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by Flip-per 4195 days ago
Why don't you distribute directly from Italy?
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We don't because we are currently a small company and distribute in South East Asia at the moment.

With scale and a larger US, EU customer base, we will be able to distribute from Italy.

Distribution from within the EU requires a business license, VAT registration and obviously a premises. These cost money and are huge fixed costs that a small firm can't handle right now.

We explored the option of distribution from our manufacturer's facility, but costs go up, because we need to pay fair wages for work done to distribute and handle customers - driving cost up again.

These key decisions are paying off - We now have brought to market (very quickly and with extremely high quality) - a great product at a great price point.