Yes, Indian garment factories routinely apply buyer branding as part of the order. Woven labels, care labels, hang tags, barcode stickers and polybags can either be supplied by you or printed locally to your artwork, and the factory attaches them during finishing and packing so that the garments arrive ready for your warehouse or shelf. The work is standard, but it only comes out right when the artwork, placement and packing instructions are agreed in writing before production starts.
What the factory can apply
- Main woven labels at the neck or waistband, with your brand name and size.
- Care and content labels, printed or woven, with fibre content, care symbols and country of origin.
- Hang tags attached with a plastic or string swift tag at the position you specify.
- Barcode or price stickers on the hang tag or polybag, printed from your data file.
- Polybags, individually or by set, with a printed suffocation warning where your market requires it.
- Size stickers on the polybag and carton labels with style, colour, size and quantity.
Supplying versus printing locally
Supplying labels yourself gives you total control over quality and brand consistency, which matters for the main label your customer sees. The cost is freight, customs clearance and time, and a label shipment that arrives late holds up the whole order. Buyers who sell through retailers with strict ticketing rules often supply hang tags and barcodes for this reason.
Printing locally is faster and cheaper, and label printers in the main garment clusters produce good woven and printed labels to international artwork. For care labels, size labels and plain polybags this is usually the sensible route. Approve a physical sample of every locally printed item before bulk, and check the care symbols and fibre content wording against the rules in your market, because an error here is a critical defect.
Placement and packing instructions
Write a packing and labelling instruction sheet for each order and attach it to the purchase order. It should show, with a diagram, where each label sits, which side of the hang tag faces out, how the garment is folded, the polybag size, the suffocation warning wording, and how many pieces go in each carton by size and colour. Retailers often supply their own version of this, and it should be passed to the factory unchanged.
Barcodes are a common source of trouble. Send the data as a file rather than retyping it, check the first printed stickers with a scanner, and keep the sticker position consistent across the order so that your warehouse can scan without unpacking.
Polybag warnings deserve a line of their own. Most markets expect a suffocation warning in a set minimum type size on any bag large enough to cover a child's head, and the factory will print it if you state the wording and size on the instruction sheet.
How Creston & Co helps
We check labels, tags, stickers and polybags against your instruction sheet at the final inspection, scan a sample of barcodes, and confirm carton markings before loading. Where labels are supplied by you, we confirm their arrival at the factory and the quantity received. A free 20-minute sourcing review is a good time to go through your labelling requirements before the first order.