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Activity 05
An in-house import and export operation. We buy cloth from established mills in India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia, and bring it into the United Arab Emirates.
What this activity does
This is the oldest activity in the house and the one the others learned from. It is a trade. We hold the relationships, take the position and carry the risk. We own no factories and we do not manufacture, and several of the mills we buy from have worked with us for more than two decades. The judgement that matters here is about cloth, about which supplier is reliable for which quality, and about what a shipment will really cost once it has landed.
A trading business is judged on a few simple things: whether the cloth matches the specification, whether it arrives when it was promised, and whether the price still works once freight, duty and handling have been counted. Everything in this activity is arranged around those three questions.
We buy on our own account, which means we carry the position and the risk. That is also why our opinion about a mill is worth something. We are not paid a commission for making an introduction, and a poor lot costs us before it costs anyone else.
Operating record
When a single source is interrupted, the work is to move volume across the other origins quickly enough to protect the season and to hold the landed cost close to where it was. Long relationships in several countries are what make that possible at short notice.
How an engagement works
We agree what is actually needed, including the specification, the quantity, the date and the destination, and write it down before anything is ordered.
Samples approved, the order placed, quality checked before shipment, and the shipment followed through customs to arrival.
A relationship that works is repeated, so the second order runs more smoothly than the first and the third more smoothly still.
What moves
Common questions
No. We buy finished and semi-finished textile goods from independent mills in India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia, and sell them on. The trade has run since 1989, and it has never owned production.
No. Kaelo Global is a trading business instead of a manufacturer. We buy on our own account and sell on, and we do not run production for other companies.
We have one office in Dubai. Production sits with long-standing mill partners across Asia, held to the same standard since 1989, and the trade and export work is done in-house.
With a short conversation that is confidential, free of charge and places you under no obligation. We reply to every enquiry within two working days.
Commercial quantities for apparel production, agreed order by order. We would rather decline an order than accept one we cannot serve properly.
Often, yes, if we can see the specification and a sample. Where the right mill for it sits outside our network, we will say so instead of trying anyway.
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Tell us what you are looking for and we will reply within two working days.
