Independent Sourcing & Production Specialist — Knit & Woven

A ground-level buying office, in one person.

I identify the right factory for your product and manage sampling, price negotiation, quality control and order follow-up through to delivery — across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

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21+years in apparel sourcing & operations
~20Mgarments per year managed at peak
14years based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
3–4%late-delivery rate achieved, from double digits

Who I am

Until June 2026 I was Head of Global Sourcing & Operations at Original Marines, an Italian retailer producing around 20 million garments a year across South Asia and Turkey.

I built and ran the company's liaison office in Dhaka — a team of 27 handling vendor management, merchandising, quality assurance and compliance — after fourteen years living and working on the ground in Bangladesh. Today I bring that same operational structure to brands as an independent specialist: the standards and discipline of a large buying organisation, with the speed of a single point of contact.

I run this one-person office on a modern toolchain, including custom AI agents I build myself with Claude Code, so the administration around sourcing never slows the sourcing itself.

Mario Scotellaro
Mario Scotellaro

Product expertise

Circular knitting machine

Circular knit

Jersey, t-shirts, polos, fleece, sweatshirts, basics and loungewear — high-volume programmes as well as mid-sized runs.

Ribbed sweaters in a range of colours

Fully-fashioned knitwear

Sweaters, pullovers and cardigans in cotton, blends and fine gauges, from a vetted flat-knit factory base.

Denim finishing treatment

Woven

Shirts, dresses, trousers and outerwear — denim and non-denim — with full development and wash capabilities.

What I do for a brand

Factory selectionMatching your product, price point and volumes to the right factory — not the other way around.
Sampling & developmentFrom first proto to sales-sample sets, with realistic calendars and follow-through.
Price negotiationCostings built from fabric, trims and minutes — negotiated with the leverage of someone who knows the numbers.
Quality controlInline and final inspections to AQL 2.5, with root-cause follow-up rather than box-ticking.
Order follow-upProduction monitoring from fabric booking to vessel, so problems surface early enough to fix.
ComplianceFactories screened on social and ethical standards, with documentation kept current.
Garments on a sample rail

On the ground

Notes from the field

Stat graphic: 17.4%, Bangladesh's third fuel price hike this year, layered on an ongoing gas and power shortage

Bangladesh's fuel price hike lands on an already-strained garment sector

Stat graphic: Pakistan's GSP+ re-application deadline is the end of 2028, not 2027

What actually happens to Pakistan's GSP+ in 2027

Cover: most people assume Made in Egypt means Egyptian cotton, but Egypt exports raw cotton to India and imports its yarn from India too

Most people assume 'Made in Egypt' means Egyptian cotton.

Stat graphic: more than 50% of the cotton in Pakistani yarn and fabric is imported, September 2026

Pakistan imports more than half its cotton. The price follows the world market.

Stat graphic: Bangladesh RMG exports up 13.9% year on year in August 2026, down 6.3% from July

Bangladesh's August exports were up 13.9%. Down 6.3% from July.

Stat graphic: Indian yarn imports up 137% in the first six months of Bangladesh's land-port ban meant to cut them

Bangladesh banned Indian yarn at the border. Imports doubled anyway.

Stat graphic: Pakistan's transporters' strike cost an estimated $900 million in export losses, before a tariff dispute reached the Prime Minister's desk

Pakistan lost $900M to a strike. Then a tariff fight went to the PM's desk.

Stat graphic: Turkish-made garments estimated 60% pricier than East Asian equivalents, plus a 12.5% US tariff

Turkey isn't just losing on price. Now it's losing on tariffs too.

Stat graphic: nearly 50% of US fashion brands plan to cut their supplier count in the next two years

US brands are cutting suppliers. They're not leaving Asia.

Stat graphic: Pakistan readymade garment exports reach $4.18 billion in FY26

Pakistan's garment exports just hit a record. Its textile sector didn't move.

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Where I work

A supplier base built over two decades, matched to each brand's segment and price point.

Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Turkey

Contact

If there's a product where you'd like to explore alternative sourcing, it's fifteen minutes of a call well spent.