We publish independent research into who actually manufactures the things consumer brands sell — and we show our working, so you never have to take our word for it.
A label tells you where a piece of furniture was last worked on. It does not tell you which company built it, whether that company also builds for a brand at a third of the price, or whether the arrangement changed last year without anyone being told.
None of that is secret. It is simply scattered, unglamorous and nobody's job to assemble. So the buyer — whether that's someone choosing a sofa or a business choosing a supplier — makes a decision on the one piece of information the label happens to carry.
We assemble the rest.
We do not accept payment for inclusion, and no company named in our research has reviewed it before publication. We are not affiliated with any brand or manufacturer we write about. Nothing we publish is an accusation: contract manufacturing is ordinary, legal, and how the industry has worked for decades.
The finding is not that brands share factories. It is that you were never told which.
Every manufacturer we name carries a status and, wherever one could be established, a date. Both matter, because a supply relationship with no date attached can quietly become false.
Where two records disagree, we print both figures. Where something could not be settled at all, it goes in the open questions appendix rather than being quietly dropped. One relationship documented in our first report had already ended before publication — the report says so, on the page.
Our reports are a well-evidenced sample, not a complete census. No research of this kind could honestly claim otherwise, and any that does is guessing.
If we have something wrong, we want to know, and we would rather hear it from you than from a reader who bought on the strength of it. Corrections are credited in later editions unless you would prefer otherwise.
Readers inside the trade routinely see things public records cannot show. Several of the open questions in our first report are closeable by someone with local access, and we say which ones.
Every claim we make about a report is a claim about what is inside it. If something we describe isn't there, tell us within 100 days and we refund you in full. Full terms on the Refund Policy page.
Underlabel Reports is published by ThaiNED International Co., Ltd. We are a small independent publisher, not a data vendor and not a consultancy. We sell finished research directly to the people who need it, at a price meant to be paid once rather than subscribed to.
Questions, corrections and press enquiries all reach us at the same address: support@underlabelreports.com