The tech pack checklist: how to brief an Indian garment manufacturer
Twelve things every good tech pack contains, why each one changes your price, and what we do when a first-time brand sends us only a photo.
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Sourcing guides, craft stories and export know-how from the Satyam Exports factory floor in Noida.
Bagru, Sanganer, Ajrakh: a buyer’s guide to Indian hand-block prints
Three villages, three very different prints. How to tell them apart, what they cost, and how to build a range around them without missing your ship date.
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GOTS, BSCI, OEKO-TEX, GRS, BCI, Higg: what each certification really covers
Six logos appear on almost every Indian factory website. Only some of them tell you anything about the garment in your hand. A plain-English guide from a factory that holds all six.
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From Noida to Barcelona: how a container of denim actually ships
Twenty-eight days, eleven documents and one thing that goes wrong every time. A step-by-step walk through an export shipment from our factory to a Spanish warehouse.
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MOQ, sampling and lead time: honest answers for first-time private-label brands
Why the minimum is 300 pieces and not 50, what a sample really costs, and how to plan a launch calendar that survives Diwali, monsoon and a European summer holiday.
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Why Indian knits are winning European high-street orders in 2026
Tiruppur cotton, GOTS at scale and a duty advantage: the three reasons buyers who once sourced tees from Bangladesh and Turkey are re-costing India — and the two things we still have to get right.
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