Making or assessing trial versions of a product before production; in beauty, sampling can instead mean providing trial quantities to customers.
In garment development, sampling turns a proposed design into trial versions that can be assessed before production. Pattern cutting, construction and fitting can lead to repeated adjustments as the team refines fit and proportions. A later sample provides a basis for the intended production version. The stage and purpose of a sample matter because an early development piece and a final approved version answer different questions. Beauty businesses also use sampling for customer trial quantities, a separate commercial sense that should be distinguished from making development prototypes.
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Sephora’s Senior Manager, Loyalty, Promotions & Sampling role in Toronto contributed inputs for promotion and sampling sales forecasts and worked with Analytics on forecasting and budget reviews. This places sampling within commercial planning in beauty retail. The work concerned forecasting and evaluating samples, with no responsibility stated for making development samples. Search local jobs for “sampling”.
