Thank you for contacting us regarding manufacturing for our sportswear brand, ABK Sportswear. We are getting ready to launch in late-2015/early-2016 with a wide range of products - initially focusing on jiu jitsu themed items.
If you want us to consider your organization as a manufacturer for ABK Sportswear, then you must be willing to do ALL of the following:
1. Provide us with your full name, company name, address and contact information (telephone number, email, etc.).
2. Provide us with several references of brands that you now currently or have in the past manufactured for OFFICIALLY and LEGITIMATELY. We will check these references.
3. Send us (at your cost, including shipping) samples of items that you manufacture.
After completion of all three (3) items above, if we choose to request that you make us prototypes for ABK Sportswear, we will pay you for making those items plus shipping to us. That is no issue whatsoever. We expect to pay for prototypes and have already done so with other manufacturers.
With respect to #'s 1 and 2 above, you can contact us via Facebook or email as follows:
Facebook by clicking here.
or email by clicking here: dpothul@yahoo.com
With respect to #3 above, you can mail your samples to us at the following:
ABK Sportswear
c/o ABK Pothul
40 Kaneohe Bay Drive
Kailua, HI 96734
USA
Please do not contact us again if you are not willing to do ALL THREE of the aforementioned items.
Finally, we have been told by several manufacturers that they are unwilling to send free samples because they have done that in the past to others and after sending the samples the communication stops. Well, all we can say is this:
A. That is not us and that is not how we conduct business. We are not doing this to get free samples from you. We don't want your samples to use or sell, only to inspect for quality. And if you want us to forward them to someone else in the USA (at OUR expense), we shall once we have inspected them.
B. Giving out free samples is done in the normal course of business in the USA (and elsewhere), and is not only reasonable but expected. And if you are unwilling to do so, then please do not contact us again because if you are unwilling to invest in your business, you are not serious about your business.
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