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Private label & product sourcing

Your product. Your brand. Our expertise.

Whether you’re developing a new product, building a private-label line, looking for a new manufacturing source, or trying to solve a supply problem, Sullivans can help.

For more than 30 years, we have worked with manufacturers and suppliers around the world to source, develop, import, warehouse, and distribute products.

We put that experience to work for you.

Let's talk about your product

Private label without building the infrastructure

Creating your own product shouldn’t require building your own sourcing, importing, and logistics operation. Sullivans can help manage the process from concept to finished product.

One relationship. More of the process handled for you.

Depending on your needs, we can assist with:

  • Product sourcing and development
  • Manufacturer identification
  • Custom product specifications
  • Samples and product evaluation
  • Packaging and labeling
  • Private-label branding
  • Production coordination
  • Quality expectations
  • Importing and freight
  • U.S. warehousing
  • Distribution and fulfillment

Why private label?

Build your brand

Put your name on products developed for your business and your customers.

Differentiate your products

Create products with your own specifications, features, packaging, sizing, or branding instead of offering the same products available everywhere else.

Create better margin opportunities

Greater control over sourcing, specifications, packaging, and positioning can create opportunities for improved margins.

Own the customer experience

From the product itself to the packaging it arrives in, private label gives you greater control over how your brand is presented.

Build long-term value

A successful private-label product becomes more than something you sell. It becomes part of the value of your brand.

Global product sourcing

Tell us what you need. We'll help you find It.

Sometimes you don’t need to invent a new product. You simply need a better way to source it.

Sullivans can work with you to identify manufacturing and sourcing options based on your specifications, quantities, quality requirements, packaging needs, and target costs.

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We can help when you're:

  • Searching for a new manufacturing partner
  • Experiencing supply chain or availability problems
  • Looking for alternative sources
  • Developing a new product
  • Looking to improve an existing product
  • Consolidating suppliers
  • Exploring custom packaging or branding
  • Trying to improve costs
  • Moving production or diversifying your supply base

More than finding a factory

Finding someone who can manufacture a product is the easy part. Finding the right product, at the right quality, at the right cost, from a reliable source is where experience matters.

Sullivans helps manage the details between an idea and a finished product.

Product development

Start with an idea, sample, existing product, drawing, photograph, or specification. We help translate what you need into a product that manufacturers can produce.

Supplier sourcing

We work to identify manufacturing options capable of meeting your product, quantity, quality, and cost requirements.

Sampling & evaluation

Review samples and make adjustments before committing to full production.

Production

Once specifications are approved, we help coordinate manufacturing and production.

Import & logistics

We can help manage the movement of your products from the manufacturer through the import process and into the United States.

Warehousing & distribution

Need somewhere for the product to go once it arrives? Sullivans can also support U.S. warehousing and distribution for the right programs.

One partner from concept to delivery

Instead of managing multiple companies across the process, work with one experienced U.S-based partner.

Why Sullivans?

30+ years of experience

We’ve spent decades sourcing, importing, warehousing, and distributing products.

We understand the whole supply chain

Cost at the factory is only part of the equation. Packaging, freight, importing, inventory, warehousing, and distribution all affect the final economics of a product. We help look at the complete picture.

U.S-based operations

Our Downers Grove, Illinois operation gives you a U.S.-based partner for communication, inventory, warehousing, and distribution.

Global sourcing experience

Our experience working with overseas manufacturers helps us understand the challenges involved in turning a specification into a finished product.

Flexible solutions

You may need a completely new product. You may need a private-label version of an existing product. Or you may simply need someone to find a better source. We start with your need — not a predetermined program.

Have a product challenge?

You don’t need to know exactly how to solve it before you call us.

Bring us a product idea, a sourcing challenge, an existing item, or simply a problem you’re trying to solve.