The Canton Fair is an exhibition that takes place twice a year in Canton, over an area of 1.200.000m². Each exhibition lasts 15 days, attracts 25,000 exhibitors, 203,000 buyers and has 60,000 stands.
At Canton, purchases are made for complete container loads of goods and the minimum orders are often very high.
On the other hand, the Yiwu Futian International Trade Market is a permanent exhibition,open 7/7, all year round (excluding Chinese New Year holidays) in an area of 5.000.000m².
The market is home to90,000 booths, 70,000 suppliers and attracts more than 15,000 buyers every day.
At Yiwu market, purchases are made by thecarton with very flexible MOQ.
Every day, around 11500 containers are exported from Yiwu!
Yiwu has its own port from which all customs declarations are made and the containers are loaded from the port of NINGBO.
The location was chosen as a strategic point of our commercial approach; we decided to implant ourselves in the heart of the market.
This implementation allows our teams to be in daily contact with suppliers.
It allows our clients to benefit from an ‘on the spot’ office, in order to once again make your time profitable. You will benefit from an office with Wi-Fi to consult your emails each day, debrief on your day of sourcing with our teams and discuss your commercial strategy and the intended course of action to be implemented with the management team.
The immense size of this wholesale market (5.000.000m²) makes it almost impossible to visit in its entirety
If you wish to visit the entire market, you would have to plan at least 3 weeks in order to walk along the many kilometers of paths.
With IWOO, we will guide you to the stores which most closely meet your requirements, thus making the most efficient use of your precious time.
More than 90,000 wholesale stores are present on the Yiwu Futian International Trade Market.
These stores are both showcases of factories but also wholesalers who can be likened to traders.
Our experience and know-how allow us to favor a direct collaboration with these factory outlets and to avoid intermediaries present on the market.
YES it is possible to buy by the carton from Yiwu.
This gigantic wholesale market is recognized worldwide for providing the opportunity to buy items by the carton.
CULTURE – EXPERIENCE – EXPERTISE – FACILITIES
Our CULTURE :
Being French and Europeans,we naturally understand the expectations and requirements of European customers in terms of product range, design and quality.
Our EXPERIENCE :
Our 10 years of experience in China has allowed us to have a perfect mastery and understanding of the mentality of the people, customs, and business practices of this vast country.
Our EXPERTISE :
Our know-how comes from our multicultural teams, which, under French management allows IWOO to collaborate directly with a network of more than 5000 factories in China. With our perfect mastery of export from Yiwu, we bring you turnkey solutions for all your Chinese requirements.
China holds no secrets for us.
Our FACILITIES :
To ensure an optimal level of service, we welcome you to our offices located in the Futian International Market where our teams work together to ensure the successful completion of our customers’ orders.
Our warehouse in Yiwu allows us to consolidate all orders from our clients, control and repackage all goods and load containers. All these services are performed by our in-house teams.
Therefore we can guarantee you delivery of a CONTAINER WITHOUT ANY UNPLEASANT SURPRISES! !
f you know China, you know that it is very difficult to conduct business even if you speak English well because the Chinese culture and way of life are so different from those of Westerners.
Moreover, in Yiwu, we are far from the standards offered by major cities like Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou where transit systems and the use of English are well developed.
If you are proficient in Mandarin, then yes, it is possible to get by in Yiwu. Otherwise it will most likely be very difficult to negotiate and communicate with suppliers.
In addition, it is IMPERATIVE when you work from Yiwu that you demand a very high standard of quality control It would be inconceivable and irresponsible to export goods from Yiwu which you have not scrupulously controlled for conformity to your country’s standards and your own requirements and expectations.
To answer to the question “Can I shop and fend for myself in Yiwu?” we strongly advise against traveling alone and placing orders without the assistance of a trusted local partner.
IWOO will cover every eventuality. We will protect your interest and make sure that all your transactions and imports take place in a secure environment.
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Although based in Yiwu, we have a network of more than 22000 partner factories all over China, enabling us to provide you with different offers to those offered at Yiwu.
With 10 years of experience in China, our sourcing service is able to answer most of your requests and to prepare proposals for you according to your specific requirements.
Our Yiwu warehouse can serve as a consolidation point for ALL your China orders.
Our target market (Europe, USA), is one of the most demanding in terms of Quality.
Apart from Price, the consistency of our offers meets the requirements that you are entitled to expect (Packaging, Design, Product Range, and Compliance with Standards).
Through our corporate mission, « OUR DUTY IS TO SATISFY YOUR REQUIREMENT », the French management team provides the foundations of this pillar of recognition, through the integral management of the supply chain from placement of the order through to loading of the container and shipping.
All sales orders are consolidated, controlled, repackaged, and loaded by IWOO teams at our Yiwu warehouse.
Whether you are a wholesaler, importer, supermarket, hypermarket, a group of stores, a trading company, a purchasing office, or simply a retailer, a stallholder or an online sales site, YIWU will be of great interest to you
Today, we collaborate with major international retailers, central purchasing departments of large distribution groups, importers, and customers with lower purchasing volume. Our unique knowledge enables us to combine an infinite product range with very flexible supply conditions, trusted by IWOO services to meet the needs and expectations of each individual client.
Yiwu City is known as: “An ocean of goods, a paradise for consumers“
Unequivocally the largest B2B trading market in the world and a “Paradise for Buyers”.
Yiwu attracts traders from around the world with 18 wholesale markets offering a broad range of products.
The “Chinese City of Commodities” was honored in 2005 by the UN, the World Bank and Morgan Stanley as “the world’s largest wholesale market for small goods».
The Yiwu International Trade Market (Futian Market) is the largest small commodity market in the world. It currently covers an area of 5 million square meters, with 90 000 suppliers. It has 400,000 types of products and is open every day from 9am to 5pm.
The products originate from over 40 industries and 2,000 different categories.
70% of these products are exported to more than 169 countries worldwide.
Whether you are a wholesaler, importer, hypermarket, a group of stores, or simply a retailer, a stallholder, or an online sales site YIWU is for you !