Merchandise Sourcing: Is There Life Beyond China?

Some in attendance at the recent New England Mail Order Association conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., were a little taken aback by the presence of Tom Haugen, an executive director with Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd., a $7.1 billion division of the global outsourcing giant Li & Fung Group. After all, this is a conference that’s historically been targeted primarily at small- to mid-size catalogers from the eastern U.S.