Anchor Bakeware

Quality Export, LLC

01.03.11

For independent retailers looking to add kitchen and cookware to their lineup, a good place to start is Michigan based, Quality Export LLC. According to manager and owner, Rafi Kashat, the company carries a wide offering of the most wanted items that are fast sellers in any retail environment. “We carry between 250 and 300 different items for the kitchen,” Kashat says. “We sell to retailers small and large, as well as supermarkets, other wholesalers and jobbers.” Quality Export has its roots in groceries, having come from that business back in 1986, but then Kashat and his partners came up with the idea of focusing instead on wholesaling just kitchen products and cleaning supplies, getting their start by buying closeout deals. It turned out to be a smart move.

“Right now our best seller is not just one item, but the category of cookware overall,” Kashat says. “Bakeware is our big seller, but we do equally well in other kitchen items and cleaning supplies, too,” he notes. The company carries a wide line of different, quality items, but one point is consistent. “We have the best prices,” Kashat says. “We get our products from manufacturers and other vendors, and we also buy a lot of closeout deals. So we can pass those savings right on to our customers,” he adds. Among the kitchenware brand names Quality Export carries are Nordicware, Rubbermaid, Corningware, Baker’s Secret, Tramontina and others. Because of the company’s extensive lineup of products, Kashat assures buyers that they’ll enjoy a healthy profit on any of his goods. “Most of our retailers get a 50 or 60 percent markup, and some even more,” he says. “It all depends on what they retail the items for.”

Source: Independent Retailer