Elevate Wholesale Agency is a consultancy dedicated to helping fashion and lifestyle brands build profitable, long term wholesale businesses. Founded by Jenny Nakkan, Elevate exists to bridge the gap between creative vision and commercial strategy giving brands the tools, guidance and connections they need to scale with confidence.

Whether you're launching into wholesale for the first time or expanding into international markets, Elevate supports you with global pricing strategies, sales timelines, agent and showroom matchmaking, and go-to-market planning tailored to your brand.

In 2025, Elevate launched Splash Sydney Australia’s first internationally recognised fashion trade show to provide brands with a platform that converts brand awareness into global wholesale results.

Elevate doesn't just help brands grow we help them grow the right way.

The Growth Activists partners with fashion organisations to cultivate sustainable growth, enhance positive impact, and build resilience for a thriving future. We empower your business across three key pillars:

STRATEGY: We drive growth through strategic planning and innovation. We collaboratively identify opportunities and develop actionable strategies to unlock new value and navigate the challenges of the evolving global market.

SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION: From crafting science-based net-zero roadmaps and delivering robust human rights and modern slavery reporting, to strengthening governance, mapping your supply chain, navigating the global regulatory landscape and achieving B Corp certification, we guide you through every step of your sustainability journey.

ENGAGEMENT: We strengthen stakeholder engagement, brand, and communications. We help you connect authentically with evolving consumers and all your other critical stakeholders, building a compelling narrative that reflects your values and commitment to ethical and environmental responsibility, meeting increasing demands with impactful storytelling.

• Free fashion consulting and industry resources
• Optimizing supply chains—Cost, Convenience, Communication, Competition, and Connection
• Finding specialist manufacturers overseas and expanding sourcing options
• Enhancing sourcing, development, production, and purchasing services
• Building strong fashion networks and industry connections

We provide accounting services broadly, but not limited to, tax reporting, preparation of financial statements and business advice for small to medium sized businesses. We have a great client base made up of many artistic, design, fashion and retail businesses that we love to support. We hope to share in our expertise and experiences with other likeminded businesses and hope to continue to learn about others experiences so we can share this with our clients. We offer these kinds of services to a broader range of businesses and clients also.

AUSTRALIA'S FASHION, DESIGN AND TEXTILE EVENT

Experience innovation and creativity for the Fashion and Home industries. This exclusive two-day event invites a carefully curated selection of local and international exhibitors. Discover the latest in trend, colour, print, textile sustainability and technology to elevate your next collection.

Join us and immerse yourself in a world where inspiration meets opportunity.

Apparel & Textile manufacturing and sourcing. - Fashion circularity & Zero waste management. - Tech Platforms for supply chain traceability and smart factory implementation. - Advisory, Consulting & Resource Centre. - Industry Stakeholders Collaboration Hub & Slow fashion hubs

Lucky Tiger is a strategic brand development and design agency for changemakers in fashion, lifestyle, e-commerce and beyond.

We transform brands through elegant design and powerful strategy. Our powerful solutions help evolving brands to stand out, grow, and positively impact the world.

With deep experience in fashion and e-commerce, the Lucky Tiger team is the perfect partner to lift your e-commerce performance, re-energise your brand design, or provide creative direction for your next shoot.
We proudly designed this very website and directory for the AFC in 2021 to revitalise its image and strengthen its positioning as a professional peak body for Australian Fashion.

We can help you:
• Inspire confidence with an elevated brand identity and website that speaks to your target audience.

• Optimise your e-commerce website for greater user experience, reach and sales conversions.

• Reclaim your time. Let us take care of your strategy and creative so you can focus on what you do best.

We'd love to hear from you.

Book a free 20min consultation call

We can advise you at all stages of your business’ lifecycle and our highly skilled attorneys and lawyer will work closely with you in developing a strategy to ensure your commercial objectives are met and your unique designs and products are well protected and enforced. An effective IP strategy is crucial to securing your competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
We also have a dedicated anti-counterfeiting team with extensive experience helping IP owners take action against the importers and distributors of counterfeit products. As the exclusive Australian and New Zealand partner of REACT, a leading global anti-counterfeiting organisation headquartered in Europe, we can also facilitate the enforcement of your IP rights in Europe.

Our 6-week pre-accelerator program ensures that our designers can confidently showcase their work at our retail pop-up. It acts as a launchpad to connect them with consumers, buyers, the media, and the broader fashion community.

Melbourne Fashion Hub provides a safe and supportive environment for Melbourne fashion design students to help them determine which future direction they’d like to take themselves and their practice within the fashion industry.

Olvera provides senior executive management with the necessary skills to execute operating in stress and distress environments, with sub optimal information. We also understand that sustainable change takes time, focus and effort.

