332 fashion and textile manufacturers, ready to approach
The Fashion & textile file brings together the sector's manufacturers and contract makers across the three countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) : garment and knitwear workshops, denim specialists, socks and hosiery, footwear and small leather goods. Each is listed in an official registry, with its public contact details and a confidence score. You target one universe, whatever the country.
We are a firm based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, since 2018, in daily contact with online sellers who launch their clothing brand, have it made and import it. This directory extends that work : it was built by cross-checking the official commercial registries of Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, keeping only genuinely registered manufacturers, then removing dead websites and personal email addresses (GDPR compliance). You are not paying for a raw extract, but for a cleaned, structured and scored database. Last compiled from the official registries : 2026.
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What each record contains
Legal name and local name, official registration number (EIK in Bulgaria, CUI in Romania, MERSIS in Turkey), universe, category and sub-segment, region and city, products, white-label capability, headcount, year founded, website, generic email and phone when public, notes and sources.
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Built-in tracking columns (My status, Priority, Contacted on, Follow up on, My notes) with drop-down menus and colour coding : your directory becomes a mini prospecting CRM, filterable by country, city or universe.
Each supplier is a complete record, up to 24 data points per record. Here is an example record (redacted data) :
Illustrative preview (redacted data). Each record holds up to 24 data points plus 5 tracking columns. The real contact details are in the file delivered to buyers, never on this page. The Fashion & textile file brings together the 332 manufacturers in the sector across the three countries.
Each row is a textile manufacturer : 24 data points per record plus 5 tracking columns. Contact details masked here, complete in the delivered file.
We prefer fair expectations to a fine promise. The directory gives you qualified contacts to approach yourself, not a guarantee of an order :
- Non-exhaustive list : the directory is a qualified selection, not a census of every manufacturer. We list those we have identified and cross-checked against the official registries, and we enrich it regularly ; the absence of a specific company is therefore not a flaw in the file ;
- you contact the suppliers directly, with no intermediary and no commission ;
- responsiveness and terms (MOQ, price, lead times) belong to each manufacturer and vary ;
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Fashion & textile
The 332 textile manufacturers from the three countries, in a single file.
- Denim, knitwear, garment making, footwear
- Bulgaria · Romania · Turkey
- White label and contract making (CMT)
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- Bulgaria 835 · Romania 557 · Turkey 629
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Fashion in Eastern Europe and Turkey : from yarn to garment
Having a garment made is not a single operation but a chain : the fibre (cotton, wool, synthetic yarn), spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing and finishing, then garment making (cutting, assembly, finishing). The decisive question for an online seller is knowing where the manufacturer you contact stops. On this point, Turkey on one side, Bulgaria and Romania on the other, play very different roles. Turkey has the complete chain from yarn to garment : it grows cotton in Anatolia, spins, weaves its own fabrics (the denim and poplin of Bursa, the knitwear of Denizli) and makes garments. Bulgaria and Romania, for their part, are first and foremost contract-making countries : they excel at assembly (the famous CMT, « cut, make, trim »), but most often work on imported fabric, Italian, Turkish or Asian. In other words, in Bulgaria and Romania the added value is the garment-making labour, not the fibre. It sums up in one sentence : Turkey offers the complete chain from yarn to garment, Bulgaria excels at contract making (CMT), Romania adds leather and footwear.
Country by countryGarment making in Turkey : the complete chain
Turkey is the great textile workshop of the Mediterranean basin, and its strength is vertical integration : from the cotton field to the finished garment, everything can be done on site. Istanbul alone concentrates nearly 60 % of Turkish apparel production ; Bursa is the historic capital of fabric (denim, shirting, technical textiles) ; Denizli rules over knitwear (knit) and home textiles ; Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş weave and make more than 60 % of the national denim. For an online seller, the real advantage is not just price : it is accessible MOQ (minimum order quantity) (often 50 to 300 pieces per model) and short lead times thanks to proximity and the customs union, two decisive advantages over Asia for testing then restocking a collection. The reference events are those of the İHKİB federation and the Texhibition and IFCO fairs in Istanbul. Explore these workshops via the suppliers in Turkey.
Garment making in Bulgaria : contract work and knitwear
Bulgaria is an export-oriented contract garment-making country : around 86 % of its textile output goes to the European Union. Its historic heart is Gabrovo, nicknamed the « Bulgarian Manchester » for its knitwear tradition, alongside Sliven (wool) and Ruse (the Danube textile cluster). The killer argument is the small run : very low MOQ (minimum order quantity) (from 100 pieces, sometimes 50) and fast restocking, unbeatable for a young brand that does not want to tie up its cash. The country is also strong in socks and hosiery and in small leather goods (the Prolet workshop in Sofia has worked leather since 1964). The point to watch is the same as in Romania : the fabric is often imported, the local value is the garment making. Find these workshops among the suppliers in Bulgaria.
