Mug Press

Having had been in this business for several months, I built up a rough knowledge of how much minimum ordering quantities are for most dinnerware products. Unlike at retail (e.g. Marks and Spencer), where you are allowed to buy 1 or 2 plates/ cups/ mugs... wholesale sells masses of products with a minimum ordering quantity. The reason for so, is that wholesale/ factories, sells to trading companies/ direct to retailers, at a very low price. Obviously, for them to make money, they have to sell in big bulk- it's a bit like how Costco works in the US... except on a even larger scale.

For you to understand in a bigger picture- to order something like Mugs, from an outsourced factory, you usually have to order at least 3,000 pieces.

Sadly, to the big boys like Walmart/ Ikea, who I believe sells millions of mugs everyday... Ordering 3,000 is like a speckle of dust...

In fact, they probably order something like 40 containers (below is an img of a container) worth of the same mug every month.

Let me just tell you that for 1 container, you can fit around 30,000- 35,000 mugs. Now thats a lot of mugs of tea!

If you can see on this blog title right now, this buisness is only a boutique, and often times, it's pretty difficult to order anything at small quantities... because frankly, factories would rather pay attention to people like Walmart.

As mentioned in our recent post, we may be heading towards the direction of pushing mug designs.

And since finding out how each mug design needs to be produced at the quantity of at least 1,000 (if you're lucky)... eyebrows started to raise. Not in a good way.

In reaction to so, I went on to search how little companies go on to produce mugs. Surely there's a way with a smaller quantity.

I turned to my old friend YOUTUBE. Turned out. A little kid in Australia is already making personalized mugs with his little machine. How cute.