Small and tiny retailers very welcome here.

We had a lovely comment from a new customer yesterday when she told us that we had been more helpful and approachable than any of the other potential suppliers she had contacted. Some had ignored her requests and others had been patronising in their responses

We have never quite understood this snobbery about supplying small retailers. 

We understand that if you are geared up to supply large multi national retailers you can't supply small businesses. Your products go out on pallets and you are not geared up to pick and dispatch smaller parcels. We can't drop ship for exactly the same reason which is why we have a partner to do it for us. For more information on our drop shipping programme please click here

What we don't get is why wholesalers in the same market as Best Years put barriers to trade up. When we go to a trade show we are always amazed at how many companies have prohibitive minimum order quantities. We pay £000s to be at a trade show and we do not want to let any potential customer go! 

When we ask our fellow exhibitors why they insist on minimum order quantities they give various reasons along the lines of unprofitable to pick and ship and needing shops to stock enough lines to give them brand presence.

Well our reason for not having a minimum order quantity is quite simple. Our knitted and crochet toys sell so well that having placed a small order retailers come back and order more. Sometimes its another small order, and sometimes its a bit bigger, but which ever is fine with us. We don't have a minimum order quantity because we are confident enough in our ranges to allow retailers to test them in their stores knowing they will come back to us once they have sold out.

So even if you only have £50 to trial soft toys in your shop Best Years are happy to work with you. We have a wide range of wholesale crochet and knitted toys and your business is important to us. Marks and Spencers started as one small shop and look at them now!