Distributors & wholesalers

If you resell packaging, you are buying differently from everybody else on this site. You need landed cost you can build a margin on, supply you can promise, and — usually — your own name on the product rather than somebody else’s.

What a distributor programme looks like

Specifications, pack quantities and minimum orders for each: bin liners, stretch film, cling film.

The commitment is a forecast, not a fixed purchase. If your volumes drop, the forecast is revised at the quarterly review. You are not invoiced for stock you did not call off within the agreed window.

Why buy three categories from one source

Your customers do not buy one category. A regional wholesaler serving cleaning contractors, hotels and small manufacturers sells sacks, film and pallets to overlapping accounts — and typically buys them from four suppliers, each with its own minimum, terms and lead time.

What we remove is the 25–40% a local distributor adds for doing what you are already capable of doing yourself — if you had the specification, the Polish, and someone at the plant on the day the batch runs. On a light, bulky freight from Poland that markup is a visible share of landed cost.

Private label

Your brand on the product is usually worth more than the margin on somebody else’s. Minimums, plate costs, artwork requirements and the timeline are set out in full on private label & OEM.

The short version: 500 kg per design and colour on sacks, one pallet on printed film, plates quoted separately and charged once, held for three years, repeat runs at no origination cost.

Note on responsibility: putting your brand on packaging makes you the manufacturer under PPWR Article 21, which means the EU Declaration of Conformity is issued and signed in your name rather than the plant’s. Separately, placing it on a national market makes you the producer for EPR, with the registration and reporting that follow. The two are different roles on different clocks, and supplier questionnaires routinely blur them.

What we get out of the plant is the technical documentation to support the declaration you will sign, the material composition statement and the packaging weights. The declaration itself, and the scheme registration, are yours.

Territory

We do not appoint exclusive distributors, and we say so rather than implying otherwise during a negotiation. What we do:

• Not quote your accounts directly. Where you have introduced an account, it is yours.
• Tell you if we already work in your territory, so you can price accordingly.
• Not undercut your list price on the same specification into the same market.

An exclusive arrangement is possible at genuine national volume and is a written agreement with volume commitments on both sides, not a handshake.

How we are paid, and what that means for your price

You pay the factory price. The plant quotes you, the plant invoices you, and we are paid a commission by that manufacturer — at the same rate across every plant in the network. That last part is the one worth checking with any agent: where the rate varies by plant, the recommendation follows the rate.

So the delivered price you are quoted is the plant’s, and nothing is added to it on the way to you. We are not cheaper than a full trailer of one product bought direct from the factory that makes it — the price is the same price, and on single-category full loads you may as well buy direct. We will say so.

Where this arrangement earns its place is the mixed load, the private label run below a factory’s own minimum, and not having to run four supplier relationships to fill one truck.

Getting started

Send your current range list with the specifications and, if you are willing, what you pay today. We will quote line for line and tell you plainly where we cannot beat your existing supplier — that answer is more useful to you than a price that quietly excludes half the range.