Nice to meet you

We help businesses create and build brands with purpose in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. What does this mean? Helping bring products to these markets that make a positive contribution to; the physical and mental wellbeing of consumers, the planet and the retail offer. How do we do this? By leveraging our extensive experience and professional networks in multiple disciplines, categories and countries to identify the intersection between unmet consumer and retailer needs.

What we do

  • Utilise different research techniques and retailer feedback to identify unmet consumer needs and or positioning that will best resonate with consumers
  • Engage experts as required eg: regulations, copy writers, packaging developers, media buyers etc
  • Develop marketing and go to market plans
  • Project manage production, marketing and go to market plans
  • Act as a Vendor to the retailers
  • Managing all financial transactions with the retailers
  • Managing Category reviews
  • Building and implementing pricing and promotional strategy
  • Submitting promotional programs
  • Submitting NPD and EPD paperwork
  • Quarterly Business reviews with the retailer
  • Retailer JBP discussions
  • Promotional Accruals
  • Claims approval and payment
  • Sales forecasting
  • On going day to day retailer requests
  • Trade Investment management
  • Field coverage
  • Local brand strategy development and execution
  • Leveraging global assets with localisation
  • Local campaigns development and implementation
  • Developing and managing Retailer Media campaigns
  • Media buy
  • Social and digital management
  • PR
  • Shopper marketing
  • Supply planning
  • Stock ordering from manufacturing plant
  • Warehousing of stock 
  • Order, billing and shipping
  • Customer and consumer service
  • Admin and paperwork
  • Warehousing and distribution relationship management

If we believe we have the ability to help a start up brand scale, or underperforming existing brand, we can enter into partial or full acquisition agreements with brand owners.

What makes us different?

  • We represent a curated range of brands connected by purpose
  • We are able to manage and service brands in all retail channels (ie: grocery stores, pharmacies, beauty specialists, wholefood/wellness, department stores, discount department stores, pet stores, hardware stores, clearance outlets and online retailers)
  • You choose the services and level of involvement that suit your business
  • Our fees are low compared to traditional distributors
  • We focus on the consumer and the customer with passion for building brands
  • We are driven by commercial outcomes and deliver P&L improvement for our partners
  • You have direct access to the team assigned to your business
  • We provide regular communication and reporting, including quarterly business reviews
  • We work the same way FMCG companies work hence can effectively be an extension of your team 

About the team

  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Brunei
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Cyprus
  • East  Timor
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nepal
  • North Korea
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Pacific Islands
  • Philippines
  • Qatar
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Sri Lanka
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • UAE
  • Vietnam

Asia

We are a small group of senior commercial leaders with global blue-chip company experience. We have extensive professional networks that enable specialists to be engaged as required and experience managing brands in:

 Australia

    • Woolworths, Coles, Big W, Kmart and Target
    • Chemist Warehouse, Priceline, TerryWhite and all major pharmacy retailers
    • Pharmacy wholesalers (API, Sigma and Symbion)
    • Wholefood/Wellness channel
    • Costco
    • Ecom retailers – Amazon, ebay, catch.com, Adorebeauty, etc

New Zealand

    • Woolworths (Countdown), Foodstuffs (New World, Pak’NSave, Foursquare)
    • Chemist Warehouse,
    • Greencross, Bargain Chemist, Vantage Club
    • Costco
    • The Warehouse
    • Ecom Retailers