International trade & business development
We put manufacturers and suppliers in front of the distributors, importers and buyers who want what they make, then stay with the deal through pricing, compliance and the first shipments until it turns into repeat business.
Who we are
A trade and business development company built around direct relationships and execution rather than headcount.
We work from either side of the transaction. A manufacturer who wants distribution in a market they have never sold into, and a buyer who cannot find a supplier willing to quote their specification, arrive with the same problem: the other side exists, and neither knows how to reach it.
Most deals stall in the gap between the introduction and the first order. Pricing that does not survive a currency move, compliance paperwork nobody checked, an Incoterm that quietly shifts the risk onto whoever read the contract least carefully. We stay in that gap until the commercial terms hold.
You deal with the people doing the work. There is no account layer between you and whoever is on the phone to the factory, and that is usually why things move faster here than through a larger agency.
The trade side
Matching supply to demand across borders, then handling everything that has to be true before goods move.
Manufacturers & suppliers
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Importers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, marketplaces
Traffic runs both ways. We help suppliers reach markets they have no route into, and we help buyers find sources that will actually quote their specification.
We match a technical specification to the manufacturers that can hit it, then handle the shortlist, the samples and the back-and-forth over drawings. Where nothing off the shelf fits, that runs through tooling and first article with a factory that builds to spec rather than to habit.
Factory visits, capacity checks and reference calls before a deposit leaves your account.
Price, payment schedule and minimum order quantity negotiated from your side of the table, with the payment structure set so your exposure stays on the right side of the deposit.
Inspections during the run and again at loading, against the standards your destination market actually enforces.
Freight booking, export paperwork and door-to-door tracking, including the documents customs will ask for on arrival.
The development side
Turning a product that could sell in a market into one that does.
Which market, which channel, which entry model. Worked out on landed cost and the margin left after the channel takes its cut, not on export statistics somebody published last year.
Finding the distributor, importer, wholesaler or retail buyer the product actually fits, then checking they can move the volume they claim.
Acting for a manufacturer in a market where they have no presence: meetings, follow-up, and the relationship work that decides whether a listing survives its first year.
Pairing a requirement with a source that can meet it, from either direction, without either side paying for introductions that go nowhere.
Price, MOQ, payment terms, Incoterms, exclusivity, and the exit clauses people skip until they need them.
A first order rarely pays for the work behind it. We stay on the account through reorders, new SKUs, further markets, and replacing a supplier that starts missing runs.
The channel side
Online is one route to market. When it is the right one, we run it.
Most products need both. Where the split falls depends on margin, volume, and how much control the brand wants over its own price.
Seller account setup, Brand Registry, shipment plans and an FBA/FBM split that suits your margin. We work the daily queue so stock does not sit stranded or turn unfulfillable.
Theme, product data, payment providers and shipping rules configured for cross-border orders rather than one home market.
Registration, tax numbers, category approvals and the documents each platform insists on before it will let you list.
Titles, bullets, A+ content and photography rewritten per market by someone who speaks it. No machine translation passed off as copy.
Prep, labelling and 3PL routing, plus a return path that brings stock back somewhere useful instead of writing it off abroad.
PPC budgets, keyword harvesting and weekly reporting measured against contribution margin rather than impressions.
Where we work
We are opportunity-driven rather than industry-limited. These are the categories we have built networks in; the commercial model works across most B2B products.
Kitchenware, small appliances and everyday household products, private label included.
Personal care, hygiene and disposable healthcare products, including private-label opportunities.
Materials, fixings and architectural components for project and distributor supply.
Industrial equipment and precision parts built to your drawings and tolerances.
Solar mounting, cabling and balance-of-system components for renewable projects.
Knitwear, home textiles and private-label production with short reorder cycles.
Flat-pack and assembled furniture, lighting and housewares sized for e-commerce carriers.
And other commercially viable product categories. If it moves in volume and the numbers work, it is worth a conversation.
Process
Five stages, and we are involved in all of them. Most of the value sits in the middle two, where a promising introduction either becomes a commercial agreement or quietly dies of unanswered emails.
Start a ConversationThe requirement or the opportunity, stated plainly: what has to be made, sourced, sold or replaced.
Manufacturer, supplier, buyer, distributor or channel partner, checked before an introduction gets made.
Samples, pricing, compliance, commercial terms and the logistics route, negotiated until both sides can sign.
First orders through offline distribution, direct B2B supply, or a marketplace listing.
New accounts, more SKUs, further markets, and the reorder rhythm that makes the account worth having.
Get in touch
A product looking for a market, a market looking for a supplier, or a component nobody will quote. Any of those makes a good first message.
Tell us what you are selling or looking for, roughly what volume, and where it needs to go. We reply within one working day.