International brands search DistributorIQ when they are choosing a partner in your market. Our analysts have already built profiles for thousands of distributors — but a profile cannot tell a brand whether you actually want the enquiry. That is what a listing does.
All three are in the database. Only one has said it is looking.
Our analysts build distributor profiles from regulatory registers, company filings and primary research. Those profiles are accurate, and they are silent. They describe what a company does. They cannot say whether it is taking on new principals this quarter, or whether it closed its books to new lines two years ago.
A brand working through a shortlist has no way to tell the difference. So they contact everyone, and most of those approaches go nowhere — wasting their time and yours.
A listing closes that gap. It marks you as open to enquiries, puts your own contact route in front of the brand, and lets you correct anything in the analyst record that is out of date.
When a brand runs a search, our scoring model ranks distributors against their specific brief — coverage, regulatory status, channel access, capability, portfolio conflicts. A listing carries no weight in that score, and no amount of money changes it. A distributor who fits the brief better than you will rank above you.
What a listing does is make you visible and reachable. Your profile is marked open to enquiries wherever it appears. In browse mode, premium listings appear higher in the directory and are labelled so brands can see why. And where two distributors score equally against a brief, the one who is available is shown first — because a partner who will not take your line is no use regardless of fit.
Brands can switch that last behaviour off. We tell them it exists and let them decide. Read how scoring works.
One listing, one annual fee, and the brands searching your market can see that you are open.