About Linking Maker & Market
- Discover emerging suppliers from around the world
- Export-ready for home decoration & home textiles markets
- Updates on programmes and events of CBI
- Connect directly with makers, or talk to one of our sector experts
For buyers
As an importer, retailer or brand, you need suppliers you can trust - verified, compliant, and ready to deliver at the volumes your business needs. We connect you with new, emerging makers in home decoration and home textiles. We already did the discovery and coaching work, so you don't have to start from zero.
For over 55 years, CBI has connected suppliers from around the world with European buyers. These exporters are trained and coached by CBI to strengthen their product offer, sales and promotion, and to meet EU market access requirements.
This website presents all suppliers we have supported - their collections, profiles, expertise and contact details.
About CBI
CBI is the centre for the promotion of sustainable production and trade between low- and middle-income countries and the Netherlands and Europe.
We partner with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their ecosystems to strengthen their social and environmental sustainability. Together, we are moving towards sustainable production and EU compliance.
CBI is part of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and is commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The programmes of CBI
CBI's export coaching programmes have run for over five decades. Together with local stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries, CBI selects small and medium sized businesses with export and market potential for training and coaching to develop their business and link them to buyers in the European market. CBI also works to strengthen the local ecosystem around them.
→ Learn more about CBI programmes
Once suppliers are ready for market access, we connect them with European buyers, support their participation in trade shows and pop-up exhibitions, and promote their business online - including through this platform.
Home decoration & home textiles
In home decoration and home textiles, CBI has run programmes across Latin America, Africa and Asia. The makers listed on this platform have taken part in CBI export coaching programmes in Indonesia, South Africa, Mongolia, Ghana, Cambodia, Egypt, Laos, Uganda, Myanmar, Tanzania and Bangladesh from 2013.
Programme Home Textiles Bangladesh 2025 -2030
CBI is currently running the Home Textiles Bangladesh programme, active until 2030. For buyers, this provides new sourcing opportunities.
→Read all about the natural fibers and craft techniques available.
We focus on sustainable dyeing in this programme.
→See what we are working on and join a pilot!
The suppliers partnering with CBI in this programme are listed on this platform, and we'll keep adding exporters as they join.
→ Read more about the Bangladesh programme on the CBI website
Get in touch
Each CBI programme is implemented by a team of external local and international sector experts. For importers and retailers in Europe, your sector expert is the direct line to the makers.
