Retail Resource Guide

Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. ensures the highest-quality products backed by environmental sensitivity and around-the-clock support throughout your supply chain. Our distinctive portfolio offers Supima, MicroTencel®, MicroModal®, Supima Outlast, and various blends, all certified by Oeko-Tex 100, which ensures they are safe for all applications. Additional yarns include Siro Spun and fashion slub yarns in Supima and Supima MicroModal; all offer comfort, durability, and strength. Bring your product to market backed by decades of experience, dependable industry relationships, and unsurpassed technical support. (706) 367-9834 or www.buhleryarns.com

As the oldest privately held factoring company in the Southwest, Goodman Factors provides recourse and nonrecourse invoice factoring for businesses with monthly sales volumes of $10,000 to $2 million. Services include invoice and cash posting, credit and collection service, and cash advances on invoices upon shipment. Due to its relatively small size and centralized-management philosophy, its clients often deal directly with company management/ownership. Its size also enables it to provide flexible arrangements and quick decisions. For more information, visit www.goodmanfactors.com or call Bret Schuch at (972) 241-3297, Ext. 213, or visit www.goodmanfactors.com.

Established in 1994, Hana Financial is a commercial finance company specializing in traditional factoring, trade finance, and international factoring. Additionally, it provides SBA loans and residential mortgage loans. Hana Financial has successfully transformed itself from a local start-up, primarily serving a niche market of Southern California, to a nationwide firm garnering businesses from all across the nation. It operates in over 28 industries in four countries, with locations in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Denver. It’s also a member of Factors Chain International. For more information, call (213) 240-1234 or visit www.hanafinancial.com.

Within the promotional tools for sourcing in the region, VESTEX organizes every year the only trade show in the CAFTA-DR region where key players of the apparel supply chain meet at one place featuring the dynamic of an industry committed as a speed-to-market and higher-fashion-garment provider. Its main activity, the exhibition floor, becomes the ideal regional marketplace. Since 1991, the Apparel Sourcing Show is the only international show specialized in the apparel and textile industry in the CAFTA region. For three days and under the same roof, year by year, the key players of this industry coming from different countries involved have met and have done businesses at this show, which has become the ideal forum, bringing together all your company’s needs: a full range of suppliers’ exhibition floor, specialized seminars and conferences, the opportunity to have perfect appointments at the Matchmaking Meeting Program, and social events. Show dates are May 22–24, Grand Tikal Futura Hotel & Convention Center, Guatemala City. www.apparelexpo.com/gt

Fashion’s most comprehensive collection of women’s apparel, accessories, and footwear, WWDMAGIC showcases more than 2,000 emerging to established labels across every price point and trend. Presented in collaboration with Women’s Wear Daily, WWDMAGIC features expert fashion forecasts, exclusive networking events, cutting-edge seminars, and all the styles of the season. Buzzing with the energy of the leading juniors and young contemporary brands, Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is now the dedicated destination for everything fresh in young women’s fashion. Located across the lobby from Central Hall, in North Hall, WWDMAGIC presents an upscale and ultra-fashionable new environment featuring the most sophisticated and sought-after in women’s collections.  Upcoming show dates are Aug. 21–23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. (877) 554-4834, cs@MAGIConline.com or www.magiconline.com.