Sourcing Guides: Suppliers, Authenticity and Buying Routes

By the Global StockLot sourcing team · Updated October 2026 · 1 min read · Request a quote

What separates a supplier worth ordering from one that is not?

Verifiable provenance, a bank account in the company's registered name, willingness to be inspected, and candour about what they cannot do. The last one predicts the relationship better than any certificate.

A supplier who tells you a size ratio is broken, a lead time will slip, or a category is outside their competence is a supplier whose other statements are worth something. Uniform enthusiasm is not a good sign.

In this section

• Is clothing made in Bangladesh genuine? — what genuine surplus is, how it differs from counterfeit, and the checks that separate them before you pay.
• Branded surplus — legitimate overrun stock against replica goods, and the customs consequences of getting it wrong.
• Buying house or direct factory — what each adds, how each is paid, and which suits your order size.
• Where retailers buy stock — wholesale routes compared on minimum spend, margin and risk.
• Bangladesh compared with other origins — where each origin genuinely wins, including where Bangladesh does not.
• Visiting a garment factory — what to look at, and the questions whose answers reveal whether production is really in-house.
• Which brands manufacture in Bangladesh — what drives the concentration, and what it means for a smaller buyer.

Where does supplier choice fit when sourcing from Bangladesh?

The checks in these guides apply to us as much as to anyone else, and we would rather you ran them. Buyers who want to settle the question completely are welcome to visit and inspect in person.