Baler Buying Guide – Maximizing The Value Of Your Investment
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 […]
Dealing With Donated Shoes – Capturing Cashflow
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 […]
Optimize Cashflow From Mixed Rags and Credential Clothing
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 […]
Sourcing Wholesale Store Returned Merchandise With Bank & Vogue
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 […]
Selling Your Mixed Rags With Bank & Vogue – Cashflow for Charity and Second Hand Clothing Retailers
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 – 3 Principles To Remember
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 […]
4 Tips to Improve the Efficiency of Reverse Logistics Processing
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.
Working With Us – More Than Just Clothing Recycling
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. […]
Connecting Communities, Promoting Prosperity
More than just diverting millions of tonnes of textile from landfill every year, Bank & Vogue promotes the economic prosperity of local communities throughout North America and Africa. By providing the means by which North American charity, non-profit, and for-profit clothing collectors can connect with resellers in areas of economic development; humanity benefits in many ways. […]
A SMART Association For Your Business and The Environment
Bank & Vogue is hard at work to bring about a circular economy for the clothing and textile industry, working in tandem with a group of like-minded organizations to realize the benefits this idea can provide the earth, businesses, and consumers worldwide. Our association with SMART (Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles) provides our partners access […]