About Bana
We're a B2B fabric sourcing platform built for how modern apparel brands actually want to work — small pilots, fast turnarounds, infinite scale when something works.
The Problem
For decades, India's fabric supply chain has forced apparel brands to choose between agility and access. The country produces some of the world's most capable export-grade fabric — but the mills behind it sell only at scale. 1,000 to 1,500 meters per order. 60-day lead times. Limited willingness to engage with brands ordering less.
That structure works for established export houses with steady volumes. It does not work for the next generation of Indian D2C brands — the ones launching micro-collections, testing new weaves, trying to stay agile in a category where consumer taste shifts every season.
For them, the traditional answer has been compromise: tie up working capital in deadstock, settle for lower-grade fabric from accessible traders, or pass the constraint on as risk.
We don't think those compromises should be necessary.
What We Do
BANA brings India's mill ecosystem within reach of brands who couldn't access it before. We operate as a curated sourcing layer — pulling fabrics from a vetted network of mills, process houses and trading partners across Surat, Tiruppur, Erode, Ludhiana and Ahmedabad, and offering them at terms designed for how today's apparel brands actually plan and produce.50m minimum order quantities. Lead times from 15 days on running stock. 10,000m+ bulk capacity when a pilot becomes a winner. A single point of contact across cotton, viscose, polyester, linen, knits, prints, embroideries and specialty fabrics. Reliability that holds across the volume curve — from a 50m sample order to a 50,000m production run.
What We're Building
Our long-term mission is to make agile sourcing the default for Indian apparel — to remove minimum order quantity as a structural barrier to a brand's ability to test, learn and scale.We believe the next generation of Indian fashion brands shouldn't have to pre-commit a season's worth of cash to find out whether a fabric works.We believe export houses shouldn't lose deals because their existing suppliers can't pilot a new blend inside two months.We believe the gap between what India's mill ecosystem can produce and what India's brands can actually access should be closed — and that closing it is a sourcing problem, not a manufacturing one.
Who We Work With
Bana serves three primary buyer types:
Scaling D2C brands testing new collections, building seasonal ranges, and growing their fabric mix without locking up working capital.
Export houses needing agility on top of their bulk pipelines — pilot runs that scale predictably into global production volumes.
Production managers and merchandisers at established apparel brands sourcing the long tail of fabrics their primary mill relationships don't cover.
We're headquartered in Bengaluru, with sourcing operations in Surat. Fabrics from our supply chain reach apparel brands across India and ultimately ship to markets in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East through our export buyers.