The different stages of wool manufacturing are distributed in different regions of the world. The wool business is sometimes compared to the transportation business because it takes a long journey to complete the entire process from the back of the sheep to the retail shelf.

From the back of the sheep to the shelves of wool product retailers, the wool production process is long and cumbersome.Because the wool industry is price sensitive, many stages of the production process are carried out where production costs can be kept low. Therefore, wool production is a global industry.