Category Experts

Your bridge to specialization

Today, within the Test Rite Group, we possess the ability to offer product and market knowledge as qualified business development consultants. We believe that this product category expertise is integral to gaining and maintaining trust with our client partners. With our vast world-wide network, we are able to offer keen insights with regards to market demands and can mobilize a wealth of resources for construction of a business road map and implementation strategy across a vast number of product categories.

Our consulting services include:

Identifying effect of design and merchandize trends on our client partner's core categories
Presenting coordinated programs for design initiatives
Customer service and loyalty programs
Develop brands that are unique to market place
Consumer trends and market behavior
Networking Resources

Our expertise includes the following categories: Tools, Garden, Hardware, Home Decor, Outdoor Living, Office Furniture, Barbeque. Lighting, Electrical, Home Care, Sporting Goods, IT & Computer Accessories, Auto, Storage, Housewares, Pet Supplies, Office Products, Outdoor & Indoor Furniture.

Tools
Over the last three decades, the Test Rite Group has built a reputation as the world-wide experts in the Tool product category, which has become the foundation of our global network. Currently we are producing a catalogue of thousands of “Do It Yourself” tools for most of the largest international name brands in the business. The key to our continued success in this category is in understanding the customers in varied regions and the evolution of local Tool trends in those marketplaces. This allows us to localize the tools, and the manner in which those tools are packaged, in order to maximize usability in the target market.
Home Decor
Home decor is a natural extension to our DIY category expertise, providing our customers world-wide with high value products at reasonable prices that transform even the most modest living spaces into comfortable stylish living environments. Test Rite leverages its global sourcing and logistics allowing for variety and pricing that translates into repeat business.
 
Furniture
The key to logistics is to ensure goods arrive on time and in good order. Test Rite’s experience across In the category of Furniture, Test Rite provides a robust portfolio of in-house products and carefully selected world-class brand names. We have been able to leverage this category expertise in a number of markets where we have demonstrated the ability to help our client partners take a strong position quickly after entry into the market space.
 
Candles
The world-wide candle industry boasts a hot US multi-billion dollar marketplace. The Test Rite Group has a dedicated comprehensive business unit that is solely focused on continued development of candle category expertise. Client partners targeting the candle business must have the hottest information on future trends in order to avoid getting burned in this fiery market. With the latest survey information obtained from key constituents and world-wide candle makers, our clients can do their planning and purchasing on the cutting edge of style and fashion. At Test Rite, we believe that expertise in this product category is an essential offering that differentiates the group from the typical trading model.
 
Lighting
Test Rite’s ability to offer a comprehensive picture of the world-wide lighting fixtures business sector is unsurpassed. Several times a year, the Test Rite Group circles the globe in search of the brightest new styles and dazzling technology developments in the lighting industry. In this higher tech category where items are sorted not only by style, but the sources of light used and the location of those sources, it is important to wield a wealth of expertise in order to shed light on every future business opportunities.
 

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