DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Our London based designers develop many collections throughout the year. Designs have mass market appeal meeting our customer’s expectations on style, whilst keeping prices at a competitive level.
GTHS offer an exclusive design service to its clients allowing the development of exclusive artwork or entire capsule collections.
Full access to all of the latest trend forecasters provides GTHS with the latest catwalk reports and global predictions at the click of a button. These are then filtered and translated to create fashion forward commercial designs.
Our design development centre in China presents us with inspirational knit concepts and fabric developments with a fully dedicated team to support us with your sourcing requests.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
We have a renowned reputation for quality due to our large experienced team of fabric, yarn and garment technologists. Our inspection centre has specially equipped facilities for needle detection and our suppliers are fully certified.
Our internal quality controllers conduct inline, midline and final inspections in accordance with A.Q.L 1.0 or as per your specific requirements. GTHS also collaborate with SGS and ITS for third party inspections and testing.
GTHS ensure that directly controlled accredited suppliers are used; with the right facilities that are best suited for each style and client. We maintain complete control over quality and cost for every style that goes into production.
MERCHANDISING
Sales, price negotiation and order follow up is carried out directly with our accomplished teams in China. This direct communication shortens and simplifies the approval process which allows us to offer faster lead times.
This process is also supported by the sales team in London when required.
SAMPLING
GTHS have an extensive sample development team, with over 200 people based at our head office in China.
Having our own sampling facilities allows us to prioritise and react quickly to all sampling requests without having to rely on suppliers. The experience and knowledge of our sampling team allows us to offer the best solutions to customers, in terms of fabrics and yarn to ensure prices remain competitive.
SUPPLIER SOURCING / ETHICAL TRADING
GTHS is dedicated to improving ethical standards throughout our global supply chain by working in close partnership with both of our factories in China and Cambodia. Our internal auditing teams are continually improving our compliance performance. By working with our partners BSCI, SEDEX and WRAP to ensure all our manufacturers are certified and meet some of the highest standards within the industry.
DISNEY FAMA
GTHS is a well recognised supplier of Disney and other leading licensed products. We are experienced in dealing with licensor approvals and sign off procedures.
