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A six step process for effective expansion
Understand the opportunity and requirements
The first country you choose doesn’t just set your launch date.
Compliance failures rarely surface at launch.
Ads don’t kill margin overseas.
Most brands launch everywhere at once.
Brands rarely fail to grow.
Most brands don’t lose internationally because they picked the wrong market.
You're already shipping to Europe. Start operating in it.
Amazon handed prep work back to sellers, and the consequences of getting it wrong land on you rather than on them. A carton that arrives wrong gets refused, refused stock sits somewhere earning nothing, and a launch date moves.
FBM keeps the things worth keeping. Your packaging, customer data & margin. It also puts Amazon’s performance metrics directly on your dispatch times, which is a comfortable trade at home and a much harder one from four thousand miles away.
On a marketplace, a slow delivery is the marketplace’s fault. On your own store it is yours. The box that arrives, the day it arrives and how easy it is to send back are all part of what someone bought, and they decide whether a first order becomes a second one.
Treated as a cost, a return is written off twice, once on the refund and again on the unit. Treated as inventory, a lot of it goes back on sale. What decides which of those happens is how quickly the unit gets looked at and how far it had to travel to be looked at.
Stock held inside the market it sells into arrives as a domestic delivery. No customs event on the order, and nothing for your customer to settle before the courier hands the parcel over. Ours sits in the UK, the Netherlands and the US, which covers...
End-to-end playbooks for cross-border growth
Pre/post-event intelligence tied to EU expansion
Supplements and EU health regulations
Cosmetics and personal care expansion
Sports & outdoor brand expansion into Europe
Selling clothing brands into European markets
CE marking, WEEE & compliance in Europe
Amazon, Otto, Zalando & European strategy
Market-by-market guides, incl. size & sector data
VAT, customs & import tax across EU markets
Selling requirements and extended producer responsibility rules
Warehousing, fulfilment & cross-border shipping
The EU General Product Safety Regulation has been fully applicable since 13 December 2024, and it classifies non-EU online marketplace sellers as importers with full product safety accountability. US brands selling on Amazon EU, eBay, Zalando or bol.com need an EU-based Responsible Person holding the product documentation. Selling without one is already non-compliant.