Mobile Accessories

Mobile accessories are a tooling business dressed as a consumer-goods business. Almost every product here is model-specific, which means each phone you want to cover is its own mould, its own cutting programme and its own minimum order — and a factory quoting one low unit price across ten models is usually quoting the amortisation of ten moulds nobody has agreed to pay for yet. Get the model list, the tooling charge and the ownership of the mould into writing at the quotation stage, because ownership is what decides whether production can be moved later. The second thing to fix early is the calendar: the margin in this category is made in the weeks immediately after a new phone ships, and a mould that arrives after that window has missed it. Two of these leaves — phone cases and screen protectors — are flagged high IP risk in our taxonomy, and the bulk ingestion path refuses them outright.