Why you never appear on an import document
Angel imports on its own Importer Exporter Code and takes title to the goods on arrival. Legally the transaction that reaches you is a domestic sale of goods lying in Maharashtra. You get a GST invoice from an Indian company, you pay in rupees, and no bank, customs house or freight forwarder ever needs your name.
This is not a technicality — it is the entire product. Opening a letter of credit, arranging marine insurance, clearing a consignment and warehousing it is a full-time job with a large minimum cost. Spread over 300 metres it is prohibitive. Spread over a container it is manageable. We carry the container so you can take the 300 metres.
How the price is built
We start from the landed cost per metre: the mill price, freight, duty, clearing, insurance, warehousing and the finance cost of holding stock. On top of that sits a flat 15% sourcing fee. It is the same 15% on every quality and for every customer, whatever the plan.
What we do not do is open the books. You will not see the mill invoice and you will not learn the supplier's name. That is the trade: confidentiality in exchange for a fee that does not move around, a tolerance we absorb, and a single counterparty who is answerable when something goes wrong.
Minimums, and why they are what they are
On a quality already in flow — one where a mill is running production for other programmes anyway — we can attach 50 metres per colour to an existing batch. Containers reach us roughly every two days, so a small lot rarely has to wait long for a ride.
On a development, where the fabric has to be made specifically for you, the number is 300 metres per colour. Below that a mill cannot economically set up a dye lot, and anyone who tells you otherwise is quietly making it up on the price.
Shrinkage, shortage and the 5% line
Every roll of fabric shrinks and every consignment runs slightly short. Most supply agreements leave the tolerance unstated, which means the argument happens after the money has moved. Ours is on the order confirmation before you pay anything: Angel absorbs shrinkage and shortage up to 5%. Beyond 5% we take it back to the mill and pass the settlement to you.
The timeline, honestly
A development order runs about two months from confirmed sample to goods available in Bhiwandi. Ready stock already on our floor ships in roughly a week once the balance clears. Anyone quoting you three weeks on a fresh development from overseas is either holding stock they have not told you about or is about to miss the date.
What we will not do
We will not name the mill. We will not take an order for a quality we do not think will hold at your price point. We will not list a country we are not yet operating in — today that means China, with our own presence in Guangzhou. Turkey, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Portugal and Italy are on the roadmap and are not live.