The choice of the supplier was strongly filtered thanks to well defined selection criteria. The aim is to propose a new offer in top of the range leather goods (for men as for women), more specifically handbags, for very rich Hong-Kong customers. It is compulsory to pore over:
Main criterion: made in France handbags, whose manufacturing and distribution are originally French.
High-end positioning, equivalent or even higher than well-famous leather goods companies as Luis Vuitton, Longchamp or Gucci. The aim is to choose products intended for fortunate, selective customers, appreciating imported brands without being regular to the big companies named above.
Irreproachable, traditional know-how regarding manufacturing and production of the good or range of goods chosen to export. We shall avoid recently launched products or too fanciful to be commercially viable and profitable on a totally new market, except if the company has already met success on other Asian markets with this kind of products.
Previous international experiences in import-export, and particularly in Asian markets (but obviously not in Hong-Kong). It would be estimated that the firm has certain knowledge of the peculiarities of these markets and the export procedures.
Financial stability: the company must show good track-records and business-performances in order to be able to carry out exporting certain amounts of goods.
There is no standardization for leather goods in France, on the other hand there are well and truly standards to be respected for the matters used during production, especially for leather and textile. The E.C.N (European Committee of Standardization) keeps up to date the list of the published standards for each sector, and for the leather it is the “CEN/TC 289” (see the link in the sources). It is preferable to choose a seller who makes handbags from standardized leather and other matters.
Source : http://www.cen.eu/cen/Sectors/TechnicalCommitteesWorkshops/CENTechnicalCommittees/Pages/Standards.aspx?param=6270&title=CEN/TC%20289