Hoodie Manufacturer for Melbourne Brands

• Test a style before you scale it. Our minimum is typically 50 pieces per style. Custom-dyed fleece usually carries a mill minimum, so your quote confirms the minimum for your exact fabric.
• Your fabric and fit. French terry or brushed fleece from about 280 to over 500 GSM, in cotton or cotton-polyester blends, as pullovers or zip hoodies. Our hoodies page lists every option.
• Your branding. Screen printing, puff print, embroidery and your own woven or printed labels.
• Room to grow. Repeat orders can reach around 50,000 pieces in a single shipment, from the same approved sample.

Melbourne is rarely warm enough to put hoodies away for long. Over the Bureau of Meteorology's long record for central Melbourne, July days average 13.5 °C with nights around 6 °C, and even in January the average overnight low is about 14 °C. The city also averages around 100 days a year with at least 1 mm of rain, about 60 of them between May and October.

A midweight French terry hoodie covers the most months, so it is the safest first style for a new label; add a heavier fleece for the winter drop. Our French terry vs fleece guide compares the two fabrics, and our GSM guide explains fabric weight.

For fleece hoodies in stock by April, ahead of winter, send your tech pack by mid-February: one sample round and the bulk order take about five to seven weeks. For a new style that may need a second sample, start by the end of January.

Hoodies are classified with sweatshirts and pullovers under tariff heading 6110, which pays Australia's general rate of 5%. Three of our production countries have trade agreements with Australia that remove it, but each agreement decides differently what counts as a hoodie made in that country.

GST of 10% applies on top for consignments over A$1,000. Our Melbourne guide covers GST registration and the Port of Melbourne, and our landed cost guide shows how duty, freight and GST add up.

Every hoodie needs a permanent care label in English under the Consumer Goods (Care Labelling) Information Standard 2023, and the international care symbols can be used. Fibre content and country of origin are optional in Australia but must be accurate if you include them, so a fleece hoodie sewn overseas cannot say "Made in Australia". Both become mandatory if you also sell in New Zealand.

Your neck, care and side-seam labels are sewn in during production. Our custom labels page covers woven and printed labels, folds, and what each market requires.

1. Send your designs or a tech pack, with quantities per size and color.
2. We confirm the minimum, price, production country and timeline in your quote.
3. We make a sample in 2–3 weeks so you can check fit, fabric and finish.
4. Once you approve it, the bulk order usually arrives in Melbourne 3–4 weeks from the order date, shipping included.