Guides
Private-label and OEM furniture manufacturing, explained before you send a program brief.
These guides are for furniture brands, retailers and design houses sourcing an upholstered line. They cover private label, OEM (a factory building to your design) versus ODM (a factory developing the design, which you sell under your label), minimum order quantities (MOQs) and pricing.
They also cover tech packs (the drawings, dimensions, materials and hardware a factory builds from), landed cost (the unit price plus freight, duty and the other costs of getting a piece to your warehouse) and keeping reorders consistent. Each guide answers its question in the first paragraph, and guides that summarize a federal or California rule link to the agency's own page.
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Private label
(02)What is private-label furniture manufacturing?
What private-label furniture manufacturing is, what the factory handles and how it differs from white label, wholesale and contract manufacturing.
Read4 min readOEM vs ODM furniture: what is the difference?
OEM means you bring the design and the factory builds it; ODM means the factory brings the design. What each costs in control, speed and ownership.
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Costing
(03)How do minimum order quantities work in furniture?
Furniture MOQs come from pattern and sample work, changeover, material buying and learning a new piece. How to lower them and start at a single piece.
Read4 min readDomestic vs overseas furniture manufacturing: how does the math work?
Domestic vs overseas furniture manufacturing on landed cost: unit price, freight and duty, working capital, minimums, lead time and the cost of a bad run.
Read5 min readWhat sets the price of a private-label upholstered piece?
What moves the unit price of a private-label upholstered piece: size and frame, seat deck and foam, detail, yardage, finish, quantity and packaging.
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Production
(02)What does a furniture factory need from your tech pack?
The drawings, dimensions, materials and hardware a furniture manufacturer needs to quote and build your piece, and what happens to the gaps you leave.
Read5 min readHow do you keep a furniture program consistent across reorders?
Why a furniture reorder drifts from the first run, and four controls that help it match: the approved sample, a locked spec, a dye-lot plan and one factory.
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Next step
Ready to have a piece quoted? Send a program brief.
Send links to drawings or photographs with the quantity you have in mind. No minimum order: a program can start at a single piece.
Only your name and email are required. We reply by email with questions, or with a quote if the brief has enough to price.