Jane Clarkson, Nike Intl Ltd., Materials Director, Asia Pacific Apparel
I found it very informative. It’s the only forum that I’ve ever attended here in Hong Kong that really has a global perspective, and the subject matter’s really relevant today. So all in all, there’re a lot to take away, and I plan to come back.
Craig Dana, Ann Taylor Sourcing Far East Ltd., MD, SVP
Prime Source Forum is excellent. It’s great. It’s a once-a-year opportunity for everyone in the industry to get together to exchange ideas, challenges and opportunities. So as always, I think the Forum is excellent.
Tobias Fischer, H & M Hennes & Mauritz (Far East) Ltd., Regional CSR Manager Far East
I’m impressed by how well-organized the Forum is, and I think the discussions attending have been very interesting. There’re some really good discussions . I also realized what a good opportunity it is to network with people within the business.
Janet Fox, JCPenney Purchasing Corp. Inc., Director of Sourcing
Every year, Prime Source Forum brings a new perspective to what’s going on in the world and brings a lot of different countries together with a lot of different viewpoints, and as always a lot of excitement ... Companies that are looking for new unique products and new unique raw materials are really able to find them here at Prime Source Forum.
Rene Frei, Nike Inc., Global Product Operation Director – Sportswear
We’ve been coming to Prime Source Forum every year not only to connect to senior industry leaders but also because of the quality of the panel discussions, the presentations and the general workshops. We find the discussions to be very insightful, inspiring and also very educational. I hope that this Forum will grow to be able to drive apparel- and textile-industry standards particularly on the compliance, social responsibility and sustainability side. Therefore, we’ll definitely come back every year, because it’s one of the issues that drives the apparel and textile industry as a whole.
Stuart Harbinson, Winston & Strawn LLP, Senior Trade Policy Advisor
I think it’s an excellent event. I met people from all four corners of the world, and I think the timing is absolutely brilliant because there’re so many changes taking place in the world now. I think it’s really the best time that you could possibly choose to bring this major gathering together. I’m delighted to be back again this year.
Joachin Hensch, HUGO BOSS AG, Head of Pattern Design Department; Intl Association of Clothing Designers and Executives, President
So far I’m very interested and very inspired, I have to say. It’s a variety of presentations and there’s not one day where you can learn something that is exactly the same thing as today. As I said, it’s also the keynote speaker who was amazing, and eye-opening. The discussions have quite a lot of content, so it’s very nice; and this is my first time here, so I really enjoyed it.
Fazlul Hoque, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association, President; Knit Square Group and Plummy Fashions Ltd., Chairman & MD
This is very eventful, fruitful and beneficial to everybody because there are people across the world who came here so we could share our own ideas and gather new ideas from other people ... Another thing about Prime Source Forum is that it is a nice platform for networking. As a manufacturer, I can gain benefits toward doing business in the future. In all, it’s excellent!
Justin Huang, Taiwan Textile Federation, Secretary General
Prime Source Forum has been recognised as one of the most important conferences in Asia and the world due to the knowledge it provides for the apparel industry in this region. Of course, the players / manufacturers in the apparel industry are not here to learn, but you can still use this platform to share your experiences with others.
Jim Jackson, Australian Wool Innovation Limited, General Manager of Product Development and Commercialisation
It’s my first time here. Prime Source Forum is a big event with complicated subjects. Here we can get so much information in one go. This is my impression so far. I learned more in one hour than I did in the past three years by reading and talking to individual people, so I feel it’s worthwhile and beneficial.
Roger Lee, TAL Apparel Ltd., COO
I think we got a very good opening keynote speech from Andrew Wu from LVMH. It has really given us a great insight into the history of China and the potential future, especially for all the retailers and brands from the world. China is definitely one of the future growth areas in the world market, and the insight we receive concerning how it is going to be in the future benefits everyone attending. Overall I think this is a great experience for people attending and listening, and it’s going to be a lot more interesting in the upcoming sessions.
Willy Lin, Chairman, Textile Council of Hong Kong, Milo’s Knitwear (Intl) Ltd., MD
I think it’s very interesting. I think it was like last year with great audiences, and there’ll be a lot of interesting comments from the audience and ... we need more dialogues between the audience and the speakers. I’ve been here every year, and it’s very good for the industry, because we need to have a voice that our government would hopefully love to listen to. Our buyers would listen to it; suppliers would listen to it; and hopefully we all can learn something more every year.
Robert McKee, Lawson Software, Inc., Industry Strategy Director, Fashion
It’s been very good so far. I presume it can only get better. The presentation we just had from the Keynote Speaker was great. It was very, very good. Everyone can benefit just from having a place for good communications and good collaboration. place for people to exchange ideas and thoughts.
Markus Naumann, Sinotech Asia Ltd., Sales Director
We’re Groz-Beckert, ... offering parts and tools pretty much for every single process in the apparel-making industry, and therefore we found the Prime Source Forum very valuable to us as we can hear prime decision-makers and industry leaders, and we can talk to them and try to sense any kind of changes in the sourcing behaviour around the world and then use this knowledge back home to better allocate or efficiently use our resources in terms of production or logistic as well as research & development.
Peter Pfneisl, European Apparel and Textile Confederation, President; Eybl Austria GmbH, Authorised Signatory
It’s my first time to come to the Prime Source Forum but I’m really, really impressed to see how many people attended this Forum and the very high level of speakers ... My congratulations to all for the very good work.
George Powell, R.E. Newed Group, CEO
I am very impressed. In fact, the Keynote Speech was a walk through China and everything that has taken place in the last 20-30 years. It was extraordinarily enlightening and very useful – especially to the US businessman. So very earlier on in the conference, it has already been very enlightening, so I’ve enjoyed it. I was here last year as well and the reason I came back was because I picked up a lot of good contacts, met some nice people and wanted to come back and be enlightened again. I’ll be back next year and will bring some of my colleagues with me as well.
Rene Rodriguez, Jockey Far East Ltd., Director of Raw Materials Sourcing
This Prime Source, I think it is an excellent, excellent meeting. You don’t have many of these meetings around the world. It’s one of the few where you can gather all of these panels to discuss all the issues related to trade agreements, related to innovation. It just touches every topic, and the good thing is the differences of opinion. So you could … listen to the debate that is going on. I think it’s great. You learn a lot from both perspectives. Even if you come here with your opinion and you hear all the topics – all the opinions – and it makes you think maybe … you will change your opinion or join them. So it’s good, very good.
Jason Wang, Alvanon, Inc., COO
We’re the elite sponsor for the Prime Source Forum, and we’ve been doing it a few years now. As for this year, we think the participation is very good. I personally enjoyed a lot of the Forum topics, and found them very interesting. Hope to see this continued in the future.
Peter Wong, SBS Intl Development Ltd., General Manager
It’s good. There’re many of our target clients who came here to join the Forum. So I think the Forum is a good platform for us. Garment accessories suppliers and clients can get together to share their experience.
