Followed are tips for those of you who want to start your private label jean or want to expand your private label jean brand.
First tips: To maximize your profit, I recommend you to keep your production cost low by producing your jeans in countries like China or Vietnam. I outsourced my private label jean to China and I paid approx. $10 per jeans. That’s for a good quality jeans, not a crappy one. If you Google “jeans manufacturers”, I bet you can find quite a few local jeans manufacturers. But Chinese jeans manufacturer is still way cheaper. The benefit of producing your jeans locally is safer because you can report them to Better Business Bureau if something happens. The con is expensive. There’s a way to make your deal with foreign jeans manufacturer safer by using local jeans agent.
I used local jeans agent called Jeans By You (www.JeansByYou.com) and I live in the US. If you don’t live in the US, that won’t be a problem because my jeans agent has customers all over the world. They can speak English and Indonesian fluently. You can contact them by email, Skype, or MSN. I specialized in men and women pants and children clothing and I produce all of my private label jean in China. I don’t speak Chinese, I don’t know anyone in China, I’ve never gone to China, and I’m afraid of being scammed by Chinese manufacturers. Quite surprising huh?? I’ve been working together with Jeans By You and they act as an intermediary between the Chinese manufacturer and I. I send them my designs, photos of jeans, or an actual jeans that I want to produce, and they will get back to me with all of the information such as the cost per jeans, production time, and etc. They send me jeans sample before final production so I can check the quality of the jeans. If I like the sample jeans, then they will go ahead with the final production. If I don’t like the sample jeans, they will make changes according to my instruction. For sample jeans, I only pay the production cost (which is around $10) plus shipping cost from China to US. They accept Escrow, PayPal, Letter of Credit, and wire transfer. So far, I’ve never had any problem with them. After final production, they can arranged the shipping for extra cost. I would rather pay a little extra money to use jeans agent rather than to deal with Chinese manufacturers directly. You might think their service is costly. Surprise surprise… I paid $10 for each jeans and that’s it. No extra charge. That’s why I keep on coming back to them.
Second tips: Based on my experience, you have to have some kind of evidence to show that you’re the owner of your private label brand. Otherwise, your jeans will not pass Chinese customs and your country’s customs.
Third tips: buttons, rivets, or label with your logo/design on it is costly because the manufacturer has to make a mold for your design. Usually it costs around $150/mold. Say you have 3 different sizes (10mm, 15mm, and 20mm) of logo for your buttons, then you have to pay around $450 for 3 molds. That molds are made especially for you and cannot be used by other buyers. Luckily, that’s only a one-time charge. You don’t have to pay for the mold costs for your next orders as long as you use the same manufacturer. You only have to pay for the production cost of the jeans.
Fourth tips: Most of the time the minimum order is 100 pieces. Only few factories want to produce 50 jeans and if they do, usually you have to pay extra. The more quantity you order, the cheaper the cost per jeans. If you order 10,000 jeans or more, you don’t have to pay for the label fee (on the back above the belt loop).
Hope these tips can help you and all the best for your private label jean business.
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