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China’s bag industry after more than two decades of rapid development so far has occupied more than 70% of the global share, occupies an absolutely dominant position. As the world production and manufacturing of bags, China has more than 20,000 bags production enterprises, bags products annual sales have reached 80 billion dollars.
No matter which grade of bags you want to purchase, whether you need to enter the large shopping malls, chain stores selling high-end leather goods, online stores selling mid-range bags, or lower-end products sold by street vendors, you always can find the right sources and suppliers in China.
Here we will focus on where to source inexpensive bags. If your target market is the lower end of the consumer, this is an article you can’t miss.
1. Major Bag Production Bases and Wholesale Markets in China
Guangdong bag production base
China’s largest bag production base in Guangdong Province, Guangdong’s bag industry is mostly distributed in Shilin Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou City, and other areas, as well as Shenzhen City. Guangdong’s bag production base has the geographical advantage of being close to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and bag enterprises mainly rely on orders from merchants in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan at the beginning to start large-scale production and processing manufacturing, allowing the bag industry to flourish.
Guangdong is the highest degree of industrial concentration, the most complete industrial chain, the strongest industrial supporting capacity of the bag production base, showing good quality, new style, product grade, and other characteristics, in the leading position of China’s bag manufacturing.
Guangzhou Guihuagang Leather Goods Wholesale Market
Guangzhou Guihuagang leather goods market is the largest and highest grade leather goods wholesale market in China. It is located near the Guangzhou Railway Station and contains more than twenty large leather goods markets in a row, such as Anxing Leather Goods World, Zhong ao Leather Mall, Dongsheng Leather Goods City, Tianhong Leather Mall, Sanyuanli Wholesale Market, and Zhonggang Leather Goods City, forming a matrix of leather goods wholesale markets.
Among them, several markets such as Zhonggang Leather City and Anxing Leather World specialize in selling genuine leather bags. Other markets are selling artificial leather handbags.
Zhejiang bag production base
Zhejiang is the second-largest bag and leather goods production province, accounting for a quarter of the total output of the country’s bag and leather goods. Zhejiang bag industry is mainly distributed in Pinghu, Yiwu, Haining, Cangnan, and other cities, of which Pinghu luggage industry clusters are the most famous. Zhejiang built leather goods factories to more than 2,000, Yiwu accounted for the vast majority of them, with low processing costs, fine workmanship as the main feature. These local enterprises are to produce fabric, artificial leather bags, and the formation of Yiwu as the center of a large leather wholesale market.
Yiwu International Trade City leather goods wholesale market
Yiwu Trade City leather goods market is the largest leather goods wholesale market in six provinces and one city in East China, and the national famous small commodities market. Yiwu Commodity City sales for 14 consecutive years ranked the most in the country. More than 8,000 foreign investors are stationed there. It is one of the largest foreign trade procurement bases in China’s export volume.
Hebei Baigou bag production base
Baigou bag industry is one of the ten regional special industries in Hebei Province, Baigou is “the province’s export base of bag special industry”. Baigou bag processing industry, hardware accessories, and raw materials industry has been rapidly developed. Baigou bag production is based on low-grade bags and leather goods, Hebei’s labor costs are relatively low, the production method is mostly family workshops, and therefore the price is much cheaper.
Thanks to the domestic perfect and developed logistics traffic, Baigou inexpensive bags are sent to buyers and major wholesale markets across the country every day in large quantities. Guangzhou wholesale market, many suppliers selling low-end bags, also from the production of orders from Baigou. Because compared to the local production in Guangzhou Shiling, Baigou labor costs saved a lot.
Baigou Hedao International Bag Trading Center
Baigou bag trading city is the largest luggage professional market in China, with a total construction area of 34,000 square meters. The first floor operates the famous brand bags in Baigou; the second floor operates men’s bags, backpacks, and school bags. The third floor is a variety of women’s bags; the fourth floor operating inventory of goods and a variety of clothing boxes and suitcases, are spot, and cheap, the disadvantage is that you can not counter single. But just enter this industry can first try, so the third floor of the backlog is a good opportunity, will allow you to cost a lot less than others.
Baigou’s foreign trade bags are mainly sold to Russia, Australia, the Middle East, the United States, etc. Baigou bags in the country’s most important sales channel is the e-commerce platform, basically, you see in the major wholesale sites and platforms (Alibaba, AliExpress, DHgate) 80% of the spot bags (ready to ship), are from Baigou . Now the popular webcast in the sale of women’s bags, also mostly from Hebei Baigou.
