Your sportswear OEM/ODM choice can be a big trap!

In the sportswear industry, choosing the right foundry is crucial to the success of a brand.

However, many brands have paid a heavy price for failing to properly evaluate the qualifications, capabilities and credibility of the foundry, and eventually fall into the foundry trap. Dblue sportswear is a mature custom sportswear manufacturer, with a mature design team and 16 years of experience. If you want to know more about sportswear OEM, click on the homepage to see the details!

The first pitfall for sportswear Oems/ODMs is false publicity. In order to attract customers, many OEM will exaggerate their production capacity, equipment level and product quality. In the absence of field visits or adequate background checks, the brand blindly believed these exaggerated claims, and eventually found that the foundry simply could not meet the expected standards, resulting in production that could not proceed smoothly, and even a large number of defective products. Another common pitfall is implicit clauses in contracts. When some foundries sign contracts, they may set some additional costs or vague responsibilities in the terms. If the brand does not carefully review the contract content, it may fall into a passive position in the later cooperation and bear unnecessary costs or legal responsibilities.

After cooperating with the brand, some foundries will use the brand's design or technology for secondary sales or private production, infringing the brand's intellectual property rights. Without effective legal safeguards, brands may face serious design leakage problems and even lose market competitive advantages. When choosing a foundry, brands must conduct adequate due diligence to ensure that the credibility, qualifications and capabilities of the other party are in line with expectations, and conduct a detailed review before signing the contract to avoid falling into the trap set by the foundry.