public source · not yet founder-confirmed · Dec 2021 · 🇻🇳 Vietnam (Da Nang) · Manufacturing · founding team
Low-minimum clothing manufacturing in Da Nang
A factory that takes small orders; the first customers were referred by one old friend in Australia, and the local market turned out to be the wrong one.
- Business
- Clothing manufacturer with low minimum order quantities (Yoke Apparel Manufacturing)
- Founder
- Jesse James (with his wife)
- Started
- June 2019
- Start-up capital
- US$20,000
- Revenue
- US$23,000/month (December 2021); about US$276k/year
- Team
- 30 employees (2021)
Numbers are ranges or the figure the source published; we never publish a founder's documents.
Source, pinpointed
Starter Story — We Moved To Vietnam And Started A $276K/Year Clothing Manufacturing Business
founder interview (Starter Story) · Dec 2021
Cross-check: no second public source found yet; a Starter Story or press snippet is added when one exists.
First customers — the part nobody publishes
Channel: A friend's referral, then his referrals
What didn't work: Serving the local Vietnamese market (uncompetitive); early fabric, pattern and sizing mistakes.
“A good friend in Australia that I hadn't spoken with for a long time contacted me about making stuff for his company. From that, he referred most of our original customers.”
Starter Story, December 2021: the founders moved to Vietnam, hired at-risk local women through community partners, and were running within fifteen days. Servicing Vietnam locally was uncompetitive; international small-batch orders were the business.
Would it work in…
The same idea, other markets — our read from the database's country filters, not a forecast.
- Jakarta — likely — Bandung's garment cluster is the equivalent
- Manila — maybe — labour cost higher, export logistics thinner
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