Today, Singapore is simply booming !
Its cultural adaptability, trade-friendly policies and geographical location make it very attractive for all businesses and this is great for the promotional products industry!
Influenced by both British and Chinese culture, Singaporeans perfectly blend East and West.
Sandrine Balaguer is giving us some news about European Sourcing !!
For those who are not aware of “europeansourcing”, it’s a Mega on-line database,www.europeansourcing.com.
Genuine search engine of promotional objects and business gifts, listing more than 1500 catalogues of European suppliers…
Its goal: To connect the promotional product market actors in Europe, while respecting everyone’s working habits and culture.
What’s new about European Sourcing??
Interview between DocLogo+ and Sandrine Balaguer:
Henk : Dear Tetsu, Could you please give some short feedback about your company, I learned your company is working since 1984 in Premium and gift business ? Does your company import products from China, or do you source from US suppliers ? For which major corporations does your company work ?
Tetsu : Although most of the products we sell are made in China, we work with trusted intermediaries in the United States to procure the imports. Some of our suppliers import the items directly from China on our behalf. Others buy the products and imprint them for us as needed.
Our company has worked extensively with many major corporations and nonprofits during the twenty plus years we have been in business. These include: American Express, Barnes & Noble, Citicorp, Prudential Investments, the United Nations, MTV, OppenheimerFunds, Universal Motown Records, Young & Rubicam, Elsevier and Continental Airlines.
Henk : Are your clients mainly based in New York or do you also serve clients throughout the US or even abroad ? Your website is very complete, and it seems easy to order online. So I suppose you get orders from all over the US ?
A quick visit of the PromZ trade show in Holland, a small tradefair where about 100 Dutch distributors of promotional products exhibit their products.
Below are listed the best, the most innovative, the most friendly and the most empty booths.
Internet consultant Bart Schutz from Jungle Rating did an analysis (commisioned by Duth firm Adforesult) of the 8 most important online shops for pormotional products in Holland.
The following benchmark of online shops were tested and evaluated :
It’s easy to buy promotional products :
you only need to have a catalogue of promotional products and money to pay the promotional products.
But it’s not easy to buy the promotional products corresponding to your needs, the item that will fit perfectly to your promotional action.
In the promotional products market there are so many differents products , som any differents suppliers, that’s impossible for a distributor of promotional products to know all of them. This is why a few years ago several searchable databases popped up in Europe.
You order 1000 promotional products and you’ll receive and get billed 1075 pieces. Overruns and underruns are normal in the European paper industry, but not so much in the promotional products industry yet.
You can google around the web yourself and find the manufacturer, in this way you’ll save money! Are you sure you’l lsave money? I believe you’ll rather loose money and time.
This blog aims to identify news, trends and fundamental movements in the world of promotional items.
