We are an English couple living in Sosua. After spending 6 months here we can see the desperation of our fellow ex-pats for baked beans!!
This got us thinking, and we are now setting the wheels in motion with our Lawyer to establish an import and distribution business. This would supply British products to the North Coast initially.
What we really need to know is how feasible this idea is?
By the time we have bought the product, paid the airfreight, handling, import taxes and transport costs the price is going to be significantly higher than you would pay in Sainsbury's or Tesco's!!
We need to know the sort of products people would like and what would be considered a reasonable price to pay bearing in mind the costs involved.
If anyone can spare the time we would appreciate your feedback on our idea. An ideal response would be your wishlist for your top 5 items and a suggested price.
The list of things we have in mind are:-
Heinz baked beans
Heinz Salad Cream
HP Sauce
Colmans English Mustard Powder
Oxo cubes
Marmite
Branston Pickle
Bisto gravy granules
Tetleys/PG Tips Teabags
Birds Custard Powder
Biscuits (Hobnobs,Custard Creams)
Weetabix
Ribena
Robinsons Orange Squash
Cadburys chocolate
Sweets (Jelly babies, Liquorice Allsorts, Haribou)
We are not going to offer alcohol initially as it complicates our licence issues and we just need to start simply. Later on we will look at products such as Guiness, Stella Artois, John Smith's Smooth and Cider.
Thanks for your time and we look forward to your responses.
Alex and Juliette
This got us thinking, and we are now setting the wheels in motion with our Lawyer to establish an import and distribution business. This would supply British products to the North Coast initially.
What we really need to know is how feasible this idea is?
By the time we have bought the product, paid the airfreight, handling, import taxes and transport costs the price is going to be significantly higher than you would pay in Sainsbury's or Tesco's!!
We need to know the sort of products people would like and what would be considered a reasonable price to pay bearing in mind the costs involved.
If anyone can spare the time we would appreciate your feedback on our idea. An ideal response would be your wishlist for your top 5 items and a suggested price.
The list of things we have in mind are:-
Heinz baked beans
Heinz Salad Cream
HP Sauce
Colmans English Mustard Powder
Oxo cubes
Marmite
Branston Pickle
Bisto gravy granules
Tetleys/PG Tips Teabags
Birds Custard Powder
Biscuits (Hobnobs,Custard Creams)
Weetabix
Ribena
Robinsons Orange Squash
Cadburys chocolate
Sweets (Jelly babies, Liquorice Allsorts, Haribou)
We are not going to offer alcohol initially as it complicates our licence issues and we just need to start simply. Later on we will look at products such as Guiness, Stella Artois, John Smith's Smooth and Cider.
Thanks for your time and we look forward to your responses.
Alex and Juliette