One partner per market, per brand, per category. You get an existing brand, the compliance dossier that makes it legal to sell where you are, the goods landed, and the platform to sell them on. We classify, certify, raise the documents, book the freight and localise the labels. You hold the customers. Before you commit to an order, you get the classification, the document set and the landed cost in writing.
Not for want of effort. Four things end most attempts, and all four are decided before the goods are made.
Not a price list and a logo. The whole apparatus behind a line, and the part of it you would otherwise have to build.
Anyone deciding whether to take a line is weighing four things, whether or not they name them. Here is each one on its own, and what changes.
Alone: a product you import, and whatever recognition you can build for it in a market that has never heard of it.
With us: the category in your territory, under a brand with a catalogue, a specification history and twelve storefronts of trading behind it.
Alone: you find out at the border. A wrong allergen statement is a re-labelling operation in a bonded warehouse or a withdrawal.
With us: the rulebook is settled in writing before a factory is approached. A supplier who cannot be listed for your market is not a candidate at any price.
Alone: registrations and certifications cannot be compressed at the end of a deal, and most people start them at the end of a deal.
With us: they start while the sample is still being assessed, and the storefront is built while the container is at sea.
Alone: classification, certification, artwork, documents, freight, clearance, platform, feeds, CRM — then selling.
With us: selling.
A distributor's exposure in this trade is concentrated in two moments: committing before anyone has checked whether the goods are legal, and paying before anyone has checked whether they are right. Both are ours.
You get the classification, the document set, the certification the category needs and the landed-cost model before there is anything to commit to. If the category cannot legally be sold in your market as specified, we tell you so in writing, and there is no order to place. Finding that out costs you a conversation.
Third-party pre-shipment inspection against a sampling plan agreed with you, our people present at the loading, the seal number recorded against the container and the photographs, and the balance held until the report passes and the batch certificates are released.
DG Brands Limited in Hong Kong, DG Brands Europe doo in Serbia, or Sana Vivo Brands, Lda in Portugal. An EU buyer who needs an EU seller of record, an EU invoice and an EU responsible operator on the label buys inside the EU.
The eleven sector dossiers on this site are not marketing pages. Each one names the regulations that govern its category, the documents that clear it and the mistakes that stop a first shipment. That is the standard of detail a territory partner receives for their own category and market — so judge it before you enquire, not after.
Or read the playbook — six briefings on what decides whether an imported line earns
We already operate twelve market storefronts ourselves, and those markets are not available. Everywhere else is, once — territory is granted one partner per market, per brand, per category, and we do not grant a second in the same market. That is the whole reason the exclusivity is worth having, and the reason the list only ever gets shorter.
If you are in a market we already run, there is still a conversation worth having: channel supply, a sector we do not yet carry there, or a private label of your own.
The market you want, the category, and the channels you already sell through. We are reading for whether you have customers, not whether you have a warehouse.
Classification, duty and landed cost, the certification and registration your market requires, the document set, and whether the brand's existing specification can be sold there as it stands or needs reformulating. In writing, before anything is committed.
Territory, brand, category, term and what volume keeps the exclusivity. We would rather set a figure you will clear than one that looks good on a first call.
Labels localised and plates cut, registrations filed, then a supervised first production run and loading. Meanwhile the storefront, the feeds and the trade portal are built, so the shelf exists by the time the goods land.
Once stock is landed and rotating in your region, a reorder is a delivery rather than a sailing — which is the difference between carrying a line and waiting for one.
Eventually, yes — an exclusivity nobody sells through is just a market we have taken off the table. But not to start, and not before the dossier. The volume that keeps a territory is set with you at terms, against what your channels can actually absorb, and it is written down rather than implied.
A named brand, in a named category, in a named market. It does not cover our own twelve storefronts, and it does not stop us trading a different category in your market unless we have agreed that too. We say which of those applies before you sign, not after.
Then we tell you in writing and there is no order. That answer is worth having: it is the same finding that would otherwise have arrived as a border rejection with a container already paid for. If a reformulation or a different specification would clear, the dossier says that as well.
You do. The CRM, the lead intake and the dealer portal are handed to you with the territory, and the enquiries that come through them are yours. We are not building a customer list in your market behind your own storefront.
Yes. We own brands and we also create them — OEM, ODM and private label, with name and trademark clearance in your destination classes, a shelf-life or lifecycle study on the finished product rather than on the recipe, and your own artwork. The compliance and freight apparatus is identical; only whose name is on the box changes.
Smaller than most people assume, because the minimum is usually print rather than production — and a shared film across markets, a common base artwork with a market-specific panel, or a first run costed as a market test will often move it. We will tell you which part of a minimum is real and which part is negotiable.
Whichever of our three entities fits your market, and the label names a responsible operator who has to be established where the goods are sold — which is what the Porto company is for inside the EU. This matters more than it sounds: a missing or misstated allergen is a withdrawal, and the cost lands on whoever is named on the pack. We settle that in the dossier.
Six fields. It goes to a named person in Hong Kong or Belgrade, and the first thing back is questions about your market — not a brochure.
Leave three lines and we will come back with the corridor, the customs position and a realistic timeline for whatever you are moving.