The team behind Global Showroom started selling brands wholesale in the UK and Europe in 2018 and now have many contacts and a truly Global Footprint.
During the first two years of Covid, from 2019 through 2021, we were forced to move many aspects of our business online, because all of the traditional offline wholesale channels, such as trade shows and showrooms, were closed. By the end of 2021 we were working from Australia to Los Angeles.
In the second half of 2021 we had more orders from the Middle East than any other region, probably due to the fact that retailers worldwide were in a cash-flow crisis because no one knew if they would be open in Summer 2022, whereas the Middle East had no cash-flow problems due to their immense wealth from fossil fuels, principally oil and gas.
In February 2022 we moved to the Middle East, and for the next 2 years we developed our business across the UAE (inc Dubai and Abu Dhabi), Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
In November 2024 we moved into South East Asia, with a new base in Malaysia, on the border of Singapore, improving our coverage of the Asian fashion hubs - principally Singapore and Japan.
Since the uncertainty caused by recent tariff changes, we are very focussed on working with brands based outside Asia, as we believe that this is the best time since the end of WW2, for non-Asia brands to rapidly develop market share.