Buyers · Distributors & Importers
Sock Supply for Distributors & Importers
Volume sock supply with private label for your own catalogue: mixed containers, tiered pricing, allocated yarn on bulk programs and full export documentation.
The problems this channel actually has
Be blunt about which of these you recognise — it tells us more about your requirement than a specification does.
Margin is thin before the container lands
Freight, duty and warehousing sit on top of the FOB price. A supplier who quotes optimistically on freight destroys the number the whole business was planned around.
Your customers buy your brand, not ours
A distributor needs product in its own brand and packaging, at a price that leaves room for two margins — yours and your customer’s.
A container is a commitment
Order too little and you lose the freight efficiency; order too much and the range is stale before the second container.
Documentation failures are expensive
A missing CO or Form E, or a carton mark that does not match the manifest, can hold a container at port far longer than the production lead time.
What we provide
Against each of those problems, concretely
- Tiered volume pricing with published break points
- Private label for your own catalogue — logo, labels, packaging
- Mixed containers across styles and colourways
- Allocated yarn and locked price windows on bulk programs
- Full export documentation: CO, Form E, market certificates
- Carton marking, inner-pack marking and manifest preparation
- FOB, CIF or DDP so landed cost can be compared properly
- Phased shipping to your warehouse plan
- AQL 2.5 inspection with photo report on every shipment
- One account contact with weekly written reporting
How it runs, step by step
A typical first engagement for this channel — the shape is the same for a 500-pair trial and a programme order.
Define the catalogue
Tell us the styles, price points and the market you distribute into.
Price the programme
We quote against two volume scenarios so you can choose the container size deliberately.
Build your own brand
Private label packaging and labels produced alongside the product.
Lock yarn and price
On a bulk programme, yarn is allocated and the price window is held.
Ship to a plan
One container or several, to one port or more, with documents prepared for each.
Repeat with confidence
The specification and the colour standards are held, so container two matches container one.
Products that suit this channel
Bulk programs
Container-scale supply with allocated yarn and a locked price window.
Wholesale socks
Eleven sock families available across four price tiers.
Wholesale underwear
A second category for your catalogue, on the same freight.
Own-brand program
Your logo and packaging across the range you distribute.
What we will not do
Quote a price we cannot hold
If the target price you have set requires a yarn or a construction that will not deliver the quality your market expects, we will say so and propose the nearest achievable version — rather than quoting low and substituting later.
Pretend a warehouse is a factory
SOXMILL is a sourcing company, not a mill owner. We run the specification, the QC chain and the documentation, and we are upfront about that. What we do not do is imply we own machinery we do not.
Take an order we cannot make the date on
If your deadline is not achievable we would rather lose the order than accept it and fail it. Dates are quoted as ranges with buffer built in.
Sell your custom design to anyone else
Your artwork, patterns and specifications are used only to produce your order. We do not offer custom developments to other buyers.
Distributors & Importers — common questions
Can you supply in our own brand?
Yes — most of our distributor relationships are private label rather than unbranded. Your logo on the product, your labels and packaging, your barcodes, and we never offer your custom specifications to another buyer.
Do you quote CIF and DDP as well as FOB?
Yes, and for distributor programs we usually quote at least two of the three so you can compare landed cost like for like. Around 60% of our programs ship FOB; Gulf buyers frequently take DDP.
How do you keep quality consistent across containers?
Yarn is allocated to the programme from a locked dye lot with the recipe held, the specification document travels with every production run, and every shipment gets AQL 2.5 inspection with a photo report. Where the volume requires more than one dye lot, we produce a colour panel for your approval first.
Which trade terms can you work on?
FOB Ningbo / Shanghai · CIF · DDP to your warehouse. Our documentation team prepares CO, Form E and market-specific certificates. Around 60% of our programs ship FOB; Gulf buyers often take DDP.
What payment terms do you accept?
30% T/T deposit, balance against B/L copy · L/C at sight above USD 30,000. First orders from new markets may need a higher deposit — we stay flexible for verified buyers and repeat programs.
How do you control quality?
One accountable QC chain from yarn to carton: yarn lot inspection on arrival, inline checks at knitting, linking, boarding and pairing, then AQL 2.5 final inspection with a photo report on every shipment. Our lab tests colourfastness (ISO 105), dimensional stability (±3% after five washes), pilling (ISO 12945-2) and mmHg pressure for compression styles.
Request Wholesale Catalog — no obligation.
Send what you have. A reference sock, a quantity and a target market is enough for us to quote.