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Allied National
Provides nationwide and international debt collection services. Serving the fashion and apparel industry.
Apartment1G
Specializes in gift-with-purchase products, promotional items, trade show give-a-ways, corporate gifts, unique retailer items, custom imprinted logo products to assist retailers and manufacturers in attracting and keeping their clients.
Apparel Resources International
Established to help companies in the US and Canada take full advantage of NAFTA providing complete manufacturing solutions in Mexico.
ATAC Network
A network of prominent certified accounting and consulting firms with in-depth apparel industry knowledge. Their associates are devoted to strengthening apparel and textile companies.
Awesome Unusuals
Transforms brand name apparel into unique specialty items. Each piece of clothing is treated by hand. Faces, dragons structures depicting nature in its raw form, show up on the designs.
BizOpInvestor.com
Take an in-depth look at the world of business opportunities and learn how to buy the best business for you. Frequently updated publication covers the entire scope of buying a business - from researching business opportunities to getting small business financing.
BRC Advisors Leasing Group
Based in Beverly Hills and is highly attuned to market trends and developments. Has an enviable track record of completing leasing transactions in one of the most competitive markets in the country. The Leasing Group represents 95% of the retail tenants that come into Beverly Hills, and a vast percentage of retail tenants around the greater Los Angeles area.
California Fashion Association
Promotes California manufacturers and provides its member with a variety of services including labor law compliance and international trade consulting.
California Manufacturing Technology Center (CMTC)
Provides consulting for manufacturing firms at a low cost to help improve profitability and efficiency. The customer base includes apparel manufacturing.
California State Garment Labor Standards
By signing up you get to search the State's entire database of registered garment makers.
Fashion Biz Inc.
Fashion Business Inc. (501c3) provides the fashion industry with the resources and training, to support its growth and profitability. The FBI offers targeted business education, sourcing, networking opportunities, marketing and consulting services through its resource center and business partnerships.The FBI exists to ensure the on going vibrancy of the American fashion industry.
Fashion Scouts LA
An informative site detailing services in apparel & accessory buying for retailers, as well as trend updates for the West coast
Fashion Tailors
Alterations, repairs and professional fashion tailoring
Fashion Trendsetter
An online fashion forecasting, trend reporting & news service which serves up-to-date fashion information from the major trade fairs. Contains seasonal style notes, articles of interest, color and fashion trends, fashion events' and shows' schedules, fashion news, accessory and material trends and fashion resources and downloads database.
Garmento Speak
A Northern California-based apparel industry consulting group. A new "Sourcing Central" features offers to tracks down hard-to-find fabrics and components.
Intute
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. The service is brought to you by a consortium of UK universities and partners.
JNN World Travel
This website offers travel as well as event tickets of all kinds. It is user friendly much like the other Internet travel sites and the rates are very competitive.
Kapler & Associates
"Southern California's Premiere Apparel Consulting Firm," assiting owners and management with improving operations, building sales, and growing profits for companies small and large, whether manufacturing domestically or importing.
Oswego.Group
Specializes in the creation of high quality digital images, interactive sales tools and online workflow solutions for the world's leading manufaturers of apparel, footwear, consumer electronics and more.
POWER Retailing
A professional retail consulting service based in Phoenix, AZ. The company works with small to medium-sized retailers to develop marketing strategies and promotional plans to strengthen cash flow and financial position.
Quail Leasing Services
Finances all kinds of apparel manufacturing equipment in the U.S. and Mexico. Based in Burbank, CA.
Retail Advisors
Offers all business owners a helping hand with resources, articles and tools to help grow your business. If you find these useful you should see what the Well Business Club has to offer.
Retail-Solutions.biz
Specializes in offering consulting services for developing businesses that manufacture and sell products in the apparel and accessory marketplace. Discover strategies that maximize the potential of your business model, learn methods and techniques that will help increase your brand's identity and marketplace presence, identify niche opportunities for sourcing and merchandising your products, create action plans that will streamline your business practices and much more.
Space-Maker
Design and forcecasting office, based in Paris, specialised in sportswear and streetwear. They decode and illustrate creative and social emergent influences; design trend books and create specific trends or exclusive collections for your brand.
Textile Association of Los Angeles (TALA)
Publishes the ultimate sourcing guide for apparel manufacturers' resources in Southern California.
United Business Alliance
United Business Alliance, UBA. The #1 strategic alliance management firm. They know our clients want the best and deliver. If your company wants to become more profitable and increase your bottom line, then you need UBA.
Wells Fargo Century
All your business banking needs: factoring, trade finance, letters of credit and more...
Wendy Cohen
Provides creative/technical/business writing for individual's job search and small-to-large businesses used for promotion, publicity and general business expansion, marketplace image development and recognition.
Women Business Directory
Directory of women's business information and resources
Wells Fargo Designers and Agents