Development partner · Activewear · SGN · VN
Product development and sourcing in Vietnam for small sports brands — a development partner, not a sourcing agent.
The usual wayA shoe can pass through four suppliers before it ships. A tee, five. Most small brands manage them alone, over chat apps, across time zones.
With a hubWe take the other end of every one of those conversations. You talk to one contact, for every factory.
How a product reaches you
Every part passes through one hub.
Scroll this section into view to watch a sample go from factory to brand.
Five steps, one thread.
- STEP-01
Talk
A short call about your product, your quantity and your timeline.
Product · quantity · timeline - STEP-02
Match
We research Vietnamese factories that make your type of product at your volume, and tell you honestly if it’s a fit.
Type · volume · fit - STEP-03
First sample
The factory builds it from your tech pack; we check it in person before it ships to you.
Tech pack · build · check - STEP-04
Revise and approve
We collect your feedback, translate it into fixes the factory can act on, and track each round until the sample is approved.
Feedback · fixes · rounds - STEP-05
Hand-off to production
We confirm materials, sizes and the approved reference sample, so the first run matches what you signed off.
Materials · sizes · reference
Who is behind this
Big-brand habits, small-brand runs.
We come from the product side of a global sports brand: footwear materials, testing shoes and soft goods, and the daily back-and-forth between design, production and quality teams.
From the inside, you see how a big brand gets a shoe right. Materials are tested before anyone cuts. Every sample is measured against the spec. Someone is at the factory when it matters. Small brands rarely get any of that. They get a chat thread, a time-zone gap and a sample that doesn’t match the tech pack.
Saigon Sourcing Hub brings those habits to small sports brands in the US, Europe and Australia: from tech pack to approved sample, and a Vietnamese factory that fits a small first run. Footwear first, apparel and soft goods too.
We’re Vietnamese, based in Ho Chi Minh City close to the factories, and we check samples in person before they ship to you. We’re new, so we take on a small number of early projects and give each one our full attention.
Where we help
- Footwear development
- From tech pack to approved sample.
- Finding the right factory
- One that makes your kind of shoe, at your quantity.
- Sample checks and feedback
- We inspect samples in person and turn your comments into one clear, numbered, photo-based sheet for the factory.
- Materials and testing
- What to test, and what the reports actually say.
- Apparel and soft goods
- The same sample checks and materials know-how, for smaller apparel lines alongside your footwear.
Guides for first-time makers.
- GUIDE-01● Read
How to find shoe manufacturers in Vietnam: a guide for small brands
Where Vietnam's shoe factories are, six ways to find them, what to send before you ask for a quote, and the questions that sort a good fit from a bad one.
- GUIDE-02● Read
Shoe MOQ in Vietnam: what small brands should expect
Typical minimum order quantities at Vietnamese shoe factories, what the minimum is really counted on, and seven ways small brands start below it.
- GUIDE-03● Read
Shoe sample rounds: how long they take and what to check at each
A realistic timeline from tech pack to approved shoe sample, the names of each sample round, and a checklist for reviewing a sample before you send comments.
Book a sample call
Building your first or next shoe?
We’d like to hear about it.
- Los Angeles
- New York
- London
- Amsterdam
- Melbourne
- Saigon
We reply within one working day (Vietnam time, UTC+7).
- Duration
- 20 min
- Gate
- Video call
- Seat
- Any time zone
- Status
- ● Open