Suppliers
Finding them, testing them, and keeping the relationship worth having — here and overseas.
03 — Procurement & Supply Chain
Procurement & Supply Chain
Most of a retailer's profit is decided before the customer walks in.
We negotiate once, for all of it. The operating companies sell to their own customers; the buying, the shipping and the stock maths sit here — which is how a small network gets terms a small shop never would.
The chain has fixed links — quotation, factory audit, booking, customs clearance, receiving, reconciliation — and each link has someone accountable for it and a point where it is handed on.
Sourcing overseas
Samples, specifications and the long argument over price that decides everything after it.
Import & logistics
Freight, customs papers, compliance, arrival dates. Unglamorous, and expensive to get wrong.
Warehousing & distribution
Receiving a container, checking it against the order, and sending the right portion to the right store.
Stock & replenishment
Enough to sell, not so much that it sits. The line between the two is where the work is.
Compliance & product certification
New Zealand import requirements, product standards, labelling and the documents that must still be there two years later.
Landed cost & supplier review
What it truly cost to put on the shelf, and which suppliers deserve next season's volume.
Sole agent, New Zealand
Haemim — New Zealand agency
Haemim
Republic of Korea · Disinfection equipment
Haemim, of Korea, is among the world's foremost makers of disinfection equipment. In New Zealand, the agency is held by Digilink Limited, and by no one else.
Sole agency is a duty before it is a privilege. We carry the import and compliance, appoint the channels, set the pricing structure and commercial terms, and stand behind what is sold after it is sold.
Import & trading
Kiwidigital — out of China
Kiwidigital is the import line of the network: product programmes sourced in China and brought to the New Zealand market.
The name is borrowed from the fruit. The kiwifruit came out of China, crossed an ocean, and ended up standing for this country. We take that as an instruction rather than a flourish: choose well at the source, carry it carefully, and let it earn its place here.