2. The Main Material Used For Cheap Bags
Factories and suppliers usually choose cloth fabric, semi-PU material, or PVC leather material to reduce production costs for medium and low-grade bags. Among the fabrics, canvas, oxford fabric, polyester fabric, and satin fabric are the most commonly used materials. They are resistant to wear and tear, fade resistance, long durability, low price, suitable for making shopping bags, travel bags, backpacks, etc.
For cloth fabric bag, Hebei Baigou got the obvious advantage on the product cost. Below are examples, that the suppliers on Alibaba selling nylon backpacks and travel bags. We can see the actual factory price from Hebei is over 30%-40% less based on the same quantity.
Semi-PU and PVC leather, compared with genuine leather and full PU leather, the cost is much lower and is widely used in the production of middle and low-grade luggage. It is suitable for making handbags, shoulder bags, and other soft bags. PVC, on the other hand, has no elasticity and no extensibility. The material is hard and more suitable for making hard bags such as stereotyped bags, box bags, and makeup cases.
In the low-grade bags, the general style is simpler, the use of hardware is relatively small. Because of the complex design, the increase in the number of hardware used will significantly increase the cost. So you will find that the style of low-end bags, large hardware such as locking buckles, buckles are less likely to appear. Zippers will generally use plastic zippers, metal zippers with iron teeth less. In fact, nylon zippers last longer than metal zippers and are easier to maintain. But metal zippers make the bag look more classy.
(For PU bags, Hebei Baigou suppliers also have considerable advantages)
3. Inventory and Leftover Bags
As long as the factory has production, it will inevitably produce leftover products. The leftover stock is a small part of the goods left at the end of the sale of manufacturers or merchants. Inventory goods are manufacturers or merchants hoarded or backlogged in the warehouse, or by the order buyer to cancel the order has not yet circulated goods. Inventory tail goods, the price is cheap, even if the product quality does not have any problems, but due to the lack of sales channels, the manufacturer can only sell below the actual value, generally 60% or less than half of the normal production orders. Sourcing such products are particularly suitable for e-commerce online store sales.
But the obvious disadvantage is that after selling a batch, there is no way to restock. If a normal order is made to order, the price will be much more expensive. So the leftover and inventory bags are also more suitable as a gift or promotion, limited-time sales to consumer welfare goods.
Guangzhou Qianse leather plaza- Basement Floor
One is a large leather goods, leather wholesale market. The first floor and the second floor are stalls selling leather materials, and the basement floor has about 100 booths selling foreign trade inventory bags.
Yiwu Meihu inventory professional street
Plum Lake inventory trade street brings together the surrounding areas inventory tailgate industry, forming the inventory trade distribution center in Zhejiang and surrounding provinces and cities. Mainly clothing, bags, accessories. At present, the professional street has more than 2,000 operators.
Baigou Hedao International 4th floor
The fourth floor of the Baigou Hedao International Trade Center is dedicated to the sale of manufacturers’ inventory of tailgate bags. Basically, the inventory of local manufacturers from Hebei. Many styles and colors are a feature.
For the purchase of inventory tailgate bags, you need to rely mainly on offline stores to select. Especially for newcomers, not too familiar with the inventory industry buyers. Because of the purchase of inventory, although the price is cheap, the selection and control of quality are still slightly more complicated than ordinary women’s bags. For those who want to purchase inventory bags, but can not personally select, hiring a local purchasing agent to help buyers to select the goods, is a good choice.
4. Warm Tips for Buy Inventory Bags
Buying stock doesn’t make it so easy to pick out new models. Especially for the buyers who are new to buying inventory bags, they need to pay attention to some details when selecting.
4.1. Try to pick black or dark-colored bags
Because some of the inventory of bags is for a longer time, dark leather bags are more able to maintain the stability of the color. Light colors, such as white, pink, yellow. As time goes on, light colors are prone to fading and discoloration.
4.2. Pay attention to check the quality of the zipper
Especially the hardware zipper package, you need to pay attention to whether the zipper is smooth and not jammed. Nylon zipper bags do not need to worry about this problem.
4.3. Try to have a small amount of variety
Most of the styles of inventory tailgate will not be particularly new. So try not to pick too much of one style. Diversification of styles is also more helpful for subsequent sales.
4.4 Best to pack after the selection of models in person
After selecting the style of inventory, it is best to count the number of face-to-face and ask the supplier to pack well. Most of the suppliers are serious businessmen, they want to do repeat business. But do not rule out a few suppliers, will be after you choose a good style. In the packing time, you have not selected, or mixed in some styles that do not sell so well.
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