Email to Moore Wilsons about distributing

 Hi there

We are 4 fourth year School of Design students at Massey University Wellington, currently working on a design project which is about creating a start up business.

We are designing a reusable collapsible coffee cup that is eco conscious and convenient to use. It would potentially be made from silicone and bamboo or bioplastic.

For our project we need validation from potential stockists to prove whether our business idea would work in the real world. At the moment we are not asking for you to agree to stock the cup in your store but only asking, if the product went into manufacturing, would it be something that could be seen  stocked in Moore Wilsons?

If possible are we able to make contact with someone that we could have further discussion with, as to why/why not this product would work within Moore Wilsons?

Look forward to hearing from you,

Catherine and the CoCupsable team

Hi Catherine,

In principle the cups sound like they would be a good fit for us.  Key considerations that our category managers would look at are listed below;

·         Does it work/not leak/not break

·         Packaging/Barcode

·         Terms of Trade – Payment terms, freight etc.

·         Lead time for orders

·         Differentiated from current offering

·         Price/Margin

·         Where else it is being sold/distributed

·         How it will be promoted and customers pushed to our store to purchase

Hope that helps, sorry but our category team struggle to keep up with their normal work and we get a lot of requests for product feedback so phone calls and meetings are not an option for hypothetical products.

Kind regards

Amanda

Amanda Thompson

Category Sales Manager