Produced by Teresa Mahoney
VIDEO: HARD TIMES FOR WHOLESALE T-SHIRT HUB
December 23, 2011
Volatile cotton prices, rising rent and a down economy have resulted in an approximate 50 percent drop in business for plain T-shirt wholesalers in Lower Midtown.
Naveed Ahmed, owner of Cotton Mine, is one of about 25 business owners in a five-story wholesale T-shirt epicenter on 27th and Broadway who copes with declining sales. Within the last year he’s downsized his business and started offering custom printing services to differentiate himself from other vendors in the building.
Watch as Ahmed discusses the wholesale T-shirt business model while fulfilling a custom printing order for an emerging designer.
