Cosmetics - a relatively comfortable product for retail.
Pros of its sales:
How to find a supplier for a cosmetics store
Household chemistry and cosmetics store is a profitable investment if it is opened in a place with high traffic.
However, it is more important to find a supplier with which you can work more than one year and on favorable terms.
Where can I find the suppliers of cosmetics:
Competitors
Not an ethical, but effective way to find out where a competitor is taking the goods - pretend to be a meticulous buyer and ask the seller for quality certificates. By law, such certificates are available in every store and are provided on demand.
Often certificates of conformity are issued not by the manufacturer, but by the supplier. Remembering the name of the supplier, you can contact its managers and find out the terms of cooperation.
Take into account, the proposed conditions may not coincide with the conditions of the competitor, especially if he has worked with the same dealer network for many years.
Search engine
To find a supplier, in search engines you can:
Enter the name of the product. With this method of searching, you can easily start viewing the results, issued on page 3-5. Suppliers, unlike shops, do not allocate money for SEO-optimization of sites. Often, and their resources are far from ideal and completely not adapted to modern search engine ranking requirements.
Therefore, at the beginning of the list, the search engine will give out the resources of companies that offer not always favorable terms of cooperation, but have taken care of optimization. Therefore, we recommend that you have enough patience.
Make a request with the word "supplier".
Often, with this formulation, the search engine issues special directory sites that help find suppliers. We recommend to consider these resources in a separate order, and to search for suppliers' websites, it is better to begin researching search queries from the fifth to the sixth page.
Write a query with the word "producer". Having phoned the manufacturer, specify who supplies their products to stores. Perhaps it makes sense to agree on direct distribution.
Specialized sites
Separately, it is worth exploring special sites that help find a supplier. In such catalogs, several suppliers, including manufacturers, have been collected.
However, there are also disadvantages of this way of finding partners for business, there is no complete information on the catalog sites.
Catalogs are providing contacts to more than twenty suppliers:
Exhibitions
A simple and common way to find suppliers is specialized exhibitions.
You can see the calendar of exhibitions in Russia on the following websites:
Dealer Network
Dealer network is a costly project, which includes:
Specialized media
Periodically, suppliers advertise in specialized media. Such ads were much several years ago, but it is easier for a supplier to place contacts on the Web and in specialized directories.
Packing of goods
If you examine the packaging of the product, it contains information about the manufacturer or supplier in Russia. You can call the specified phone and managers will advise whom to contact.
How to choose a supplier
To select a provider of practice, it is recommended to compile a table with estimates.
It are put for indicators: