Festival calendars, seasonal collections and trend planning for buyers
Seasonal GuidesNepal's wedding season runs November to February, from Mithila weddings in Janakpur to Valley receptions, and it is two trades in one calendar. Here is how to balance bridal depth against guest-tier velocity, and how to run reorders mid-season without missing the muhurta clusters.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesA planning guide for the nine nights of Navratri, the category whose entire year compresses into six retail weeks. Covers the cotton-versus-net buying split, diaspora association orders that arrive in July, and the depth decisions that cannot be corrected mid-window.
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Seasonal GuidesHoli wear is the only ethnic category bought with the intention of being destroyed, and it behaves differently from everything else on the shelf. Covers bulk cotton specs, the one-weekend retail window, the packing hygiene that keeps white cartons from rejection, and the order-lock maths.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesFestive colour trends are set months before they reach retail, and the evidence sits in what Surat's dyeing houses are running in bulk. This guide covers how to read the pipeline, our 2026-27 palette reading, dye-lot drift on repeat orders, and why colour stories outsell single shades.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesA retailer's timeline for planning an Eid capsule, from design lock four to five months out to a shelf stocked before Ramadan begins. Covers the lunar drift, capsule structure for small boutiques, and why the last ten nights of Ramadan need your deepest core sizes.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesThe working Diwali calendar for wholesale buyers, built backwards from the shelf date: order-lock maths, what sells in the five-day run, and when markdowns must start. Includes the diaspora retail rhythm in Leicester, Southall, New Jersey and Mississauga.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesDashain is the fortnight that pays for the year, and it punishes late ordering harder than any other window in Nepal. Here is how to work backwards from Ghatasthapana, build the truck buffer, and set a category mix that holds through Vijayadashami.
Read articleSeasonal GuidesChhath barely registers in Kathmandu planning, but in the eastern Terai it is the counter event of the autumn. This guide covers the cotton saree trade, the Biratnagar-Damak-Itahari belt, and the timing squeeze that stacks Chhath on the heels of Tihar.
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