I know hundreds, thousands of business owners, and their operations look so different than what they were a year ago.
My business, FLOMO, has been recognized for decades as a leading product developer and major national brand of gift bags, party supplies, gifts/novelties, arts and crafts supplies, school supplies and educational products, and holiday seasonal merchandise. That hasn’t changed. However, we now offer global sourcing as a service – we don’t keep our great relationships to ourselves.
For example, we have a sizeable e-commerce customer who continually asks us to source items for them, ranging from gift bags and holiday decorations, to kitchen, home and hardware items, like aprons, toilet plungers, zip ties and more. FLOMO’s efficient service, competitive pricing and product development/designs makes our customer’s job much easier, so they save precious time and money using our product managers, designers, and supply chain logistics. We not only handle all the details, but we have even increased their top and bottom lines. With our trusted relationships in manufacturing, FLOMO develops items at a faster pace and without additional expenses to expand their business. FLOMO handles the sourcing, design, production and 3PL and e-commerce via our headquarters just outside New York City.
Shortly after quarantine began, a large retail chain came to us, wanting to rapidly expand offerings for arts and crafts supplies, given the demand. We listened to their needs and comparison shopped within our existing manufacturing relationships to source an expanded line of contemporary creative art supplies. We also private labeled and customized our existing FLOMO offerings, which allowed for quick turn-around of market-proven products. The chain was able to substantially increase sales since we quickly provided products and at lower costs/better profit margins.
Our regularly audited and reputably manufacturing network gives us access to new revenue opportunities for retailers of all sizes. We work around the clock with teams in New Jersey as well as Taiwan, China and throughout Southeast Asia, always putting effort to help customers transition products to manufacturers to lower their cost and increase their profit. And our global sourcing and procurement team ships and delivers both domestically and internationally and can even support direct import. Whether you’ve developed a new product and need resources for fulfillment or are an established brand expanding your product line, we have a solution for you.
Innovation comes from listening to our customers’ pain points and responding to them with immediate and profitable solutions. Take a look at our wide variety of products from paper and plastic goods, PPE, personal care products, housewares, arts and crafts, educational and new FLOFit fitness line. We can take your ideas and present a concept, plan, proposal, planogram, product development, sourcing, pricing strategy to purchasing, purchase order follow up, manufacturing support, assembly, inspection and logistics…a full support team. Our customers love that the FLOMO team takes initiative and suggests what they are missing, what market trends are hot, and what they should consider adding in their retail stores or e-commerce. We’re here to listen and help businesses expand without taking on weighty expenses.
Wendy Shen is the founder and CEO of FLOMO a designer, manufacturer, importer and distributor, as well as a major national brand of retail products. Wendy and FLOMO also offer services in Third Party Logistics (3PL)/Supply Chain Management, Global Sourcing, and Promotional Products to better serve customers through this uncertain time when consumers need quality products quickly.