- Context
- A Spanish personal care brand already selling in retail and online that wanted to manufacture its own line in Asia instead of buying catalogue product.
- Need
- Move from a product idea and a few visual references to a manufacturable line, with its own packaging and the documentation required to sell legally in the European Union.
- Development
- Translating the brief into technical specifications, sourcing and comparing factories with experience in cosmetics for Europe, managing samples and adjusting format, materials and finishes until the reference sample was approved.
- Production
- Prior audit of the selected factory, sign-off of technical and packaging sheets, control of the production calendar and direct follow-up in Chinese with the factory team.
- Quality and compliance
- Review of the documentation required from the manufacturer, verification of labelling against European requirements and coordination with the client's appointed compliance contact before authorising shipment.
- Logistics
- Order consolidation, choice of transport mode according to lead time and volume, preparation of import documentation and coordination with customs clearance through to warehouse delivery.
- Markets
- Spain and the European Union.
- Outcome
- The client now has its own line manufactured to its specifications, a single point of contact for product, quality, documentation and transport, and a repeatable process for future reorders.
