New Vietnam Sourcing Report: Lawn & Garden Offers Buyers More Sourcing Opportunities from Quality Suppliers

Philippines, Malaysia, July 08, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The non-profit Kearny Alliance (http://www.kearnyalliance.org) has released the Vietnam Sourcing Report: Lawn & Garden (http://www.chinasourcingreports.com/csr/vietnam-lawn-garden) with the support of its partner in development, Global Sources (http://www.globalsources.com), to offer buyers qualified manufacturers to complement their supply base.

Products offered by featured makers include planters, pots, sculpture, fountains, lamps, paving stones and garden sets.

The report’s release is timed with Global Sources’ Private Sourcing Event (http://www.PrivateSourcingEvents.com) that will bring some of the world’s biggest buyers face-to-face with Vietnam suppliers on July 15 and 16 in Ho Chi Minh City.

“Many buyers are looking to Vietnam as a complementary source market to China. For certain products, Vietnam offers competitive prices and advantages in craftsmanship, design and abundant indigenous materials,” said Alexander Boome, program director of the non-profit Kearny Alliance (http://www.kearnyalliance.org), which produced the report in partnership with Global Sources.

“This report – and the big-name buyers planning to participate in the Private Sourcing Events – are evidence of Vietnam’s growing potential as a key supply base,” Boome said. “This bodes well for the people of Vietnam, as increased buyer demand will create sustainable jobs.”

Big buyers set to meet face-to-face with selected suppliers from the report
Buyers with combined annual sales of $184 billion scheduled to meet Vietnam suppliers at the Private Sourcing Event are:
* Sears – the US’s fourth largest broadline retailer
* ICA Group – one of the Nordic region’s leading retail companies
* ARENA – an alliance of 10 independent home improvement chain stores from Europe and around the world
* 360 Sourcing – one of the U.S.’s leading global sourcing firms
* METRO Group – the world’s third largest retailing companies in Germany

“Private Sourcing Events help buyers spread risk by diversifying their supply base, and to pinpoint suppliers capable of adding value through design, flexibility and innovation,” Boome said. “They truly open doors to new orders and long-term business relationships.”

Sourcing report backed by in-factory visits with experienced exporters
The Kearny Alliance team visited each profiled supplier in person. The report offers details about supplier capability, and production, price and market forecasts for Vietnam’s lawn and garden industry. The Vietnam Lawn & Garden report features profiles of 39 manufacturers, plus descriptions, prices and packaging details for 173 popular export products.

Suppliers note that buyers today are most interested in products that are both functional and decorative. Of the lawn and garden makers surveyed for the report:
* 56 percent anticipate export sales to stay the same;
* 48 percent plan to target the EU market
* 61 percent expect they will hold export quotes this year; and,
* 21 percent expect to lower quotes.

One supplier featured in the Report, Diem Bui, vice director of Vinh Tra Pottery, said: “As most of the OEM orders buyers placed with us are timeless designs with basic colors, we will focus on this trend to attract business. We expect that our website on Global Sources Online and exposure in the Developing County Sourcing Report will give us much broader buyer exposure.”

The Vietnam Sourcing Report: Lawn & Garden is one of a series of Developing Country Sourcing Reports. Free previews and ordering information to purchase online are available at: http://kearnyalliance.org/sourcingreports/index.aspx

Other Developing Country Sourcing Reports available for purchase and immediate download are:
* Vietnam reports: Fashion Accessories, Lacquerware, Indoor & Outdoor Furniture
* Philippines reports: Fashion Jewelry, Christmas Decorations, Indoor & Outdoor Furniture
* Indonesia reports: Indoor & Outdoor Furniture, Footwear
* Southeast Asia report: Indoor & Outdoor Furniture

About The Kearny Alliance
The Kearny Alliance (http://www.kearnyalliance.org), a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) foundation based in Scottsdale, Arizona, partners with other international organizations to further its mission of ‘Aid through Trade’, to advance international development and poverty alleviation through trade-related business education, training and applied research.

About Global Sources
Global Sources (http://www.globalsources.com) is a leading business-to-business media company and a primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business uses English-language media to facilitate trade from Greater China to the world. The other business segment utilizes Chinese-language media to enable companies to sell to, and within Greater China.

The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 803,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over 240 countries.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 4.3 million products and more than 196,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 12 specialized trade shows which run 29 times a year across 10 cities.

Suppliers receive more than 67 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online (http://www.globalsources.com) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 38 years. Global Sources' network covers more than 69 cities worldwide. In mainland China, Global Sources has over 2,500 team members in more than 40 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.

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