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Textiles & Apparel Executive Search

Textiles & Apparel

Industrial textiles and consumer apparel support global fashion supply chains, covering functional fabrics, ready-to-wear, circular textile production and cross-border garment logistics. Rising sustainability requirements and tight environmental standards lead to shortages of senior technical and management talent for eco-fiber R&D, intelligent manufacturing, brand merchandising and global supply chain governance. Traditional recruitment struggles to secure top textile and fashion experts, delaying product iteration and international brand expansion.

FORESTOWN provides global senior talent consulting for Textiles & Apparel, serving fabric manufacturers, fashion groups, OEM/ODM plants and cross-border distributors. Our textile and fashion experts deliver integrated services including vertical talent mapping, production capability assessment, trade compliance audits and full onboarding to accelerate core team construction and optimize fashion-scenario talent matching.

As a cross-border textile and fashion strategic partner, we utilize in-depth consumption insights and global supply chain resources to help enterprises build elite R&D, supply chain and marketing teams and fill senior industry talent gaps. Our customized executive talent plans match clients’ overseas production layouts and sustainable textile development strategies, promoting low-carbon, intelligent and brand-driven development of the worldwide textiles and apparel industry.

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Industry Landscape

Green low-carbon transformation and global layout of the Textiles & Apparel full industrial chain

Rapid iteration in recycled functional fabrics, intelligent apparel production, wearable textile materials and D2C cross-border fashion brands

Intense competition for textile material R&D, apparel product design, global supply chain and brand operation executives

Need for leaders with cross-border factory governance, international textile trade compliance and fashion market strategic alignment

Our Expertise

Subsectors We Cover

1. Functional & Industrial Textiles, Technical Fabrics and High-performance Fiber Materials
2. Spin, Weave, Dye & Finish Full-process Textile Raw Material Production
3. High-end Fashion Apparel, Casual Wear, Sportswear and Functional Protective Clothing
4. Garment OEM / ODM Manufacturing, Intelligent Apparel Production Lines
5. Sustainable Recycled Textiles, Eco-friendly Dyeing Materials & Circular Production
6. Cross-border Apparel Distribution, Fashion Brand Operation & Global Retail Channel Management

Key Roles We Place

1. CEO, COO, CTO, CFO, Chief Brand Officer (CBO), Chief Supply Chain Officer
2. VP of Textile Material R&D, Fabric Process Engineering & Functional Product Design
3. VP of Garment Manufacturing, Intelligent Factory Operation & Production Quality Control
4. VP of Global Apparel Marketing, Overseas Channel BD & Cross-border Brand Expansion
5. Senior Director of Textile Trade Compliance, Fashion Merchandising & Product Industrialization
6. Transnational Textile Production Base & Global Apparel Regional Operation Leadership

Our advantage

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74 Across 74 countries

Forestown is a professional company of global high-end talent search and enterprise consulting services. It has its own strong knowledge base and global talent knowledge network, and its business covers 74 countries such as America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

5000 global partner client

Forestown serves 5000 customers in 74 countries, and more than 1000 customers have established long-term and stable human resources strategic partnerships to help domestic enterprises introduce overseas talents, and at the same time recommend domestic talents to develop overseas.

10 working languages

Forestown consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world. 45% of professional consultants can work bilingually. The language types involve: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish 10 languages.

Exclusive Talent Pool

Forestown has independently developed and operates an advanced Pipeline Management System within China’s executive search sector. To date, the platform has assembled nearly ten million mid-to-senior industry professionals spanning management, marketing, investment, technology, finance, human resources and other disciplines, covering talent at Manager, Director and General Manager levels.

Senior Advisory Team

Forestown employs a cohort of professional consultants with annual placement value exceeding one million RMB, alongside top-tier specialists boasting placement volumes surpassing ten million RMB. We successfully deliver over one thousand executive search assignments each year. Our consulting team comprises professionals from diverse industries and multicultural backgrounds worldwide, holding academic qualifications ranging from bachelor’s to doctoral degrees.

24 Hour Service

The consultant teams of the three branches of the Forestown can cross time zones, and the three time zones can continuously serve customers 24 hours a day, and fully guarantee the speed and quality of service results.

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Our Executive Search Process

Brief & Industry Analysis

Target Mapping & Talent Intelligence

Assessment & Technical Validation

Shortlist & Stakeholder Alignment

Onboarding & Retention Support

Success Stories

Global Brand Merchandising VP Hire for an International High-End Textile & Apparel Group

Global Brand Merchandising VP Hire for an International High-End Textile & Apparel Group

Client Industry Textiles & Apparel Challenge Client faced critical gaps in hiring a senior commercial executive with deep fashion brand positioning, global apparel supply chain management and cross-border retail channel operation expertise, with scarce compound executives familiar with sustainable textile product layout. Solution We executed a retained, cross-border executive search, leveraging our fashion and textile industry C-level elite network to target, interview and verify high-calibre passive management candidates with global brand operation experience. Result Successfully placed the ideal candidate in 7.9 weeks, aligning with the client’s high-end apparel brand globalization and eco-friendly textile product promotion roadmap, with a retention rate of 100% post-onboarding.

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