Hub holds the distributor picture for a market — built once by our analysts, kept current, and scored against whatever brief you bring to it. The six weeks of assembly that used to start every project is already behind you.
In some markets a distributor search is a research task. In Jakarta, Riyadh or Yangon it is a fieldwork task, and that gap is the whole reason Hub exists. We go deep on a market before we open it rather than covering everywhere thinly.
There is no single list of who distributes what. What exists is fragmented, years out of date, or behind a language barrier.
Coverage, licences and warehouse capacity are routinely overstated in a first meeting. We check them before you get there.
The traditional answer is flights, introductions and six weeks of someone's time. It is slow because it is manual, not because it is hard.
Built on everything we have learned about what to look for, where to look and who to ask. The work that used to take our analysts weeks on every project is now done once per market and kept current.
Registries, licensing bodies, customs records, tender portals and local-language sources.
Licences, capacity, coverage and the brands they already carry — verified, not taken on trust.
The same fifty-plus fields in every market, so like compares with like across countries.
The engine that ranks them applies the criteria our analysts weigh by hand, tuned each time to your brief. How the data is built, verified and kept current.
The same market gives different answers depending on what you are selling. A capital equipment launch and a generics launch need almost nothing in common from a partner, so the criteria are built fresh each time.
More than fifty fields per distributor, gathered and checked by our analysts rather than scraped. The exact field set shifts by country and sector — this is the shape of it.
Every profile is reviewed by an analyst before it enters the database.
You have picked the country. Now you need the partner. Get from the whole market to a defensible shortlist without six weeks of consultant time or twenty meetings booked on spec.
For brand principalsYour current partner may not still be the right one. Benchmark who you are with against everyone else in the market, scored on the same criteria and the same data on both sides.
Talk to us about a benchmarkSkip the desk research and keep the client relationship. Run Hub under your own brand and spend billable hours on advice rather than list-building.
DistributorIQ for consultanciesBe found by the brands already searching your market. Claim your profile, mark yourself open to enquiries, and watch live opportunities in your sector.
Hub for distributorsFour countries across four sectors, with two more in build. Each market is researched to the same standard before it opens.
Need a market we have not built yet? We open new markets on demand, and our consulting practice runs the search in the meantime. Tell us which one.
Tell us the country and the sector. If it is on Hub we will open your access. If it is not, we will come back with a proposal for the research.