David Birnbaum

It used to be that factories were evaluated on Price, Quality and Delivery… and it was understood that no factory was good at all three. Those were simpler times…

Published August 2007 | No Comments »

Today, there is no center of the global garment industry. A city looking to become the center of the global garment industry will also be a center of high-tech research and education because that is the direction the industry is moving in…

Published September 2006 | No Comments »

Many of us in the garment industry live outside the rational world. In an increasingly competitive business, it pays to question the existing traditions of the garment design process…

Published September 2006 | No Comments »

Recent sales projections say that retail sales will continue to grow and prices will stabilize for the first time in almost eight years. I beg to differ…

Published June 2006 | No Comments »

Import quota is a failed system. Export protection raises many questions and promises to have similar results…

Published April 2006 | No Comments »

In 1979, everyone wanted to work with Hong Kong factories. Then Deng Xiaoping created policies from which was born Shenzhen, today the largest agglomeration of garment factories in the world…

Published March 2006 | No Comments »

How many importers and retailers are in a position to respond to this kind of request?

Published February 2006 | No Comments »

2005 was the year of the much-anticipated quota phase-out. Amazingly, not much changed. Here’s how to look forward to 2006 and beyond…

Published December 2005 | No Comments »

In this industry, every successful factory or country occupies a niche, and being in the mainstream is for losers…

Published January 2005 | No Comments »

Oxfam is a non-government organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in the least developed countries. Who can argue with that?…

Published June 2004 | No Comments »