About Us
A Young Company Built on an Old Idea: Service Is the Product
MMY Bags is a handbag trading and sourcing company headquartered in Xihu District, Hangzhou — beside West Lake, in one of China’s most international trading cities. Founded in 2019, we connect brands and importers around the world with a vetted network of specialist bag factories, and we manage every order with the care of a partner rather than the distance of a middleman.
Our Story
Founded in 2019, Grown One Satisfied Client at a Time
MMY Bags was founded in 2019 by merchandisers who had spent years inside the handbag export business and kept seeing the same failure from both sides: overseas buyers struggled to find factories they could trust, and good factories struggled to understand what overseas buyers actually needed. The founders chose the trading company model deliberately — not because it is easier, but because it is the structure that lets one team take responsibility for the entire journey from a client’s sketch to their warehouse shelf. The name was kept plain on purpose: in custom wholesale, the brand that matters is yours, not ours.
The timing could hardly have been harder. Months after founding, the pandemic froze trade fairs, factory visits, and sample couriers — the entire traditional sourcing process. MMY Bags survived by replacing all of it with process: video factory audits, photographed sampling checkpoints, digital material libraries, and inspection reports detailed enough that a buyer in Hamburg or Houston could release a shipment with confidence from their desk. Clients who came to us out of necessity in 2020 stayed out of preference, and the discipline that era forced on us is now simply how we work.
Today, MMY Bags delivers more than half a million bags a year to over forty countries, serving independent DTC labels in Los Angeles and London, department-store private labels in Tokyo and Dubai, promotional buyers in Berlin, and fast-growing e-commerce brands across Southeast Asia. We remain a compact company by design — every client gets a named merchandiser, every order gets our own final inspection, and every factory in our network was audited in person by our own team before it shipped a single unit for our clients.
2019
Founded in Xihu District, Hangzhou, as a specialist handbag trading company.
2020
Pivoted to fully digital sourcing: video audits, photographed sampling, remote QC reporting.
2021
European and North American client base established; network passes ten audited factories.
2022
Independent in-house QC team formed; AQL 2.5 final inspection made standard on every order.
2023
Sustainable materials program launched with GRS-certified and vegan sourcing lines.
2024
Export markets pass 40 countries; ODM design development service formalized.
2025
Founded in Xihu District, Hangzhou, as a specialist handbag trading company.
Our Network
Twenty Audited Factories, Chosen Style by Style
We do not own production lines, and we consider that our greatest quality asset. Our network spans more than twenty specialist workshops across China’s major bag-making regions — structured leather ateliers in Guangzhou, soft-goods and suede specialists, technical backpack factories, and small-goods houses with jewelry-grade finishing. Each was audited in person for craft, machinery, material sources, social compliance, and quality history before joining the network, and each is re-audited annually.
This structure means your design is always placed with the workshop that does it best, at pricing our combined volume commands, with capacity we can shift between partners when a deadline is at risk. Peak network capacity reaches well over 100,000 units per month, with standard bulk lead times of twenty-five to thirty-five days after sample approval and deposit. Throughout production our merchandisers follow the line in person, and before anything ships, our independent QC team inspects every order to AQL 2.5 — appearance, measurement, function, and packing.
What We Stand For
Three Rules on the Office Wall
Service Is the Product
A trading company that only forwards emails earns nothing. We earn our margin by being useful: itemized quotations in 48 hours, honest advice about construction risks, photo updates from the production line, and a merchandiser who answers within one business day. If our service ever becomes invisible, we have failed — the entire company is built around that fear.
Quality Is Checked, Not Promised
We never ask a client to trust a factory’s word, including through us. Every order passes our own independent final inspection before release, and third-party inspectors nominated by you are welcomed at any stage. A defect that reaches your customer is our failure, and our twelve-month workmanship guarantee puts that in writing.
Your Brand Comes First
We kept our own name plain because we are not the brand — you are. Client designs are confidential by contract, custom patterns are archived under your account and never offered elsewhere, and exclusive ODM styles are withheld from other buyers in your territory. Our success is measured entirely by yours.
Credentials
Audited Partners, Documented Quality
BSCI
SEDEX SMETA
ISO 9001:2015
GRS
REACH
CPSIA
The factories in our network hold current BSCI and Sedex SMETA social compliance audits, ISO 9001:2015 quality management certification, and GRS transaction certificates for recycled material programs. Product-level compliance documentation — REACH SVHC screening, CPSIA testing, California Prop 65 assessments, UKCA declarations — is arranged per shipment through accredited laboratories including SGS and Intertek, and passed through to you with the export documents.
We welcome scrutiny of our own work as much as of our partners’. Clients are invited to visit our Hangzhou office and showroom, join live video audits of the production lines making their orders, or nominate any third-party inspector at any stage of any order. A sourcing partner that resists inspection is telling you something; we would rather show you everything.
Work With a Partner Who Answers for the Whole Chain
Whether you start with a full seasonal brief or a single sample order, we would rather earn your trust with evidence than ask for it with adjectives.