John:
How are you? IN the class, you mentioned that you had the goods shipped to a
warehouse location, the staff at the warehouse then would distribute the goods
into different packages to ship to multiple buyers' locations. I have been
talking to a few corporations that have multiple stores in various locations,
and need to position myself to provide the service of shipping to their
different store locations. Could you give me company names that can provide
that service to me? How can I do this inexpensively... the warehousing and
transportation are very costly if I have to do that on my own.
Thank you!
Regards,
Shirley
Saturday, December 18, 2004
how to better distribute to multiple buyer locations
Friday, December 17, 2004
Looking for info on vending machine
Re: [spiers] Looking for info on vending machine
I'm gathering information for a business idea I have and need to know if
anyone can direct me to a distributor who either makes or sell vending machines
that dispense video -VHS - size items.
yikes..this is the thing you are supposed to learn in my class! Check with the
NTDB to see where they come from overseas...check in the thomas register for usa
makers... and then check ebay where vending machines go for abut $125 each...
john
Reps and Nordstroms
Re: [spiers] Reps and Nordstroms
my Northeast and Southeast reps both want West Virginia
b/c that is where Nordstroms Corp is based..
He who writes the order gets the commission... so if a new york buyer goes to
LA to place an order, the LA rep gets the commission...
being assigned a territory helps the rep, so how to assign when they both want
to claim an overlapping territory?
ask each rep to produce the orders they have gotten before from the said
nordstrom buyer, and see who gets more biz...
or (and?) ask each to bid on the territory... whoever tells you they can get
teh most, you award the territory...if they fail, then the otehr gets it in 2
years...
...
as far as buyers... stores like nordtrom will have three levels... corporate
that buys white Tshirts and such basics for all stores... regional that buys
say resort wear so 12 southern california stores and a different buyer sourcing
resort wear for 12 pacific northwest stores, since the customer base for each
territory is different enough to require different buyers.. these are regional
buyers... then every buyer in every store has an "open to buy" where they can
select items for their own store... these should be your target, siince they
are the experimenters...
john
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Looking for info on vending machine
I'm gathering information for a business idea I have and need to know if
anyone can direct me to a distributor who either makes or sell vending machines
that dispense video -VHS - size items.
Any info will help?
Merry Christmas to all!
Reps and Nordstroms
RE: [spiers] Reps and Nordstroms
Mary -
Nordstrom's corporate base is Seattle, WA. And you're right, their
children's buyers are geographically positioned within a Nordstrom
stores district rather than in a single location at corporate or in a
buying office in New York. The buyers are easily identified. Your reps
should be able to dial them directly and meet with them in the stores. I
hope this is helpful.
Steve John
Partner
Oliver John Partners
415.505.6685 (office)
415.665.9127 (fax)
steve@oliverjohnpartners.com
www.oliverjohnpartners.com
-----Original Message-----
From: tiananmentrading@aol.com [mailto:tiananmentrading@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:43 AM
To: spiers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spiers] Reps and Nordstroms
Hi John & e-group,
Happy Holidays!!
Question-- I have a new baby clothing line, and have reps/showrooms in
most
of the major markets... my Northeast and Southeast reps both want West
Virginia
b/c that is where Nordstroms Corp is based... my question is doesn't
Nordstroms have geographical children's buyers so why does matter? How
does this work
since there are so many stores and with reps in specific
states/territories? I
don't have a Nordstrom's order, so it's kind of silly. Please advise.
Thanks!! Mary Morrison
Reps and Nordstroms
Hi John & e-group,
Happy Holidays!!
Question-- I have a new baby clothing line, and have reps/showrooms in most
of the major markets... my Northeast and Southeast reps both want West Virginia
b/c that is where Nordstroms Corp is based... my question is doesn't
Nordstroms have geographical children's buyers so why does matter? How does this
work
since there are so many stores and with reps in specific states/territories? I
don't have a Nordstrom's order, so it's kind of silly. Please advise.
Thanks!! Mary Morrison
Monday, December 13, 2004
White House Mystified
Re: [spiers] White House Mystified
John
Thanks for the tip. As you might be aware the
Economist had a special article on the impact and the
consequences of the dollar perhaps losing its status
of a reserve currency.
Best Wishes for the Holidays,
Jeff
--- wileyccc@aol.com wrote:
> Folks,
>
> See
>
>
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/120704/ALA_B4UEM1VT.027.shtml
>
> and read how in spite of USA being on "half-off
> sale" because of the falling
> dollar, exports have not increased in agriculture,
> which is what they said
> would happen. Indeed, imports are flowing in all
> the more, even thjough "imports
> are more expensive..."
>
> It's not that the govt is lying, they simply don't
> know... the schools dont
> teach this stuff... the problem is as we print too
> many dollars, we are
> wrecking our economy..and the rest of the world is
> realigning before the crack-up
> here in usa... self-employment is going to be the
> best option in the coming years.
>
> John
>
White House Mystified
Folks,
See
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/120704/ALA_B4UEM1VT.027.shtml
and read how in spite of USA being on "half-off sale" because of the falling
dollar, exports have not increased in agriculture, which is what they said
would happen. Indeed, imports are flowing in all the more, even thjough
"imports
are more expensive..."
It's not that the govt is lying, they simply don't know... the schools dont
teach this stuff... the problem is as we print too many dollars, we are
wrecking our economy..and the rest of the world is realigning before the
crack-up
here in usa... self-employment is going to be the best option in the coming
years.
