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Every supplier ships the occasional defect, including good ones. What separates a workable supplier relationship from an expensive one is whether the problem is found in...

Corporate gifting is the part of the bag business that ignores retail seasonality. Nobody buys a welcome kit because it is September. They buy it because...

Trade shows survived e-commerce for one reason: bags do not photograph honestly. Weight, fabric hand, how smoothly a zip runs, whether the straps sit right on...

For anyone selling backpacks, back to school is not a season. It is the season. A large share of the year's volume moves between mid July...

International freight is what turns a $22 unit price into a $28 landed cost, and it is where most first-time importers lose the margin they thought...

Private label and white label get used as if they mean the same thing. They describe two different sourcing models with different minimums, different capital requirements...