Inquiry about Contact Lenses

RFQ Details

Hello, hope all is well.

My name is Raphael Lima, my family owns a small chain of optical stores in Northeast of Brazil, we are currently looking for a new supplier of daily and monthly disposable contact lenses, the lenses must have good quality and competitive price. Does your company currently export to Brazil? Can you export to Brazil? Can you send me a price sheet with min order size?

We are also looking for the right company for us to represent in the Brazilian wholesale market (nationwide), 200 million people consumer market.

We currently own 1 wholesale distributor with about 100 clients in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) including the biggest chain (New Vision Oticas), we also own 3 optical stores, one of them in downtown of Natal (our state capital) and 2 stores in high end shopping malls in the suburbs.

The brand we currently represent is a national brand with no international recognition, they are called Solotica Lenses (*****), and we have exclusivity in the state (RN).

We are currently a small firm operating only in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), we have been in the business for the past 30 years. Right now we sell between 30 and 40 thousand contact lenses annually, however if we have a new product that is both good in quality and has competitive price, we believe we can easily spread it though out the country in a short period of time. Please note that contact lenses is not our primary business at the moment, hence the low annual sales, we do more glass lenses, frames, etc. We believe NOW is the time to invest in the contact lenses side of the business as this market is growing exponentially nationwide.

I think a goal of selling 1 million lenses in the first year is very reasonable, maybe we can even do a lot more, it all depends on the price/quality combination. We already have many contacts in other larger metropolitan areas, such as: Sao Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Goiania (GO) and Salvador (BA), so we can put in place sub-distributors very quickly.

I was wondering if you would be able o send me a price list with daily disposable and monthly disposable lenses prices and minimum order size, for both clear and colored lenses. Also, I would like to ask a question: Should you guys decide to give a shot to our partnership, how wills this work? Will you send us some material so we can do a feasibility study? (Print material, samples lenses, etc)

I look forward to hearing back from you; I hope we can do business in the near future, bringing a wonderful new brand into this wonderful new emerging market called Brazil. I suggest we move quickly because the sleeping giant is waking up! lol

Please let me know what is the best phone number and email address I can contact you directly.

Thank you,

Raphael Lima
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+1-508-333-1496