Letter to Supplier

 

Established in January 2004, Market Union Group is an integrated enterprise group with import and export of general merchandise and hardware tools as the core business, actively creating a comprehensive service platform for foreign trade, and supplemented by import and domestic trade of bulk commodity and consumer goods. At present, the company has under it more than ten trade subsidiaries either wholly-owned or as dominant shareholder, including Market Union, Royal Union, General Union, Multi Channel, Source Well, Bright Max, Dealer Well, Good Seller, Glory Universal, Free Market, Giant Tiger, Royaumann, Top Shine, Mu Resources, and Mini Tree etc. The registered capital of the group and the subsidiaries is over RMB 200 million yuan. Now it has operation centers in Ningbo and Yiwu two places and branches in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Cixi, Guangzhou and Shantou.

 

The group has now developed into one of the largest import-export group company in self-operated import-export volume and employee number in Zhejiang Province, Ningbo, Jinhua and Yiwu with the import and export volume reached US$894 million and the number of employees reached 1,000 in 2014. The group ranked the top five export enterprises in Ningbo in 2014, and was nominated as the top 500 foreign trade enterprises of China for the first time, and yet at the same time the group is an name-brand export enterprise in Zhejiang Province, the first batch pilot enterprise of integrated services of foreign trade in Zhejiang Province, the top 50 competitive enterprises of the Ministry of Commerce, consumers’ favorite brand enterprise in Ningbo City, foreign trade strength beneficiary project enterprise in Ningbo City, the first batch pilot enterprise of comprehensive reform of international Trade in Yiwy City, and passed the national ISO9001 quality system certification in 2011.

 

Market Union Group always practices the tenet "China’s purchasing wisdom, global trade service" and takes export of self-operated consumer goods as its main business. After 11 years’ development, we have maintained good cooperative relation with nearly more than 1,500 customers of more than 120 countries and regions for a long time; The group has more than 45,600 TEUs each year, that is 3,800 TEUs per month on average; Our salespersons participate in nearly 280 various exhibitions at home and abroad and exhibit more than thirty thousand kinds of products; At the same time, we provide a series of value-added services for overseas clients including packaging design, product testing, international logistics, and international market research; Our supplier network covers all cities and counties in the Yangtze River Delta region and gradually expand outward; Now we maintain stable cooperative relationship with more than 3000 various kinds of suppliers each year, directly or indirectly promoting upstream and downstream employment of nearly three million persons. Meanwhile, the group established Ningbo Mu Resources Co., Ltd. at the end of 2013, dealing in integrated services in foreign trade, import of bulk materials and other diversified business. We are actively engaged in the operation of foreign trade integrated service platform with “Mini Tree Foreign Trade” as the carrier aiming at small and medium-sized enterprises, providing one-stop integrated foreign trade services including general trade service and other value-added service, such as customs clearance, tax refund, credit insurance, foreign exchange, logistics, trade financing, global exhibition and specialized products exhibition center etc.

 

In order to optimize the supply chain and enhance business capabilities of products development, Market Union Group established the product development department in the second half of 2011. Since its establishment, our work has carried out centering on three main lines, namely: The first, to actively seek and expand product lines and reliable suppliers in line with group customer demands; the second is to develop and recommend products pointedly based on the pre-judgment on the business market potential against a rainy day; the third is to maintain the relationship with suppliers as a bridge between the Group's business department and the suppliers.

 

So far, we have developed a total of tens of thousands of export goods suppliers. We have product show centers with a total area of over 13,000 sq.m. in Ningbo, Yiwu and Shantou, displaying more than one hundred thousand products and about 30 batches of visitors per week. During the Canton Fair, at least 30 batches of guests visit the mentioned three product display centers each day to select products and place orders. If your latest samples occupy a significant position in our sample room, then you surely will win new orders. The staff of product development department visited over 1500 factories of various types in the Yangtze River Delta region in 2014, 27 factories per week on average; According to the statistics of new sample collection in the sample room, the product development department collected nearly 35,000 plant samples of various types in 2014; The product development department recommended to the group more than 1,260 newly developed factories in the Yangtze River provinces, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong in 2014, an average of about 100 factories per month; At the same time, the said department invited around more than 470 factories to visit the company and the two sample rooms in Ningbo and Yiwu, receiving 1.8 factories per working day on average. At the same time, in the whole last year, we actively participated in all kinds of relevant domestic exhibitions such as Canton Fair, East China Fair, China International Consumer Goods Fair, Yiwu Fair, Stationery Fair, Gift Fair, Hardware Fair, and Foreign Trade Factories Fair etc. to further expand the supplier network.

 

Looking forward to the future, we hope to provide a more attractive development and cooperation opportunities to our suppliers to enhance the common competitiveness. All cooperation between us will be built on the basis of common interests. The communication and close cooperation between suppliers and trade company will be even more important in line with the trend replacement of market and products in the future development.

 

We hereby sincerely hope you to cooperate in the following aspects:

 

1． To provide the most competitive price, and to deliver the goods according to time and quality as subscribed in the contract.

2． To ensure the products’ quality and improve the packaging quality as far as possible, as the products’ quality and packaging is the key factor in selling.

3． Often to visit our company to find more business opportunities in the mutual communication. And we also accept a variety of cooperation possibilities.

4． To provide us your new products at all times, including old products with new packaging, please provide us the samples, which we think is the best way to increase trade volume.

5． As exhibition at home and abroad is the main channel for product recommendation, we hope that you take seriously our requirements on products in each exhibition, and we will do our best to promote your products.

 

It is our fervent hope that you will become our closest cooperation supplier.

We believe that the market space is infinite, we have the ability to promote the sales of your products with our channels and experiences!

We hope to continue to work together with supplier friends to create a win-win structure in the next year!