Possible Company to Bring Coloured and Possibly Custom Coloured to North America

[onthemarkdesign]

Hello everyone, I am looking to start up a new company and I wanted to ask how many North American members would like to be able to get coloured systainers, sortainers and possibly custom coloured systainers and sortainers. Basically we are trying to get every systainer and sortainer that Tanos makes in every colour plus possibly custom colours. I will also most likely will be bringing back the First Aid Systainer but this time it will be for good no more limited time. Our main goal will be to provide North American companies with their own systainers and sortainers as well as I are going to try and get them into the medical field. The only way we will try and bring this to the consumer is if there is a lot of people wanting to have coloured and possibly custom coloured systainers and sortainers counting on that Tanos doesn't want me to order a large order of the custom colours. So if you want to see this come to North America please leave a comment, also if you can spread the word that there may possibly be a company that is bringing coloured systainers and sortainers to North America I would appreciate it. I will have more information about this in the next month or two because we are still in negotiations with Tanos as well as trying to find potential investors.

 

[DB10]

I'm sure there is plenty of demand for this product and good on you.
But I have to ask the question, why haven't Tanos tapped into what must be the largest market outside of Europe for this product before.

 

[Holzhacker]

Good idea, I would probably buy a few.
However, before you get too deep into this I would suggest you see if you can talk with Peter H. He can probably give you lots of insight on how feasible this is or isn't based on his Festainer experience.

 

[semenza]

Yes please. Colors plus the full line available from one supplier (+NAINA) would be great!

Seth

 

[Billedis]

I would be interested in purchasing some.  Maybe a Woodpecker red one too!  Thank you.  Bill

 

[gsdvorak]

I would be interested in some depending on pricing- it would be hard for me to justify much of an additional cost for a color change.  Preference would be red with black tloc.

Good Luck as you plan your new venture!

Regards,
Gerald

 

[peter halle]

Good idea, I would probably buy a few.
However, before you get too deep into this I would suggest you see if you can talk with Peter H. He can probably give you lots of insight on how feasible this is or isn't based on his Festainer experience.

Always willing to be helpful / give advice.  Send me a PM if you are interested.

Peter

 

[Aclaw]

Definitely interested. Mainly red and Blue on my end.  Also interested in the custom aspects as well.

 

[AlexThePalex]

I don't know which one anymore, but one of the dealers participating here offered a pretty large selection of Tanos systainers for a couple of years.

They quit selling them.

 

[travisj]

I would be interested.

 

[onthemarkdesign]

I would be interested in purchasing some.  Maybe a Woodpecker red one too!  Thank you.  Bill

The only way we would be able to do a woodpecker one is if we signed a contract with them and also only if no other company is using the same red as Woodpecker because that colour would already be a trade mark for that other company and we cannot duplicate colours. Also I just found out that to do a custom colour that Tanos doesn't already make and have in-stock we would have to place an order in the thousands to get that custom colour.

 

[Billy stray]

I'm in for sure, like Seth said  + NAINA would be great

 

[rst]

I would definitly buy, I have seventy some and am presently keeping them sorted with different colored latchs.

 

[canadamike]

I am keen on the Tanos system, its been very well thought out. I'm sure your business plan has lots of market research to justify the distribution investment. You might want to talk to someone at Lee Valley; they have an arrangement with Tanos already to produce a few systainers for their Veratis offerings. LV is from Canada, much smaller market than the US. But they may have some ideas to share.

Here is a link to a couple of their offerings:
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=70681&cat=1,71990

and
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=71804&cat=1,43326,68749

Let us know how it goes!

 

[tallgrass]

i would be very interested. i already have over 50 and need more.
color cordination wouuld be nice.

 

[peter halle]

[member=53315]Kerf Design[/member]

If you are going all in on this venture you might want to investigate getting into the Tanos Mobil system.  To the best of my knowledge this system is not available in the US and that may be partially due to the cost.

I would also suspect that whereas the systems were designed for the Euro vans that only are now becoming more popular here that contributed just as much to the absence.

Right now you can purchase a Ford Transit Van and have it upfitted by different manufacturers including the Sortimo system.  In fact there are 12 different upfitters with facilities within 30 miles of the Ford plant in Kansas City for factory orders.

I believe that financing thru Ford may also be available which may help with the perceived cost.

Also having a US location might help with your costs when there is a large disparity in Canadian or US dollar to Euro currency.

Just a thought for you.

Peter

 

[peter halle]

And just as an interesting read:  http://www.autonews.com/article/20140623/OEM10/306239992/suppliers-outfit-transit-vans-in-massive-kansas-city-cave-complex

Peter

 

[Tyler Ernsberger]

I would be interested in different colors.  Good luck with your business!!!

 

[Cheese]

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]
That article about SubTropolis is pretty cool. With 70% less energy costs and 50% lower lease rates, what's not to like?

Thanks for the interesting post.

 

[jimbo51]

LV is from Canada, much smaller market than the US.

Lee Valley sells in the US. I just bought a black midi systainer during their free shipping offer.

I would probably buy a few sustainers in a different color. I might put my Dewalts in yellow sustainers.

The biggest issue I think would be the cost of stocking a variety of colors. Lee Valley sells the Tanos line in light grey with systainers also in black. Woodcraft sells Tanos in anthracite. They are decent sized companies and neither of them does a large variety of colors. When you have to stock 6-8 colors, the sheer number of boxes in stock becomes rather large given that Tanos probably has a specific minimum order for wholesale.

Good luck.