Corporate fashion and company clothing from China

With workwear and corporate fashion, consistency is the whole point. A polo shirt in your company colour has to look the same in batch five as in batch one: the same shade, the same fit, the same fabric weight. That needs a documented specification and a fixed reference sample, so the factory is not reinterpreting the article on every order.

We keep the approved specification and sample on file as the reference for every reorder. A follow-up order is checked against your first batch, and colour and fit deviations are part of the inspection before every shipment.

Two founders stand behind DS Trading, a German company from Hamburg: Ben Detert in Hamburg and Felix Sander, who works in China with a whole team. That team knows more than 100 producers personally. For company clothing they include a manufacturer making T-shirts, hoodies, jackets and vests for teams and companies, as well as specialists for softshell and technical trousers. When your reorder goes back to the same factory, our team can go there straight away and check whether fabric from the new dye lot matches your reference sample.

Your one European contact looks after the programme across all batches, from the first polo to the fifth reorder, and makes sure it happens. What goes on in China does not stay a black box for you: you hear when the fabric has been dyed and when the goods are loaded. We get in touch on our own, including when a lot is off in colour or a date slips. New staff need their clothing by a certain day, so we give realistic delivery dates and do everything we can to keep them.

Trust is the most important thing we have, and you know us personally. If a batch does not match the reference, we talk to you at once and come to see you. Our prices for company clothing are usually lower than sourcing yourself or using other sourcing agencies. That is because we run China and Germany ourselves, take the cheaper solution on both sides and negotiate the best possible price with the manufacturers. Every batch arrives DDP at your address, with an invoice from Germany.

Unless agreed otherwise, every batch, first order or reorder, goes through the same two on-site checks by our own team in China: a check during production and a final inspection after completion, before shipment. The reference for both is the approved sample and your specification. Consistency between batches is one of the specific points checked each time, alongside measurements, workmanship and colour.

The minimum order is 300 pieces per article. Reorders are possible from the same minimum, and staying with the same manufacturer keeps the reference sample and specification intact across every subsequent batch.

We produce polos, softshells, trousers, jackets, T-shirts and sweatshirts for workwear and corporate fashion, uncertified only. Certified personal protective equipment of categories II and III is out of scope, see the boundary below.

Fabric weight and material are set per article in the specification. We do not work from a fixed catalogue weight; the tech pack or reference article fixes the fabric for each item.

A corporate colour is bound to an approved physical reference, not just a colour number on a page. Fabric dyed in a different lot can deviate visibly from that reference, which is the main risk in a reorder programme.

Our own team checks colour against the approved reference during production and again at the final inspection before shipment, so a deviation surfaces in China rather than after delivery.

A quote for workwear is a landed cost per piece, not an isolated factory price. It brings together the following components:

No price example is shown here because workwear articles vary too much by fabric and construction; the figure is calculated for your specification.

Personal protective equipment of categories II and III, such as certified cut-resistant, high-visibility or flame-retardant workwear, is not an entry product for us. We do not start with certification-obligated protective clothing. Uncertified workwear and corporate fashion, such as polos, softshells, trousers and jackets without a mandatory protective certification, are within scope, always specified and inspected against your written requirements rather than a general promise of compliance.