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Company overview
El Saied Company s.p.r.l. is a Belgian textile recycler and wholesale exporter at 424 Bergensesteenweg, 1600 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, south-west of Brussels. It sorts second-hand clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, toys and antiques, sells new clothing and shoes alongside them, and produces recycling cotton.
The address is worth a note. Another exporter in this directory sits on the same road in the same town, a few hundred numbers away, which is not coincidence: the Bergensesteenweg runs out of Brussels towards Mons past a strip of industrial units with motorway access, and the used-textile trade has settled along it.
Why the number of grades changes with the product
El Saied publishes a grade ladder for each category, and the ladders are deliberately different lengths:
- Clothing, summer and winter: three qualities, Cream as first quality, then Grade A and Grade B. Packed in bales.
- Handbags: two qualities, Cream and Grade A. Packed in bags.
- Shoes: two qualities, Cream and Grade A, packed in bags of 25 kg. The company states explicitly that there is no third quality in shoes.
- Recycling cotton: white cotton and coloured cotton, in big bales weighing from 350 kg.
- Toys: hard toys in plastic, metal or wood, including electronic, and soft textile toys.
- Accessories: jewellery and decorative items, watches, rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and small statues.
That single sentence about shoes is more instructive than it looks, and it explains something that confuses buyers who move from clothing into footwear. A garment fails gradually. A faded shirt or a slightly bobbled jumper is worth less than a crisp one but it is still worth something, so a clothing ladder can carry three, four or six steps and every step finds a buyer.
A shoe fails all at once. A split sole, a collapsed heel or a missing pair is not a lower grade, it is scrap, because nobody buys one shoe and nobody re-soles a five-euro trainer. The economics collapse the ladder to two steps, and any supplier offering you Grade B shoes is either using the words differently or selling you something that will not walk out of your shop. Handbags sit closer to shoes than to clothing for the same reason: a broken zip or a torn strap ends the item.
The practical use is diagnostic. When you read any supplier's grade list, check whether the ladder length changes by category. One that applies the same three or four grades to everything has probably copied a clothing standard across its whole catalogue without thinking about it. Buyers comparing second-hand clothing suppliers can treat category-specific ladders as a small sign of a house that sorts what it sells, and the general grade vocabulary explains what Cream and Grade A normally mean before you compare two of them.
Packing lists you can read before you buy
The site offers downloadable packing lists as PDFs: a 20 ft Cream container, a 40 ft high cube Cream container, and a 40 ft high cube container.
Almost nothing else in this directory does that. A packing list is the document that turns a vague promise into a specification, because it says how many bales, of what, at what weight, in what proportion of ladies to men's to children's. Treat the published files as templates rather than as a guarantee for your specific load, and then use them properly: ask for the packing list of the actual container before it sails, and compare it with the template. If the two look nothing alike, you have found out before the money moves rather than after the box is opened.
Cotton, tracking and one caution
The recycling cotton is split into white and coloured, which is the standard division in the wiping trade because white can go where colour transfer would ruin the work. Note the packing: big bales from 350 kg. That is a mill-scale unit, not something a trader breaks down by hand, so it tells you this line is sold to processors rather than to market sellers.
The site also carries a container tracking page, which is unusual and genuinely useful when you are waiting six weeks on a sailing. Ask what it actually shows, since passing through a shipping line's booking number and maintaining your own status updates are both called tracking and only one of them tells you anything the carrier's own site would not.
One caution before you send money. The company's own domain is not currently resolving and the live site is hosted on an agency subdomain, which happens often enough with small exporters and is not in itself a red flag, but it does mean the email address shown on the site sits on a domain that is down. Confirm the current contact details by telephone before you transfer anything. The numbers given are +32 487 528 991 and +32 488 867 600. For a wholesale buyer who wants clothing, shoes, bags and toys from one loading point, the breadth here is the attraction, and the way sorting houses split an intake explains why so many categories come out of one building.
Frequently asked questions
Where is El Saied Company based?
At 424 Bergensesteenweg, 1600 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium, south-west of Brussels.
What grades are offered?
Three for clothing, Cream, Grade A and Grade B. Two for handbags and two for shoes, Cream and Grade A, with the company stating there is no third quality in shoes.
How is everything packed?
Clothing in bales, handbags in bags, shoes in 25 kg bags, and recycling cotton in big bales from 350 kg.
Are packing lists available?
Yes. Sample packing lists are offered as downloads for a 20 ft Cream container and for 40 ft high cube containers. Ask for the packing list of your actual load and compare it with the sample.
What else does the company sell?
Toys in hard and soft categories, accessories and jewellery, antiques, and new clothing and shoes alongside the second-hand lines.
Key Strengths
Experience in container loading for export
Bulk buying from charities and textile banks
Quality inspection prior to sale
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