East General Promotional & Packaging Mfg. Blog

My name is Valvert R. Thompson, Vice President Sales with East General Promotional and Packaging Mfg., and this in my first day on the job as “Blog Master” for our factory. I started working with East General in 2006, at which time I was assigned the daunting task of capturing market share from the hundreds of Hong Kong and Taiwan based trading companies that sell our promotional and packaging products abroad.

Unknown to most, at the factory level our margins are insanely thin with most of the dollars going to either the Hong Kong or Taiwan based “middleman” or large overseas importing organizations.

For many years Chinese government regulations prohibiting Chinese factories from dealing direct fostered this “low end of the totem pole” scenario, however with relaxed legislation and the advent of e-commerce factories, such as ours, have began to improve upon their marketing and sales skills with the hopes of, obviously increasing sales, but more importantly to reshape the perception of factories as being just order takers.

With East General’s blog initiative I hope to share with buyers of promotional and packaging products new products that we design in-house in addition to information that affects our industry as a whole, such a trade shows, changing importing regulations, RMB currency issues, and so forth.

Thanks for visiting our blog!

Valvert R. Thompson
Vice President- Sales
East General Promotional and Packaging Mfg.
www.egpromotional.com