Independent Trading Co built its name on fleece that survives a wash cycle without pilling into a rag, which is why the brand shows up constantly in searches from gym owners, team managers, and small merch shop operators comparing bottoms for their next drop. In the Bear Grips Pro Shops catalog, the brand is represented by two pieces built for exactly that kind of daily wear: the Women's Wave Wash Sweatpants and the Men's Midweight Performance Joggers. This guide covers what each piece actually is, what it costs at each plan tier, who tends to buy it, and how to get it live in a shop without carrying a single unit of inventory.
Independent Trading Co built its reputation supplying blank fleece to screen printers and decorators, not selling directly to the public, which is part of why so many buyers end up searching for reviews before they commit a logo to one of its pieces. The brand sits in the same fleece tier as Jerzees and Cotton Heritage: heavier weight, garment quality that holds a print or an embroidered patch, and pricing built for resale rather than one-off retail. For a shop owner deciding what to put a logo on, that resale-ready construction is the actual selling point, more than the name on the label.
The two products carried through Bear Grips Pro Shops, the Women's Wave Wash Sweatpants and the Men's Midweight Performance Joggers, both sit in that same fleece tier. Neither is a budget throwaway piece, and neither is priced like a premium athleisure brand either.
| Product | Fit | Best for | VIP base |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Wave Wash Sweatpants | Women's, relaxed | Studio wear, loungewear drops, cold-weather bundles | $39.88 |
| Men's Midweight Performance Joggers | Men's, tapered jogger | Gym merch, team travel gear, everyday branded wear | $40.88 |
Both prices are the VIP base cost before your design and your markup. Every design, front or back, is included at that base with no per-color or per-element surcharge.
Bear Grips Pro Shops: Custom Apparel for Your Team. No Minimums. Free Shipping.| Plan | Monthly cost | Live products | Wave Wash Sweatpants base | Midweight Joggers base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 3 | $47.94 | $49.92 |
| Self-Service VIP | $59/mo | 200 | $39.88 | $40.88 |
| Done-For-You VIP | $105/mo | 250 | $39.88 | $40.88 |
Moving from Free to either VIP tier saves $8.06 on the sweatpants and $9.04 on the joggers per unit sold, which matters once a shop is moving more than a handful of units a month. Both VIP tiers share the same lowest base pricing. The Done-For-You tier adds a shop advisor who builds the layout, writes the product copy, and picks color variants, on top of the same product pricing as Self-Service VIP.
Wave Wash Sweatpants and Midweight Performance Joggers, both no minimum, free US shipping, live in about a week.
Start FreeNot currently. The two Independent Trading Co pieces in the catalog are the Women's Wave Wash Sweatpants and the Men's Midweight Performance Joggers. For hoodies and crewnecks, the catalog carries Bear Grips, Champion, and Gildan options in the same price range.
No. Single-piece pricing applies whether a customer orders one pair or a shop sells a hundred in a month. The base price does not change with volume.
Whatever the vendor sets as retail minus the VIP base cost. A sweatpant priced at $54.88 retail against a $39.88 VIP base nets $15 before payment processing, which is above the platform's default recommended profit of $10 per item.
About a week from order to delivery, with free US shipping to the end customer and USA printing on every piece.
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