Our people not only provide expert guidance, procedures, strategic planning and analysis to optimise performance and assist in recovery, but have the crucial operational market experience necessary to ensure successful execution of those changes.

This allows our clients to turn economic uncertainty within their business swiftly from crisis to positive advantage.

Fashion Equipped's Founder, Elizabeth Formosa, is a business strategist, advisor and consultant to fashion founders and leaders, supporting them through growth, complexity and key commercial decisions.

Through Fashion Equipped, she partners with established fashion businesses at critical points of growth, providing senior-level perspective across strategy, structure, and key decision-making.

Her work focuses on helping leaders prioritise what matters most, navigate complexity, and make informed, confident decisions that support sustainable, profitable scale.

Elizabeth brings over 25 years of experience across fashion retail, wholesale brand, product, sourcing, sales, marketing and eCommerce.

This includes roles in senior Business Management, Buying, BDM, brand and business ownership and long-term strategic advisory.

During her career and throughout her advisory and consulting role, she has worked with more than 100 fashion businesses, from early-stage brands through to $50M+ and enterprise-level organisations, giving her a deep understanding of how fashion businesses evolve at different stages.

Elizabeth's advisory work spans whole-of-business considerations, including:

• Growth strategy and prioritisation
• Commercial and financial performance
• Operating structure and team design
• Product and range strategy
• Brand strategy and market positioning
• Sales and Marketing
• eCommerce & Wholesale
• Supply chain optimisation, sourcing and sustainability considerations

In addition to her advisory work, Elizabeth is the host of the Fashion Business Mindset podcast, sharing candid conversations and senior strategic insight from across the fashion industry.

Elizabeth is also a regular speaker and panel moderator at industry events, including the Global Sourcing Expo.

She works with a small number of clients each year and is selective about engagements to ensure depth, focus and meaningful impact.

If you’re navigating a pivotal phase of growth and value experienced strategic leadership, Elizabeth is always open to a conversation.

• Inspire confidence with an elevated brand identity and website that speaks to your target audience.

• Optimise your e-commerce website for greater user experience, reach and sales conversions.

• Reclaim your time. Let us take care of your strategy and creative so you can focus on what you do best.

We'd love to hear from you.

Book a free 20min consultation call

TMC Studios works with fashion and lifestyle brands to deliver integrated creative and operational support across the full product lifecycle. Services include creative direction, seasonal concept development, product and range planning, wholesale and production operations, creative assets and workflow optimisation.

With a background spanning design, operations, and leadership roles, TMC Studios partners closely with brands to translate creative vision into commercially viable outcomes, supporting growth through considered strategy, structure, and execution.

Manufacture My Product is a trusted global manufacturing agent with over 200 clients and having manufacturered over 2000 orders & 500+ different products, we specialized in customised manufacturing, working with over 30 industrial manufacturers across 9 countries.

Our agency network includes experts in garment sourcing, private-label fashion, sustainable, ethical and certified manufacturing, giving our clients access to the best manufacturers and factory production solutions.

The RIF Group provides award winning international logistics & supply chain services. We specialise in working closely with our clients, finding and implementing innovative solutions that help sell more products and make more profit.

Trusted by some of ANZ's fastest growing brands - $500,000,000+ in Sales delivered cost-effectively from over 50 countries & regions

We work with brands & in-house marketing teams to deliver cost-effective ROI & confidence to their digital marketing

- Strategy
- Meta, Google, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat
- Email Marketing & Retention
- Creative and Design

Your brand is unique, which is why we don’t offer ‘one size fits all’ cookie-cutter marketing solutions that don’t work long-term for you.

Instead, our approach is to cohesively work on all the platforms that are most important to your business, crafting an overall strategy to fix what’s not working and get the growth and results you’re looking for.

Ume Studio provides fashion industry expertise in strategy, design and digital development, to enable established businesses and emerging startups to responsibly build and scale impactful brands. We support companies with their efforts to innovate socially and environmentally responsible products through informed advisory services and backed by extensive experience in design and sourcing. Alongside that we also offer 3D garment development which aims to minimise environmental waste in the sampling process while optimising the range creation process.

Our objective is simple ... maximise sales and profit through optimising inventory. Therein lies the competitive edge.
Merchandise Planning is a niche skill set, in short supply globally and in the Australian market.

We are practitioners, not theorists. Our team has honed their skills across senior roles spanning fast fashion, hard goods, seasonal, branded, online, FMCG and discount variety sectors. Applying practical experience and knowledge gained through careers with leading, global retailers, we offer specialist insights and tailored solutions ... bringing together the art and the science of Merchandise Planning.