THE VALUE OF
GAIA SOURCING
ABOUT
Gaia Sourcing is a company registered in London with roots of its business extending to 1993. Gaia Sourcing’s goal is to give the best possible service to our customers.
This includes high quality production, on-time delivery, competitive pricing, fashion, functionality, flexibility, and high ethical standards. We work in a ‘boutique service’ style, assigning individual merchandisers to each one of our clients, as well as QC and other supporting departments who are led by the merchandiser. This approach allows us to a high level of service according to the different requirements, needs and expectations of our clients.
Gaia Sourcing is proud to have a green office certification, sustainability is our never-ending work in progress.
We understand that working in a foreign country can seem daunting and overwhelming.
Working with Gaia Sourcing can help you overcome such issues like: language barrier, vast choice of experienced suppliers, regional variety, cost of access and follow up. All of this makes Gaia Sourcing a must and an invaluable asset. Gaia Sourcing and its sister companies have a high buying volume, purchasing over 7 million pieces a year. Our excellent past performance and experience means that we can help our clients get the best prices and most importantly have their merchandise delivered on time and flawlessly.
SERVICES
Expertise. Intuition. Ingenuity.
INNOVATION
Gaia Sourcing merchandisers and freelance designers visit local and international fairs, exhibitions, and seminars for the latest in trends, techniques, and knowledge.
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They regularly visit fabric, embroidery, print, and accessory suppliers to examine new materials. These merchandisers and freelance designers are on hand to help to share this information between the material suppliers and garment manufacturers.
DESIGN
Gaia Sourcing works together in coordination with the manufacturer’s designs to present a variety of options for our clients.
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Our experienced and creative designers follow and research the latest trends, fabrics, accessories and other textile materials. They are able to apply them according to the clients’ fashion concepts and needs.
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Sector fairs are regularly visited and all new trends are followed and presented to our clients as a report.
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Research of competitors and market are kept up to date and informed to our clients accordingly.
MANUFACTURER DATABASE
Gaia Sourcing has a regularly updated database with over 2000 different manufacturers in Türkiye.
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Manufacturers can be searched by product group, production capacities or other specific criteria. This database allows us to quickly and efficiently find the best match for our clients’ production needs. New manufacturers are continuously being added to the database. Existing manufactures are rated according to the clients’ requirements. This is a part of our “Social and Technical Audit”. For more information about this take a look at our Audit section.
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Garment production has also developed in parallel with this trend. We frequently produce 50/50 and 100% organic garments in both fine and heavy knits with only a minor price difference from non-organic textiles. Our suppliers are certified by major certification organizations such as Control Union and IMO.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Gaia Sourcing regularly audits its manufacturers and related sub-contractors to ensure clients’ quality standards and codes of conduct are upheld.
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Technical Audit
All of our manufacturers’ technical capabilities, facilities, and equipment are audited by our in-house inspectors. The results, which are updated every two years, are reported to the merchandisers.
Social / Ethic / Ecologic Audit
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Following the technical audit, the manufacturer is then audited by an independent inspection company according to the clients’ requirements for social conditions, labour rights, child-labour policies, environment policies..etc. If needed, Gaia Sourcing takes the neccesary action to correct the situation or problem.
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We support our suppliers along with the audit process of BSCI, SEDEX, FWF as a member of WWF (World Wide Foundation), Green Office and STWI Projects by our CSR department.
TEXTILE IN TÜRKIYE
Türkiye is one of the leading countries in cotton production.
The quality of cotton produced in Türkiye is one of the best in the world, second only to Egyptian and American/Virginian cotton. Türkiye’s textile business began in the early 1980’s and grew rapidly reaching 18.000 manufacturer/exporters in addition to the 50.000 related sub-contractors and manufacturers in the following 2 decades. All of this made Türkiye the second biggest country with exports to Europe. In 2006, competition from the Far-East forced Türkiye to decrease the number of its manufacturers. This allowed Türkiye to decrease price level and production time all the while increasing product quality and production innovation. Some of the world’s best known brands are produced in Türkiye including Prada, Boss, Armani, Lagerfeld, Filippa K, Diesel, Zara, H&M, M&S, Gant, Dolce Gabbana, Max Mara, Nautica, Sandro, Maje, Pinko, Patrizia Pepe, Tommy Hilfiger, La Perla.
CONTACT US
Gaia Sourcing UK LLP
Correspondence Address:
27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX
Phone : +44 20 7993 2700
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Istanbul Liaison Office of Gaia Sourcing UK LLP
Tomtom Mahallesi, Nur-i Ziya Sk No:4
34433 Beyoglu Istanbul, Türkiye
Phone: +90 212 249 2200
Web Site: www.gaia-sourcing.com