals, using their manufacturing experience, conducts a detailed process of checks and balances for each order, from pre-production meetings through to final inspection. Off-shore teams are based close to the manufacturing facilities to conduct on-site inspections during production to monitor performance, including in-line inspections on semi-finished products to ensure quality, and to execute functionality tests on production samples to ensure they are fit for purpose. Many on the Team are experts, including certified colorists, wet processing specialists and technical engineers. <br>They understand very well the individual customer quality requirements and how crucial it is to implement critical process controls to ensure product quality consistency. That needs buy-in from manufacturing partners to ensure expectations are met, and with an emphasis on prevention before production we provide comprehensive training support — so we can “get it right the first time” for high fulfilment and delivery performance.

Supply Chain Management

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We operate within a modular system so customers can choose to engage in any or all of our GTM Solution services. We take our initial brief from meeting with a customer, and conduct our own market intelligence to analyze and fully understand what is required. Then we offer tailored solutions, customized to tackle specific customer needs, so that the customer can focus their resources on developing their brand and making sales. <br>Our GTM Solution ranges from product design and raw material sourcing, to technical package development and sample development, and from material procurement and sourcing of contract factories, to production, quality control, and logistics and customs clearance services.

Global Logistics Management

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We maintain a tried and tested network of international forwarders, liners, and domestic carriers to ensure prompt, compliant and cost-effective shipments and deliveries to customers. This involves over 30 years of in-depth knowledge of international trade and US Customs rules from a team of import/export specialists to ensure proficient customs clearances and transfers, and experience in dealing with any customs rulings, challenges or interpretations of requirements.

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Principal Structure

We enable any size company to negotiate production like a big company through our principal structure. We negotiate your brand’s costs, capacity and lead-times, leveraging the collective volume of OUR portfolio. Because CFL acts as a principal instead of as an agent our customers enjoy the benefits of economies of scale, supply chain efficiency and flexibility that we can bring to bear. This approach also mitigates complex issues of logistics and customs clearance processes, complying with increasing demands of social responsibilities and the tightening of environmental regulations.

Centers of Excellence

We leverage expertise by organizing our team structure, processes, and experience around key product categories to create Centers of Excellence that enable brands to deliver the best apparel and accessories to their consumers. We have built product specialization merchandising teams whose category-leveraged focus positions them to deliver a differentiated level of expertise and provide maximum benefit to our customers. We stay ahead of the competition, and proactively offer innovative development of fabric and products, which turn challenges into ideas and solutions that deliver greater success. We believe the deep dive into a category fosters an expertise and passion in individuals that surpasses what is possible when working across multiple categories. Optimizing knowledge translates into an ease of staying abreast of trends in styles, yarns, fabrics, processes and finishes that can be harnessed to create commercially successful products for customers.

Fully Engaged Experienced Teams

Along with our category expertise through our Centers of Excellence, our client management team members provide maximum visibility and proactive communication, which are essential to the brands we serve. Our directors ensure a brand is clearly briefed across all involved category teams, so we holistically approach each brand’s needs, while being able to leverage our category expertise. While many companies often build smaller teams around a specific brand, we find these smaller teams often lack the depth of knowledge and expertise we bring. From product development, materials and trims, to sourcing and specialized wet processing at on-site production, our teams are responsible for matching customers with the best-fit manufacturing partner, shepherding the order through the process to logistics and delivery.

Brand Protection

Your product is your brand. Brands often do not have in-house garment testing teams and extensive QC services including in-line and shipping auditing.<br> Brand protection not only means protecting the intellectual property of your products but also delivering the product to your customer as it was designed, consistently on specification, quality, and construction. We ensure your brand delivers on its promise to its customers with consistent, quality products through extensive, added-value QC, Testing, Compliance, and Product Integrity Management.

Full eCommerce Solution

We not only offer full logistical support from the factory to your distribution center, but full 3PL services to deliver products from the factory directly to your end customer with integrated eCommerce solutions, especially for those customers looking for warehouse and distribution solutions.<br> We offer seamless systems integration between your eCommerce website into our CFL eCommerce Fulfillment Platform to ensure orders are automatically processed and goods are seamlessly shipped out of our distribution center. We can greatly reduce lead times from factory exit to your customers’ doors, achieving speed to market through our 3PL solution, a critical benefit for DTC eCommerce brands.

Innovation

An innovative approach means we seek to find the white space for brands and collaborate with them to fill it. We do not accept limitations because excuses and accepting the status quo block not only our partners’ success but also our own. We approach our business with passion and out-of-the-box thinking that deliver ongoing value and move the needle for our customers. We believe innovation in both product and technology delivers compelling value to our customers. The desire to introduce customers to the new and the interesting inspires our specialists to find new fabrics, environmentally-gentler solutions, and the latest techniques in wet and dry processing applications. Our ever-growing library of fabrics, wash and technique samples, and trims are continuously updated by the teams who work closely with fabric mills, designated laundries and chemical suppliers. They are also charged with developing bespoke exclusive fabric & prints outcomes to meet customer requirements. We are early adopters of any technology that shortens the lead-time and reduces waste, like 3D design development to sync with your design team on the style before the cutting of any fabric. We have made it a corporate initiative to invest heavily in the latest hardware and software specifically for supply chain management, enterprise resources systems, and design software to support our growth and development. We use customized IT solutions to streamline internal and production management processes to benefit customers. Committed IT specialists facilitate our global connections with customers and business partners, and internally service an intranet platform to enable better collaboration between teams, resulting in improved turnaround to customers.

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Where We Are

We are where you need us to be to provide full-service GTM solutions that manage the total production process from inception to delivery. Our multi-country operations are in locations to support different aspects of our operations — all designed to give customers the best support.<br> ‍<br> Our experience in international trade and business operations has given us a thorough understanding of the manufacturing capabilities of many different locations. Combining the advantages of 50 locations across 10 countries to the benefit of our customers — low import tariffs, international trading policy benefits, lower costs, and strong capabilities in particular sectors — means we can select the best factory to cater to each order. Headquarters in Hong Kong houses fabric research, product and technical development with state-of-the-art pattern and grading capabilities, all feeding into highly-experienced merchandising teams managed by seasoned professionals. Technical teams in strategically-placed production management centers throughout Asia supplement our product design and development capabilities. US offices support our customers there with effective planning and timely collaboration at each phase of activity, proactively engaging with customer design and management teams to accelerate creation of market-leading products, maintaining close contact from concept to delivery. Our team is also very involved on conducting fashion trend research and analysis. For more information, please feel free to contact us!

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HongKong, China

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Semarang, Indonesia

Orange County, California, USA

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA

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Mexico

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Honduras

Egypt

Pakistan

Bangladesh

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Hong Kong, China
Shenzhen, China
Semarang, Indonesia
Hanoi, Vietnam
Orange County, California, USA
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cambodia
Egypt
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Pakistan
Philippines
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