Made in China and Vietnam. Answered for by us.
Sourcing Allies is a Swedish-owned sourcing and contract manufacturing company. We find factories in China and Vietnam, build products there with them and deliver the finished goods to the US, the UK and Europe.
More than a million products so far. Every one of them has a name you can call.
Started in Sweden in 2006. Still Swedish-owned.
We started Sourcing Allies in Sweden in 2006 with one habit, and we've kept it: check it before it moves on. The drawing before tooling is cut. The sample before mass production. The batch before it leaves the factory.
Twenty years on, the owners are the same kind of people. The work has moved closer to the factories. We have an office in Ningbo and people working in Vietnam. Clients meet us in Bellevue, Washington, or in Djursholm, just outside Stockholm.
One project: 148 components, 72 suppliers, 6 countries. We built a full assembly line from scratch and delivered on time, with one point of contact from start to finish.
China isn't cheap. It's efficient.
- We don't race to the bottom. China's strength is a complete supply chain, from raw material to finished product, often within a few hours' drive. The lowest price is a race nobody wins, so we don't enter it.
- You'll know which factory builds it. Not a trading company. Not an agent behind another agent. A named factory in China or Vietnam, with our people on its floor.
- Sometimes we say no. "You don't need to switch suppliers." "For one simple part, you don't need us." We say these things when they're true.
A real company behind every contract
Day to day, that means drawing review, factory audits, samples, production, inspection and freight. See how we find and vet a manufacturer, how the sourcing process runs, and what working with a China sourcing agent looks like with us.
Our own legal entities
We contract through our own companies in Sweden, the US and China. There's a registered business behind every invoice.
People who live in Ningbo
Our delivery managers live in Ningbo and speak Chinese and English. They go to the factories and walk the lines themselves.
An NDA on every project
We sign one on every project, before any files go out.
Sourcing Allies leadership: four names, not a logo wall
We never put a layer between the people who run Sourcing Allies and the people who buy from us. There are four of us, and on most projects you'll know at least one of us by name before the first sample is made.
- Benson ZhouSourcing
- Annie ZhangOffice Manager
- Nico ZhengSourcing
- Tom TangQuality Control
Sourcing Allies, in a few answers
Sourcing Allies is a Swedish-owned sourcing and contract manufacturing company. It finds, vets and manages factories in China and Vietnam and delivers finished products or components to clients in the US, UK and EU. Its work covers die casting, metal stamping, plastic injection moulding and aluminium extrusion, as well as full product assembly.
Sourcing Allies was founded in Sweden in 2006, about twenty years ago, and it is still Swedish-owned. Since then it has shipped more than a million products from Asia to markets worldwide.
The Sourcing Allies leadership team is Eric Bengtson (CEO), Niclas Bengtson (VP Sales), Bruce Zheng (COO) and Jeff Crawshaw (Director of Operations). They work alongside bilingual delivery managers based in Ningbo, who visit factories in person.
Sourcing Allies has offices in Bellevue, Washington (USA), Djursholm (Sweden) and Ningbo (China), and runs manufacturing and sourcing operations in China and Vietnam. It contracts through its own legal entities in Sweden, the US and China.
Three offices and one complete manufacturing base
Tell us what you're making
Bring drawings, a prototype or just a question. We'd like to hear about it.
A drawing, a sketch or a paragraph is enough to start.