John
And here we go again...
Folks,
I've cut and pasted this one in since NYTimes requires registration... but
our delusional "trade representatives" stupidly arrange to give the Chinese what
is best for them ... "upscale clothes" and keep what is worst for us "cheap
clothes".. sigh... but, of course, we can work with this at the small biz
level...
John
December 13, 2004
China Relents, and Promises Textile Tariffs
By KEITH BRADSHER
ONG KONG, Monday, Dec. 13 - The Commerce Ministry in China announced
Sunday night that it would impose tariffs on some textile exports, a step that
could avert a trade war with the United
States and the European Union over a new influx of low-cost Chinese
garments that had appeared likely to flood Western markets starting Jan. 1.
The ministry's Web site, where the announcement was posted, did not specify
the level of these export taxes or what textiles would be taxed. If the tariffs
are not high enough to limit the competitiveness of
Chinese exports, then the Bush administration could still proceed with recent
threats to impose new limits on shipments by China.
The Chinese decision nonetheless represents the first sign of compromise on
the contentious issue by China, and appears to represent a victory for the Bush
administration. The administration has been under
strong pressure from apparel manufacturers and their workers in Southern
states, who had warned of large-scale layoffs if nothing was done.
A complex system of quotas has limited international trade in textiles and
apparel for decades but will expire on Jan. 1 under an agreement worked out in
1993 as part of the creation then of the World Trade
Organization. Chinese manufacturers have been expanding their factories in
preparation to increase exports once the quotas are lifted.
The Commerce Ministry said in its statement that the goal of the tariffs
would be to encourage Chinese producers to manufacture higher-end textiles and
apparel instead of selling a full range. A minimum tax
will be set for each garment regardless of what each garment costs. If the
tax is $1 a shirt, for example, it might discourage the production of T-shirts
in China, for which the wholesale price is much less than
$1 a shirt, but not silk blouses with much higher price tags.
"This is part of a string of measures China will take to ensure a smooth
transition for textile integration following the end of the quota system," Chong
Quan, a ministry spokesman, told the official New China
News Agency.
A Commerce Ministry aide declined to elaborate.
The Chinese decision to impose export tariffs under Western pressure will
mean that American and European shoppers are less likely to see lower price tags
on an influx of everything from underwear to
Chinese-made Armani ties. But for seamstresses in North Carolina and in
dozens of developing countries that compete with China, the decision announced
Sunday could mean a reprieve from fiercer
competition and possible unemployment.
China is not the first country to impose voluntary restrictions on its
exports in the face of threatened retaliation by the United States. Japan
imposed
quotas on its exports of cars to the United States through the
1980's to allay worries from Detroit that it would take over much of the
American automobile market.
Detroit repeatedly complained that the Japanese had set their quotas too
high. It is similarly possible that the Chinese export taxes will not be set
high
enough to satisfy American textile and apparel producers
or the Bush administration.
The Commerce Ministry said only that the tariff rate would be set "by
considering the conditions of textile manufacturers." There was no immediate
reaction
on Sunday from Washington to the Chinese
decision.
Carl B. Weinberg, the chief economist of High Frequency Economics, a
consulting firm in Valhalla, N.Y., said tariffs would probably not leave Chinese
manufacturers selling any less than they do now but
could prevent them from reaping gains next year. "However, it is a setback to
the W.T.O. objective of reducing constraints on world trade," he said.
Before China was allowed to join the W.T.O. in 2001, Clinton administration
officials insisted on a special provision of the so-called Chinese accession
agreement that would allow the United States to impose
new limits on Chinese textile and clothing imports from 2005 through 2008.
The provision allows the United States to impose limits if Chinese exports
disrupt American garment markets or even threaten to do
so.
The Bush administration has already ordered new limits on Chinese shipments
of four categories of clothing, and has threatened limits on a wide range of
additional categories. European officials had also
signaled their strong opposition to a new influx of inexpensive Chinese
textiles.
W.T.O. rules now prohibit the kind of semi-voluntary export quotas that Japan
imposed on its car shipments in the 1980's. But Jim Leonard, the United
States deputy assistant secretary of commerce for
textiles and apparel, said at a recent news conference in Hong Kong that the
United States would welcome any Chinese effort to make the end of global
textile and apparel quotas a more harmonious process.
He said then that Chinese officials had refused to discuss export limits.
Willie Fung, the chairman of Hong Kong-based Top Form, the world's largest
maker of brassieres, with operations in China, Thailand and the Philippines,
said in a recent interview that Beijing had been
nervous about facing lawsuits alleging the export of garments below cost, a
practice known as dumping.
As a result, Beijing has been trying to discourage companies from quickly
moving factories that make T-shirts, socks and other inexpensive garments to
China from other developing countries while
encouraging production of more specialized clothing, for which antidumping
lawsuits would be harder to prove.
The Bush administration signaled again over the weekend its intention to
limit Chinese shipments if China did not do so, by announcing that shipments
this
month in excess of quotas for 2004 would not be
allowed into the United States in January, and would only be allowed to
trickle in thereafter.
Japanese automakers responded to export quotas by making Lexuses and Acuras
instead of compact cars, increasing the threat to Detroit. As Chinese garment
factories produce costlier goods, they may pose a
new challenge to American companies.
Copyright 2004
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