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The Apparel Scouts Mission

Apparel Scouts’ main objective is to provide merchandise buyer support to our brick and mortar, catalog, and web retailing clients. We ensure a successful retail apparel and accessory line that provides the consumer with an exciting buying experience, while stretching our clients’ profit margins and increasing their gross profit. Apparel Scouts was born as the result of an overall fashion industry need. Apparel Scouts specializes in the following soft lines and hard lines in apparel buying categories.

 

  • Women’s apparel
  • Men’s apparel
  • Accessories
  • Footwear
  • Special sizes

It’s All About You! We Build Relationships and Support Your Goals

Apparel Scouts is a female-owned and privately operated, independent business. We conduct our business with the highest integrity and treat your staff, vendors, and business partners and associates with the utmost respect.

Your business success means our business success—every day. Our passion and proficiency are concentrated in purchasing trending ladies’ and men’s apparel, accessories, and footwear as well as special sizes through numerous retail channels.

Apparel Scouts is conveniently located in the metropolitan New York area. We know the New York apparel market inside and out! That means you’ll have the inside track to today’s sought-after and hottest trends, manufacturers, to the best negotiated prices available.

Your Dedicated Merchandise Buyer:
Here’s Who We Help Every Day

We’ve talked to leaders and Merchants across the country. We’ve discovered that there are struggling retail buying departments and merchandise buyers everywhere.

In today’s constantly changing retail apparel world, it’s more important than ever for large retail companies to have the best candidates placed in their buying departments. With the merchandise buyer experience of Apparel Scouts, corporations are now freed to take the time to place the right permanent candidate in their company.

While helping big corporations in a pinch is a core part of our business, we also hold small- to medium-sized retail apparel businesses in high regard. It’s always exciting to see a new business get off the ground. A great idea is an exciting way to start a business. That’s when Apparel Scouts steps in. Apparel Scouts partners with all sizes of brick and mortar, catalogue, and web retailers—both large and small—to help create a successful product launch to line. We’ll keep the momentum going, control inventory supply, and continue to negotiate pricing for you.

All Across America, We’ve Got You Covered!
No matter where you are located throughout the United States, we can source the right retail mix of ladies’ and men’s clothing and accessories for your customer base. We are highly skilled at navigating the New York apparel market and solving the variety of problems that can occur throughout the retail buying cycle.
Beth Rosenthal
A Little Bit about Beth Rosenthal
Beth Rosenthal, owner and president of Apparel Scouts LLC, is your proven New York merchandise buyer and expert. She brings a considerable wealth of merchandising and retail employment experience for Apparel Scouts. She understands the needs of the fashion retailer.

Her strong background in merchandising and buying has been instrumental in working with high-profile, cutting-edge companies. Beth is dedicated to personally oversee the buying process for every client. She knows the challenges of multi-channel merchandising. She understands today’s evolving market trends, including the New York apparel market. She is highly skilled in growing apparel sales volume, reducing returns, and thinking creatively to solve any of your merchandising issues.

You’ll find that her leadership at Apparel Scouts gives her the opportunity to develop products with a clear understanding of your customer, leverage analytical data to deliver a strong merchandising assortment for your targeted customer, and negotiate terms and pricing for your company with both new and existing vendors.

It’s all about being precise in both research and retail marketing.

All of these skills translate into additional gross margin dollars to your bottom line!

Call Apparel Scouts Today!

Discover the Ease and Convenience of Outsourcing Your Apparel Buyer Responsibilities.
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