UNIQO SOURCING

Apparel and home textile sourcing from Turkey

Where brand requirements meet factory reality.

End-to-end sourcing, product development, costing and production management for brands that need more than a supplier list.

US-based relationship · Istanbul-based execution · Direct manufacturer-to-brand purchasing

01Concept & design direction
02Fabric & trim development
03Sampling
04Costing & negotiation
05Production & inspection
06Export & delivery

Built on both sides of the supply chain

Not a factory. Not a buying agent. Not a supplier directory.

Our experience spans brand-side buying, sourcing and merchandising, as well as two decades of developing Turkish suppliers to meet international product, quality and commercial requirements.

We understand the commercial requirements of the brand, the technical realities of production and the cost structure connecting the two. That is the whole job: a sourcing and production partner between the brand and the factory floor.

We work for the brand, not the factory.

No hidden supplier mark-ups. No information asymmetry. You know which mill makes your product, what it costs to make, and exactly where it stands in the calendar.

Two distinct supply bases. One sourcing discipline.

Different mills, different technical demands, the same method applied to both.

Apparel

Tailoring, outerwear, shirting, knitwear, woven and jersey, activewear and swimwear. Built on vendor relationships developed over two decades of sourcing and production work.

Home textiles

Towels, bathrobes, beach towels and peshtemals, bed and table linen. Turkey has one of the world's deepest production ecosystems for terry and cotton home textiles, with Denizli at its centre.

Pricing you can see.

A factory quote is not a cost structure. We break the price down, challenge the assumptions and negotiate against the real drivers of cost.

A transparent commercial model

The question every brand asks about a sourcing partner, answered before you have to ask it.

You buy directly from the manufacturer. We manage the sourcing, development and production process on your behalf, and charge a separate service fee.

The goods are invoiced by the factory to you. No hidden supplier mark-up, no undisclosed margin sitting inside the product price, and no incentive for us to steer you toward a more expensive vendor.

One partner between your brand and the factory floor

Most brands lose time and margin in the gaps: a supplier who cannot hold quality, a fabric that arrives late, a price that was never properly negotiated. We close those gaps.

Sourcing & vendor management

A vetted network of manufacturers, matched to your product, quality level and order size — not whoever happens to be free.

Product development

Technical support from sketch to approved sample: fabric and trim research, print and wash development, seasonal capsule work.

Costing & commercial negotiation

Open costing, price benchmarking and negotiation against the real drivers of cost rather than against a quotation you have no way to test.

Production & quality

Critical path management, capacity planning, and inline and final inspection so that what ships is what was approved.

Selected brand experience

20+ years connecting brands and factories

20+ years across brand-side buying, sourcing, merchandising and production. These are past employers and clients of the team, not a list of current accounts — and they are the reason we already know how a brand like yours runs its calendar, its margins and its quality standard.

What working with us changes

We stay deliberately close to the work. You deal directly with the people making the decisions, not an account layer.

One point of accountability

Mill, fabric supplier, inspection and freight normally sit in four separate conversations, each blaming the other. Here they sit in one. When something moves, you hear it from us.

Open costing

You see the cost structure behind the price — fabric or yarn, consumption, labour, trims, finishing, overhead and margin — and we negotiate from there.

Low MOQs, fast lead times

Our vendor base includes mills and factories willing to work at moderate quantities with rapid sample turnaround — the hardest thing for a growing brand to find alone.

Risk taken off your desk

Supplier evaluation, compliance monitoring (BSCI, Sedex and equivalent) and capacity checks happen before an order is placed, not after a delivery slips.

Transparency as method

You see the supplier, the cost breakdown and the production status. Nothing about our position in the chain depends on you knowing less than we do.

How we work

A sequence, not a menu. Each stage has an owner, a document and a date — which is why delays get caught early rather than at the port.

01Brief
02Vendor selection
03Development
04Costing
05Production
06Inspection & ship

See the full sequence, including what happens when something goes wrong →

Tell us what you are developing next season.

Send a tech pack, a mood board, or just a category and a target price. We will tell you honestly whether Turkey is the right place to make it.

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