Our Brands & Services
Sourcing
City
Sourcing City was launched in September 2004 & was Europe’s first online
‘Promotional Merchandise Sourcing Service’. Today the company is the
clear UK market leader in online trade sourcing services. Over recent years Sourcing
City has created numerous innovative services, all of which were specifically designed
to assist trade distributors & suppliers to grow their business.
Sourcing City’s distributor customers collectively represent around 50% (£450m)
of the entire UK promotional merchandise market spend.
Every major UK supplier features their full ranges in Sourcing City, together with
suppliers from Europe & indeed worldwide. The Sourcing City product database
contains in the region of 100,000 individual promotional products from over 2500
suppliers worldwide, with the site generating in excess of 120,000 ‘Click
Through Enquires’ per month for our supplier partners.
In addition, Sourcing City is also committed to informing the market on market size,
buying behaviour, product analysis & trends. The company carries out regular
market studies which for the first time bring quantative data to the market place.
These studies are published to the promotional merchandise market in partnership
with the BPMA.
Sourcing
Planet
Sourcing Planet was launched in January 2008 & is the UK’s only ‘Product
Database Driven Sales Lead Generator’. Sourcing Planet generates live promotional
merchandise sales leads from corporate companies, which are in turn sold to our
distributor customers.
Skin Sites
Skin Sites are over-branded derivatives of Sourcing City using the Sourcing City
product database as a ‘back office’. Sourcing City has built, &
manages over 70 ‘Skin Sites’ for UK distributor companies. Eco-Skin
Sites are also available; these eco sites exclusively contain the largest selection
of ‘eco friendly promotional merchandise’ products in Europe.
Bespoke Website Building Services are also available through our Dynamic Web Creations
division.
Dynamic
Mailing
Dynamic Mailing is the UK’s market leader in trade e-shot services. Dynamic
mailing offers access to the UK’s highest quality, & fully qualified,
‘Trade Promotional Merchandise Buyer’ database. The Dynamic Mailing
E-Shot service enables suppliers to inform key industry trade buyers about their
latest products & offers. Our database contains over 3500+ quality & qualified
trade promotional merchandise buyer e-mail contacts, in around 2000 distributor
companies.
Dynamic
Office Lite
Dynamic Office Lite is a business management system integrated within Sourcing City.
Sourcing City enables you to create: Ideas Lists & Quotations, which Dynamic
Office Lite converts into Purchase Orders, Customer Acknowledgements & Invoices.
You can use all, or any of these functions independently, and all of your documents
can be created with your own logo & colours.
Dynamic Office Lite also provides an online document filing system, within the ‘customer
area’ of Sourcing City. Dynamic Office Lite enables you to swiftly create
new documents & even provides an online progress chasing system to manage your
quotations & orders. The system also contains a service whereby you can create
your own marketing e-shots for your customers.
Dynamic
Office Software
Dynamic Office Software is a comprehensive Bespoke Business Management Software
for distributors. The server based software manages all business processes from
quotation to invoice, together with extensive business management reporting. Designed
by the Dynamic Image team, the software provides an effective solution to creating
an efficiently run a business.
The Company
All of the above brands are owned by Dynamic Image Ltd which was founded in November 2002.
The founding team had over 100 years experience as major distributors in the promotional
merchandise industry before moving to the ‘trade side’ of the industry.
The team knows what corporate end user customers expect from promotional merchandise
& this is reflected in all of the services that we deliver.
The company’s founder & chairman David Long, was previously managing director of Dowlis Group and led the team to grow the company from £2.4m to £12.5m turnover over 12 years (1990–2002), firmly establishing the company as the largest independent Promotional Merchandise Company in the UK. He was also chairman of Promota for a number of years. In 2007 the industry’s leading trade association presented David with the ‘Roger Saunders Award’ for outstanding services to the industry.
Alistair Mylchreest (CEO) joined the industry in 2006. Alistair had a background
in senior management within the banking industry & was responsible for the launch
of Sourcing Planet. He now leads our team of dedicated & friendly industry professionals.
Based in Farnborough the company has many faces known throughout the trade & prides
itself on setting standards for customer service & innovation.