Garment making in Romania : leather and footwear on top
Romania is Eastern Europe's great contract maker (lohn / CMT) : nearly 80 % of its garment making is exported, mainly to Germany, Italy and France. You find established houses there : Braiconf (in Brăila, shirts), Formens (in Botoșani, suits) or Pandora Prod, presented as the only Romanian manufacturer supplying Uniqlo. But its real extra is leather and footwear : Romania is the 3rd-largest producer of leather footwear in the European Union, behind Italy and Spain, with manufacturers such as Marelbo (in Suceava) and a Timișoara-Veneto axis that feeds Italian subcontracting. MOQ (minimum order quantity) there are a little higher than in Bulgaria (often 100 to 500 pieces), and the profession is structured by the FEPAIUS federation (textile, leather and footwear). See the suppliers in Romania.
To launch a fashion brand : Turkey offers the complete chain from yarn to garment (with its own fabrics and integrated denim), Bulgaria excels at contract making (CMT), knitwear and the very small run, Romania adds leather and footwear. In all three cases, always ask whether the fabric is woven locally or imported.
Textile standards : what is mandatory, what is a plus
In textiles and leather, you must clearly distinguish the legal obligation from voluntary certifications :
- REACH (Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006) is an EU legal obligation : it governs chemical substances and notably bans chromium VI in leather articles ; it is the first thing to check on a shoe or a bag ;
- OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is a voluntary certification attesting the absence of harmful substances in the finished product : it reassures the buyer, but is not required by law ;
- GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) is a voluntary certification for organic cotton and organic natural fibres, checked across the whole chain ;
- GRS / RCS / OCS track recycled content (Global Recycled Standard, Recycled Claim Standard) or organic content (Organic Content Standard) : useful for an « eco » brand, but also voluntary ;
- EN ISO 20345 is the standard for safety footwear (protective toecap) : essential if you sell work footwear.
On top of this come social audits such as BSCI (amfori) or Sedex (SMETA), which cover the factory's working conditions and which European resellers increasingly ask for. A good Turkish, Bulgarian or Romanian contract maker will be able to show you its OEKO-TEX or GOTS attestations and, often, a recent BSCI audit ; on the other hand, the REACH compliance of the material and the composition labelling (Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011) remain your responsibility as the importer.
On the groundMOQ, materials and pitfalls to avoid
On quantities, keep three orders of magnitude in mind (indicative, to be confirmed by quote) : 50 to 300 pieces per model in Turkey, from 100 (sometimes 50) in Bulgaria, 100 to 500 in Romania. On materials, the golden rule is to always ask the origin of the fabric : in Turkey, the denim and knitwear may be woven on site ; in Bulgaria and Romania, the fabric is frequently imported and the workshop only does the garment making. That is honest, but it changes your traceability and your lead times.
Four pitfalls keep coming up. First, do not confuse the trade fairs : Première Vision and Texworld are Paris fairs, not Turkish ones ; the Turkish events are Texhibition and IFCO. Next, beware of trading companies disguised as factories : systematically require a factory address and a registration number, not a mere showroom. In Romanian footwear, watch out for false trails : Benvenuti is a reseller of Italian products, not a manufacturer, and Clujana went bankrupt ; ask for production proof. Finally, some workshop names circulate without being listed by a reliable source : in the directory, each record carries its registration and a confidence score, and distinguishes the manufacturer from the mere reseller.
The natural extensionThe company that goes with your sourcing
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That is exactly what Fenchell's Eurotrade package does : a Bulgarian company operable 100 % remotely, with corporate tax at 10 %, among the lowest in the EU, the VAT number, the EORI and the infrastructure that makes the whole thing genuinely manageable from anywhere. A European base consistent with European sourcing.
A clothing brand that has goods made in Turkey or Bulgaria and sells in the EU needs a European structure to invoice cleanly, reverse-charge the VAT on intra-EU purchases and import both the fabric and the finished products. Bulgaria ticks these boxes with the lightest corporate tax in the single market. See the guide : set up a Bulgarian company remotely.
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General information current as at 14 July 2026, not personalised legal, tax, customs or accounting advice. Minimum quantities, prices, lead times and logistics costs are indicative orders of magnitude, to be confirmed by quote with each supplier. Customs and tax regimes (the low-value consignment reform, the A.TR certificate, OSS/IOSS VAT thresholds) may change : always check the applicable texts and compliance (CE, health, cosmetics) in the country of destination. Fenchell has no commercial affiliation with the vast majority of the listed manufacturers and receives no commission on your dealings with them. Fenchell Capital OOD, a Bulgarian firm based in Plovdiv (EIK 207945095).