MORE than 650 Pharmacy Alliance pharmacies across Australia now have access to the Chinese market, through a new agreement with Australian Health Products Central (AHPC).
This week the supplier launched its flagship eStore on the Daigousales.com marketplace on Chinese social media platform WeChat, created specifically to give Australian businesses the ability to sell to consumers in China via buying agents - known as Daigou.
AHPC is an Australian owned and operated business based in Sydney, with Pharmacy Alliance members able to opt in to the company's export program - thereby giving them the ability to participate in the burgeoning Chinese market.
Pharmacy Alliance executive chairman and co-owner, Simon Reynolds, said the AHPC flagship eStore in the DaigouSales.com marketplace would be the only official online location for Daigou consumers to purchase products from the group and participating Pharmacy Alliance members.
"This will also provide an opportunity for AHPC suppliers to enter the China market via the fast growing Daigou-to-Consumer (D2C) cross border trading channel."
Reynolds said Australian products were increasingly being sought out by the growing middle class in China looking for high quality and trusted international items.
"We, along with participating Pharmacy Alliance pharmacies, will now be exporting to China and the process will be incredibly easy, so easy in fact that we can continue focus on day to day operations, while DaigouSales.com does all the work for us," he added.
DaigouSales.com ceo Mathew McDougall said the AHPC site would offer 30,000 pharmacy products, effectively enabling consumers in mainland China to purchase products as if they were locals within Australia.
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