#Distribution
“It wasn’t the original plan but we couldn’t ignore it”: FoodByUs takes on $8b café sector
The founders of Sydney-based startup FoodByUs have evolved their online homemade meal marketplace to provide cafés and wholesale food suppliers with a distribution solution that doubles as a matchmaking service. FoodByUs was conceived by Ben Lipschitz, founder of footwear brand Flipsters, together with Tim Chandler, Menulog’s former lead developer, and Menulog co-founder Gary Munitz. It launched in […]
Different distribution options for your start-up
Product distribution resides at the heart of getting your products into the hands of consumers. Any startup business, no matter where they operate from, must overcome the basic problems of distribution in order to generate meaningful profits. The more avenues through which your startup can move product, the more potential income streams you will have […]
Trolley Bags: from unsellable to viral success with the muscle of Facebook
With 10 years’ experience in import and wholesale distribution, Australian entrepreneur, Peter Byrne, thought he was onto a winner when his distribution business, Combined Group of Companies, bought the Trolley Bags concept from inventor, Paul Doyle. Designed to eliminate the need for the 3.76 billion plastic bags dumped in Australia’s landfill sites each year, the […]
How to find a distributor for your product
Expert advice for finding a product distributor: listen to your customers.
Holster seduces David Jones
Holster, based in Noosa, have seduced David Jones into distributing their range of Holster jelly sandals in David Jones stores across Australia.
Infomedia takes a niche global
Infomedia Exporting since 1997, Infomedia’s clients include subscribers from some 160 countries, the latest being the Democratic Republic of Congo.Infomedia didn’t make a profit until it began exporting, and now it’s found its niche supplying electronic parts cataloguing systems to the global automotive industry. Products are distributed to almost 50,000 dealers in some 160 countries, […]
Madman Entertainment’s Tim Anderson: Growing a niche business
For Tim Anderson, pursuing a childhood interest meant starting niche a business, Madman Entertainment, from his bedroom. Together with Paul Weigard, co-director, Anderson has learnt the steps of growing a niche business. He’s a self-confessed geek, and always has been. But Tim Anderson’s brand of geekiness is a savvy business tool that’s helping Madman Entertainment […]
nudie’s Tim Pethick gives branding a squeeze
Tim Pethick knows all about business branding. After all, between the cars and hot air balloons, nudie juice became one of the Asia/Pacific region’s most influential brands. So how was it done? Pethick lays bare his branding tips. If it wasn’t for the dot-com crash of 2000, the world may never have seen a […]
Peter Alexander, the pyjama man behind the brand
When his pyjama business was first launched, Peter Alexander didn’t imagine he would spend the next 18 years growing a brand and an online business. Now he shares how Peter Alexander, the brand, led to a profitable business. It all started with a pair of pyjamas bought in Hong Kong. The uncharacteristic purchase prompted […]