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Bulgaria and Romania sit next to Turkey inside the EU supply story. Importers and brands in Sofia, Plovdiv, Bucharest and Cluj often search private label clothing manufacturer Turkey, Romanian haine en gros turcia / haine turcesti en gros, or Bulgarian дамски дрехи на едро от Турция and турски дрехи на едро. This guide is for those buyers who need Erasko Tekstil to produce their women's collection in Merter — labels, samples and road shipping into the EU — not a ready wholesale brand.
Istanbul is a short road journey from the Bulgarian border — practical when your search was haine en gros turcia or турски дрехи на едро but your real need is a private label factory with samples. Bulgarian interest in more formal women's looks has been rising; send the silhouette you sell (suit, dress or trousers) and your own size chart — including any extended sizes your shops already carry — rather than assuming a standard run. For a buyer in Bulgaria, goods can arrive by truck without a sea leg. For Romania, the road continues through Bulgaria. That distance changes how you can buy. Instead of ordering a whole season in one shipment months in advance, you can order closer to the season, test a style, and repeat what sells.
Trade is also simpler than many first-time buyers expect. Turkey and the EU have a customs union for industrial goods, and clothing falls under it. Goods that are in free circulation in Turkey normally travel with an A.TR movement certificate. Your forwarder or customs broker will confirm exactly which documents your shipment needs and how VAT is handled when the goods arrive in Bulgaria or Romania.
Private label means your brand goes in the garment, and in the EU the label carries more than a logo. Textile products sold to consumers in the EU must show their fibre composition, and that information must be in the official language of the country where the product is sold. For Bulgaria that means Bulgarian, and for Romania it means Romanian. If you sell in both countries, you can ask for labels that carry both languages.
Send the label text with your brief: your brand name, the fibre composition, care symbols, the size and any information your retailers ask for. Erasko sews your labels into the garment during production, so the stock arrives ready for the shop floor. If you are not sure what your labels must show, ask your customs broker or a local adviser before the sample is approved, because changing labels after production is slow and costly.
Erasko Tekstil has made women's ready-to-wear in Istanbul since 1980. It produces dresses, blouses, trousers, skirts, suits, knitwear and similar styles under the buyer's label. You choose the fabric and the colour, and the patterns are prepared from your direction. The work runs through four teams: pattern and design, production planning, sewing and ironing, and packing and shipping.
The warehouse holds more than 100 fabric types, including woven, knitted and cotton cloth. If you need a specific colour for your collection, the chosen fabric can be dyed at a dyehouse before cutting. If you have a reference garment instead of a technical file, the design team can start from that.
Brief. Send the style, your size chart, the fabric you want, the label text and the country you sell in.
Fabric and colour. Choose from the fabric stock, or ask for a specific cloth and a dyed colour.
Sample. Erasko makes a sample and waits for your written approval before bulk production. Check the fit, the fabric in daylight, and the labels. This is the moment to ask for changes.
Production. The approved style is cut and sewn to your size chart, with your labels.
Quality check. Before packing, the quality team checks thread ends, pressing, sizes and the shipment.
Shipping. Goods are packed and handed to your forwarder for the road journey to Bulgaria or Romania.
Price, quantity and timing are confirmed for each style after Erasko sees the brief. A fair answer depends on the fabric, the details and the season, so a general number would not help you plan.
Use your own size chart, built from what sells in your shops or what your retailers return. Do not assume that a Turkish or Western European size 40 will fit your customer the same way. Send your measurements per size, and check the sample against them. Sewing follows the size chart you set, so getting it right at the start saves problems later.
Ask for the company name and full address, and visit if you can. Ask for a sample before the bulk order. Agree the size chart, the label text and the packing in writing. Ask who checks quality and what they check. Be cautious with any supplier that quotes a price before seeing the style, or says yes to every category and quantity. A manufacturer that asks about your fabric, sizes and labels first is planning your order properly.
Private label is the right path when you have your own brand, your own size chart and a clear idea of the collection. If you run a single boutique and want finished pieces without designing your own line, Erasko's women's ready-to-wear brand Cotiful sells a ready collection for shops in the Balkans and Europe.
Erasko Tekstil is at Mehmet Nesih Özmen Mah. Alaybey Sokak No: 14/1, Güngören-Merter, Istanbul. Buyers from Bulgaria and Romania can visit to see fabrics and discuss a collection in person, or start by sending the brief in English. Read also our guide for Serbian importers and the overview of women's clothing manufacturing for Balkan importers.
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