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APPAREL AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS.

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INTRODUCTION. At CWI Holdings group we globally specialise in design, supplying licensed and own brand apparel across men’s, women’s and children’s wear. We have a wide range of sampling centres, quality control and large-scale manufacturing with offices and showrooms in China and UK. We can offer competitive pricing and tailored solutions to suit the customer’s business whilst also providing strong design, merchandise and marketing teams.

We are constantly developing new and interesting ideas in the apparel industry and pride ourselves in a forward thinking and considered approach.

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Our group is a rapidly growing and dynamic company built over the last 17 years, with strong ties between our China and European offices and team members who have many years of experience in producing apparel.

In addition to adults clothing the group command the childrenswear market with an unparalleled multi product offer.

-OUTERWEAR & MUTI PRODUCT DIRECT SUPPLIER -CHINA BASED -MANUFACTURE SPECIALIST -DESIGN-MERCHANDISE -QUALITY ASSURANCE -PRODUCTION-SALES -FABRIC SOURCING

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-SPECIALISTS IN OUTERWEAR & MULTI PRODUCT RANGES -INNOVATION & DESIGN -DISTRIBUTION & SALES -QUALITY ASSURANCE -MERCHANDISING -SUPPLY CHAIN

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CWI HOLDINGS -UK BASED BABYWEAR SPECIALIST -CONTRACT & BRANDED APPAREL -LICENSED APPAREL -UNIQUE BABY KNOWLEDGE -UNRIVALLED DESIGN INNOVATION

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China based, offering a full service to our expanding modern client base.

Worldwide clients with international teams in the UK and China, our business is structured with dedicated personnel focussing on our individual customers, ensuring a detailed, open, honest and continuous relationship. Our prime objective is to meet all your needs.

With international design, sample and manufacturing teams, experienced across many apparel catagories, we can offer competitive pricing, leading designs and trend research whilst providing a speed to market approach for all our customers’ garment requirements.

Manufacturing and operations are undertaken within our strategic and ethically compliant group.

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Established in 1974 CWI Ltd have been producing a wide range of garments in specialist factories. With long standing support from CWI Holdings and Mitsui, the company pride themselves on a “can do’” attitude.

The design heritage, culture, and fashion forward innovation, propel CWI to the forefront of a customer led service. Dedicated teams will tailor solutions to your sourcing needs. Prior to despatch from our factories, all our products must achieve regulated standards at final inspection before exportation. Further random inspections take place at our UK bonded warehouse prior to despatch to our customers.

HISTORY

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Brecrest Fashion, true baby and infant apparel and licensed specialist, is the latest acquisition to enhance the CWI Holdings group portfolio.

Driven to be the ultimate baby authority with more than 40 years of knowledge and experience in this field.

Our USP is our exclusive design innovation and creativity, whilst adhering to strict ethical, quality and safety guidelines for this most specialist and precious of age groups. Manufacturing centres including China and Cambodia.

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Mitsui & Co., Ltd is one of Japan’s leading sogo shosta, or general trading companies. As a global business enabler, Mitsui operate subsidaries and associated companies with offices in over 66 countries throughout the world.

Since it’s founding, Mitsui has helped to drive the development of the Japanese economy and has contributed to growth in many other economies around the world via established and emerging global markets.

Mitsui’s strength is their financial structure. Growth is driven by creating trade flows and making business investments in worldwide enterprises and industrial sectors. Mitsui’s five principal functions are marketing, financing, logistics, risk management and its process development capabilities. By implementing global initiatives with strategic business partners, Mitsui is able to reinforce management structures to acheive sustainable growth.

By sharing common values, yoi-shigoto (good quality work), they are able to assist clients by realising their maximum business potential, whilst enhancing their own corporate value.

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DESIGN

Design & marketing focused to customer requirements.

STRONG PARTNERSHIPS

With suppliers and customers.

VALUE

INNOVATION

Great products at competitive prices.

Research and development.

OUR STRENGTHS EXPERTISE

SERVICE

International team of professional merchandisers and designers.

From product development to customer delivery.

QUALITY

The culture at the core of our operation.

FLEXIBILITY

To our customers’ changing requirements.

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KIDS WEAR

CANADA

EUROPE CUSTOMER BASE. USA OUTERWEAR

LEISURE WEAR

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Experts in technical and fashionable apparel for babies, children, mens and womens categories and with decades of building relationships with our key customers and global brands across Europe, North America and Asia.

Our increasing manufacturing strength, wealth of experience and own international design resource provides customers with the latest market and product intelligence whilst proving, for every season, to be a reliable and leading supplier of apparel solutions for a multitude of fashion retailers.

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DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE. One of CWI Holdings greatest strengths come from our European and Chinese design teams, whose vast experience, extensive research and new trend directions, help to bring innovation to both product and fabric development.

We provide a dedicated proactive design resource to work with your commercial teams, exploring and developing the seasonal trends, mutually generating innovative and commercial products.

