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Tomorrow’s Apparel Industry: Products, Markets, Sourcing And Processes - Forecasts To 2017

just-style
September 1, 2011
65 Pages - SKU: JS6576914

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This report is intended to stimulate thinking. It is a think piece about the future of the apparel industry. It should encourage apparel industry executives to consider what is going to shape their industry. In the previous edition the shaping of the industry concerned itself with future products, markets and processes in the apparel industry.

What has changed since the previous edition?
Individual changes in the market, in merchandise, in distribution, and in the political, social and economic world will be considered in depth in their respective chapters. But the major changes in the world affecting the apparel industry, in both developed and developing regions in the last eighteen months may be summed up as:

Raw materials, especially cotton, shortages and hence fairly dramatic rising fabric prices.
Increasing labour costs in low cost countries.
Oil price increases, caused by political instability, impacting on transportation costs.
Political instability affecting delivery reliability, particularly from suppliers in North Africa and the Middle East.
The continuing ethical debate about sustainability, the environment and fair trade.
These are the factors influencing our predictions and forecasts of the future of the global apparel industry.

The report contains analysis of the world apparel manufacturing and retail markets, after the current downturn, with future predictions. It looks at recent merchandise trends, market and distribution, sourcing and production, the supply chain, technology, and macro-economic and political issues. All subjects contain our views on recent situations and the likely short-term scenarios.

Combining analysis with forecast data, this is an essential guide to the state your industry is in right now and what will likely happen throughout the supply chain over the short-term future. This report is intended to stimulate thinking. It is a think piece about the future of the apparel industry. It should encourage apparel industry executives to consider what is going to shape their industry. In the previous edition the shaping of the industry concerned itself with future products, markets and processes in the apparel industry.

What has changed since the previous edition?
Individual changes in the market, in merchandise, in distribution, and in the political, social and economic world will be considered in depth in their respective chapters. But the major changes in the world affecting the apparel industry, in both developed and developing regions in the last eighteen months may be summed up as:

Raw materials, especially cotton, shortages and hence fairly dramatic rising fabric prices.
Increasing labour costs in low cost countries.
Oil price increases, caused by political instability, impacting on transportation costs.
Political instability affecting delivery reliability, particularly from suppliers in North Africa and the Middle East.
The continuing ethical debate about sustainability, the environment and fair trade.
These are the factors influencing our predictions and forecasts of the future of the global apparel industry.

The report contains analysis of the world apparel manufacturing and retail markets, after the current downturn, with future predictions. It looks at recent merchandise trends, market and distribution, sourcing and production, the supply chain, technology, and macro-economic and political issues. All subjects contain our views on recent situations and the likely short-term scenarios.

Combining analysis with forecast data, this is an essential guide to the state your industry is in right now and what will likely happen throughout the supply chain over the short-term future.

Chapter 1 Introduction, the previous tomorrow’s apparel industry report reviewed: The previous edition; What has changed since the previous edition?; Forecast methodologies; Definition of apparel; Methodology for market forecasts; Methodology for the other forecasts
Chapter 2 The market, after the current downturn, with likely future scenarios: The nature of the current downturn in apparel markets; The market in 2007; The market in the current downturn at 2011; The market, likely future scenarios to 2017; just-style’s view of the likely future of the market, in comparison with the 2010 edition
Chapter 3 Recent merchandise trends and product changes, with likely future scenarios: Are there any merchandise product changes about to happen?; The product mix in 2007; The product mix, likely future scenarios in 2017; The impact of product changes; just-style’s view of the likely future of product trends
Chapter 4 Market and distribution evolution, after the current downturn, with likely future scenarios: What is meant by distribution?; Distribution in 2007; Distribution in the current downturn in 2011; Distribution, likely future scenarios in 2017; just-style’s view of the likely future of apparel distribution
Chapter 5 The industry, after the current downturn, with likely future scenarios: Methodology of calculating the industry’s wholesale value; The industry at wholesale prices in 2007; The industry in the current downturn in 2011; The industry, likely future scenarios in 2017; just-style’s view of the likely future of the apparel industry
Chapter 6 Sourcing and production, after the current downturn, with likely future scenarios: Supply chain complications; Consumers; Retailers; Brands and wholesalers; Branded and external manufacturers; Fabric and other material suppliers; Simple and complex supply chains; Value added in the supply chain; The role of production; Production in the world’s regions in total; Production in the world’s regions split by garment destination region; just-style’s view of likely future sourcing and production in the apparel industry
Chapter 7 Supply chain external influences impacting the apparel industry: Geography, language and culture.; The lure of low labour cost country sourcing; Cotton, direct labour cost and the cost of oil within freight; The freight calculation; Production costs and supply lead times
Chapter 8 Other external influences impacting the apparel industry: What are the external influences?; The state of the euro zone; Political instability in North Africa and the Middle East; The weakness of the retail industry generally; Green issues; The Japanese earthquake and nuclear disasters; World garment manufacturing figures; Site supply chain facilities close to each other; South America as a manufacturing region; Change the manufacturing process; Localise retailing
Chapter 9 technology and computer systems in the apparel industry: New technology; Recent apparel industry computer expert views; Product lifecycle management, the new holy grail?
Chapter 10 politics and economics: Unemployment and domestic apparel manufacturing; Environmental issues and domestic manufacturing
Chapter 11 winners and losers
List of tables: Table 1: Apparel market values and share by region at retail prices, 2007-2017; Table 2: Apparel market values and share by product at retail prices, 2007-2017; Table 3: Apparel market values and share by distribution route at retail prices, 2007-2017; Table 4: Apparel industry values and share by region at wholesale prices, 2007-2017; Figure 1: The supply chain in the apparel industry - from producer to consumer; Table 5: Apparel production values and share by region at producer prices, 2007-2017; Table 6: Apparel production values and share by region, 2011; Table 7: Relative cost of regional supply of a typical five-pocket western jean; Table 8: Freight calculation (container from China); Table 9: Forecast scenario probability percentages for 2017

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