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Compliance, sampling, lead times and the commercial mechanics of plush programmes — written for buyers rather than for search engines.
Which parts of the standard apply to soft toys, what a testing laboratory needs from you before it starts, and where the requirement changes between destination markets.
Read the compliance noteThe four rounds of edits a mascot usually needs, what each one costs you in time, and how to brief a factory so you do not pay for the same correction twice.
Sampling, bulk production, inspection and shipping are four separate clocks. Here is how they run, and which ones you can plan around.
Where the 300-piece minimum comes from on our side, why colours and sizes can be mixed inside one style, and how to plan a test order that still tells you something.
A retail delivery date is the only fixed point in a seasonal programme. The rest — sampling, approval, production, packing — has to be scheduled behind it.
Regular, secret and hidden editions only work when the ratio is set before production. What to agree with your factory early, and how the cartons are packed.
If any of these notes answered a question you had, send the same details with your brief and we will turn it into a quotation.
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