Flexibility is our key factor that ensures we can meet any apparel manufacturing challenges, from the stylish classic to the cool and technical apparel, in all shapes and sizes and to suit any age range.

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MANUFACTURING BASE. Our group strategy is to maintain a broad customer base, with an emphasis on key major retailers and brands in Europe and North America.

Our goal with all customers, is to be one of their key suppliers in casual and performance outerwear and to work across the different product areas with initial emphasis on baby and childrenswear, followed by strong growth into menswear and ladieswear.

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We understand the significance of fabric development for our products in the fast moving world of fashion and development programme with key fabric supplier’s mills, and global trend fairs translating the new season styles and innovations into commercial and affordable fabrics.

This helps us understand the latest performance requirements of fabrics within outerwear business and offer our customer base an apparel solution to every style.

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SAMPLING. Our sampling facility focuses on providing fast response, optimum choice and superior quality to every garment.

We acheive this by having highly skilled personnel working with the latest hi-tech machinery in a hub activity, employing creativity and flair.

Our sample room results in rapid turnaround and constant development for many leading brands.

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Our teams of specialist international garment technicians are the essential link between the design, the pattern room and the product development, working closely to maintain consistency and high standards across all product categories.

We ensure garments adhere to global standards of quality and sizing specifications, fit and construction from development samples through to the final production stage.

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TESTING. We ensure that our testing facilities are our priority. We have superior machinery and technology to cover all aspects of the garment industry, including fabric colour and strength testing and including all care aspects of washing, wear and durability monitoring.

Our vigorous process allow us to work with the customer to achieve the quality and sustainability of their products and brand.

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QUALITY CONTROL. Our quality assurance programme follows an order from its inception to its delivery.

The factory inspectors carry out a rigorous quality and safety check on all incoming fabric.

The storage facilities ensure that the fabric and accessories remain in optimum condition throughout. At the cutting stage, our qualified technicians carry out initial construction method tests and the production quality team are ever vigilant to ensure that the perfect needle point is maintained. On completion all garments undergo final inspection by our needle-check machines.

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PRODUCTION. With owned factories and fully audited manufacturing facilities within the Jiangsu region of central China, Qingdao and Cambodia, we are capable of reliably outputting large volumes and styles of apparel all year-round, fully utilising the production capacities, and representing the outstanding values that are achievable for the global customer base.

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SAFETY. The safety and quality aspect of all our garment production is a key aspect of the CWI Holdings policy.

We have a modern safety centre which proves to be key for the high standards, care and attention we put into the process, ensuring no metal, broken needles or quality issues are allowed to affect the final received products.

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The versatile group design and manufacturing facilities are focused on developing stylish womens and young contemporary outerwear, swimwear and activewear for some of the leading fashion brands of the world.

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CWI Holdings offers a full service in the development, design and production of menswear, high performance technical apparel and the latest fashion styles for many markets.

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GIRLS. Specialising in the latest youth trend research and development CWI Holdings can create bespoke styles or translate the customers concept into quality fashionable styles for many varying size ranges.

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PRODUCT SELECTION BOYS. Our extensive range of fashionable apparel for boys demonstrates our strength in manufacturing and designing for every season for the leading global brands.

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BABIES. We offer a wide range of sizes and selection of baby styles, from trendy one-piece wear, to comfortable licensed apparel, all with the assurance of our impeccable safety and quality as a priority.

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PRODUCT SELECTION

LEISUREWEAR PANTS & SHORTS. Specialising in the latest leisurewear product development for swimwear, we are experienced and focused in creating bespoke styles and graphic prints, translating the customer’s branded designs into samples and large volume production.

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ACTIVE & OUTDOOR. We specialise in leading the way in our manufacturing and insight into the functional sports outerwear market. With teams of international designers, latest construction techniques, fabric development and own brand collections, we can offer tailor made solutions for customer own labels, ensuring the latest trend and fit for purpose approach.

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CWI Holdings have been committed to the development of public welfare, environmental protection, education and poverty eradication.

Since 1997 CWI Holdings has used its own resources and strengths, so that more people have the opportunity to understand and participate in public welfare undertakings.

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UK. Cohen & Wilks International

London Group office:

Brecrest Fashion Ltd

Aquatite House, Mabgate, Leeds LS9 7DR

2nd floor, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place,

The Point, 173-5 Cheetham Hill Road

Tel: +44 (0)113 245 0804

London, United Kingdom. WC1H 9BB

Manchester, M8 8LG

E-mail: reception@cohenandwilks.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0)20 7554 8668

Tel: +44 (0)161 828 8730

www.cohenandwilks.co.uk

CHINA. GWG-Nanjing

Shanghai

45/F, Huali International Bld, No.67, Zhujiang Road, Nanjing, China. P.C. 210008

Room 1207, BM Intercontinental Business Center,100 Yutong Road,

Tel: +86-25-84525516 - Fax: +86-25-84525517 E-mail: info@gwgmts.com ç‘ž

Shanghai 200070, China Tel: 021-52288030 Fax: 021-52288038