Corporate polo MOQ works as a ladder, not a single number, and Singapore buyers planning around Chinese New Year and National Day feel the difference directly. Orders climb in rungs: a pilot rung, a programme rung, and a custom-fabric rung above both. Chinese New Year falls on 6 and 7 February 2027, with orders taken from November to mid-December 2026; National Day follows on Monday 9 August 2027, with its window from April to May 2027. Each window rewards a different rung, and this piece maps the two.
What is an MOQ ladder for corporate shirts?
It is the set of minimums a factory group offers, arranged so a buyer can enter at the size the programme actually needs. On our campus the ladder has three rungs. The first is the pilot: 500 pieces per style on FOB terms, one price covering fabric through finishing, sampled in one to two weeks and sewn in four to six, with colour and size splits stated at the brief. The second is the programme: 1,000 pieces per style on the group’s full-production floor, which draws on 200,000 pieces of monthly capacity and six to twelve weeks of sewing. The third is custom fabric development, which starts at 1,500 pieces per style, against the 1,000-piece floor, with the mill moved in front of the cut. The first two rungs are real floors; the third is the full floor with development set before it.
Which rung fits a Chinese New Year corporate order?
Depends on the headcount the festival has to dress. A single department, an event crew or a client gift run sits comfortably on the 500-piece rung, and CNY 2027 is the ideal year to test there, because the red worn in February is proof for the programme ordered after it. A firm-wide order across offices sits on the 1,000-piece rung, where the two-colour allowance covers the season’s red and a neutral. The 1,500-piece rung is for the buyer who wants a corporate red that no mill stocks, and it is the rung that needs the longest runway, which in the CNY window means briefing in November. The mechanics sit on our CNY corporate orders page.
Which rung fits a National Day programme?
The same ladder, entered earlier and dressed in red and white. Community committees and single-site programmes fit the 500-piece rung, with orders taken from April to May 2027 ahead of the parade on Monday 9 August. Multi-site corporates and estate-wide programmes take the 1,000-piece rung, sized across sites with the size split done at the brief. National Day’s is the widest window of the year, so it is also the window where climbing a rung costs the least: the first quarter sits open and unqueued ahead of the April window, and the calendar detail runs on our sourcing desk’s National Day order clock.
How do the two windows change the ladder choice?
They change it through time, not quantity. The CNY window compresses: a brief arriving in December is already inside the sampling queue, so a buyer uncertain between rungs buys the lower one and climbs after the festival, which the campus is built to allow, since the pilot’s patterns and colour approvals carry to the next rung and nothing is re-decided. The National Day window expands: sampling at 500 in April, wear confirmed by the end of the month, and a 1,000-piece programme placed by the first week of May converts every range into an August delivery. Quantity is a headcount answer; the window decides how confidently you can climb.
How does the ladder compare with local decorators?
Decorators sit below the ladder entirely, pressing logos onto stock blanks at minimums from ten pieces (market reference), and for ten shirts that is exactly the right buy. A decorator changes a shirt that already exists; a ladder builds one that did not, collar, cloth, colour dyed in rather than printed on, and the woven label at the back neck.
Corporate ladder questions
What is the minimum for a corporate polo order?
500 pieces per style on FOB terms, the pilot rung, sampled in one to two weeks and sewn in four to six. The programme rung starts at 1,000 pieces per style, and custom fabric development at 1,500.
When should a CNY 2027 corporate order be placed?
Between November and mid-December 2026. A brief from early December fits every range; leave it to mid-December and the quick ends are running, which reaches the festival but not the dinners before it.
When should a National Day 2027 order be placed?
Between April and May 2027, ahead of the parade on Monday 9 August. Early in the window, a buyer can sample on the pilot rung and place the programme rung by the first week of May with every range still converting.
Can an order start small and climb later?
That is the design of the ladder. The pilot’s patterns and colour approvals carry to the next rung, so a 500-piece CNY pilot becomes a 1,000-piece programme after the festival without re-deciding anything, and the same files make the April rung a re-order rather than a restart.
Tell us the headcount and the festival, and the reply names your rung: start the conversation. The floors themselves are explained on the group’s minimum-order page, and the quote maths sits in our quoting guide.