Piece by piece, pile by pile, we will demonstrate how you can re-use excess stuff. Our mission will be to make a difference by designing beautiful products that people will love, to find new homes around the world for excess stuff and to support the work of community organizations through recycling. 10 billion pounds (4.5 […]
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Looking to get better, more productive relationships with buyers? Want to get more buyers interested in your credential clothing, mixed rags or other used products? Want to increase sales overall, with more repeat business? Here are some tips that will help position you better in your process with buyers, increasing your return on investment
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Having a baler for mixed rags and credential clothing is a minimum requirement for working with used clothing buyers and brokers like Bank & Vogue. This investment can seem like an intimidating one, but identifying the means available to optimize your investment is often all it takes to expose your business to the potential value
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When baling, storing, and shipping mixed rags and credential clothing, donated shoes can be a challenge. You can’t process shoes with fabric clothing, as balers will utterly compromise the integrity of even canvas shoes, let alone high-heels. Left without any apparent option, many charity and for-profit clothing resellers will simply throw them away. But with the right
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Some Bank & Vogue sellers of mixed rags and credential clothing capture up to 25% of their yearly revenue through partnership with our company. And yours can do the same. Doing so is a matter of maximizing the value recieved for credential clothing/mixed rags, and minimizing the costs required to sell them. Here’s how to do
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In the first 3 months following the Holiday season, retailers process approximately 60% of the entire year’s store returns. Unable to sell them outside of this season, they are left with little choice but to sell their returned stock in bulk. Clothing, furniture, toys; almost every consumer product imaginable becomes available at jaw-dropping discounts to businesses
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Your store or charity receives donations, and sorts through them to find that approximately only 20% of items are fit to sell in store. These products are put into store shelves, and rotated every 3-4 weeks if unsold. The majority of donations that do not make it to store shelves, as well as those that
Loading a shipping container is just as much an art as it is a science. For those new or unfamiliar to the task, maximizing the efficiency of available space, protecting the integrity of your goods, all while respecting container rules regulations can be extremely difficult! Fortunately, Bank & Vogue is here to help with the
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Reverse logistics is a complex field, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t simple ways you can improve the efficiency of your reverse logistics systems and infrastructure. Find out how to boost profit margins by considering these tips to fine-tune your reverse supply chain logistics processing with Bank & Vogue.
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Bank & Vogues primary service is purchasing collected clothing that cannot be processed by charities, non-profits, and for-profit re-sellers. But the full work our partners have access to goes considerably further than that. Bank & Vogue provides a ‘full package’ of services tailored to the unique needs, wants, and expectations of the clothing collection and reselling industry.
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