Trading
The Trading House Deal Model
A trading house, not a broker: we sign the contract and answer for specification, price and timing.
Nine product groups we arrange against your request — for export, import or the domestic market:
Private label: goods produced under the buyer's own brand.
Full catalogWho this is for
Who signs the contract, who answers for specification and timing, at what moment obligations arise — three questions this page answers.
Buyers with a nomenclature and dates — wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, retail chains: you have the specification, the volume and the destination, and you need one accountable counterparty.
Suppliers and producers — you have the goods and the capacity, and you need a buyer and a party that takes the contract and the logistics on itself.
Traders with a ready deal — you have the buyer and the seller, and you need an execution circuit. Your counterparties remain yours: we execute the deal and never go around you.
We are a party to the contract
We take on the arrangement and coordination of the entire supply chain, engaging specialized partners — carriers, warehouses, inspections, customs representatives. You get one agreement and one accountable counterparty; the scope of responsibility at every stage is fixed in the contract.
We own no vessels, trucks or warehouses, and we do not hide it: the capacity is provided by specialized partners. We arrange and control the process and answer to you under the contract. We are a party to the contract, not a link in a broker chain: the schemes we do not work with are set out separately.
Schemes we do not work withHow a deal proceeds
Two symmetrical chains: one starts with your request, the other with your goods. In both, ALPHA GROUP is a party to the contract: we contract both sides of the deal and arrange execution, engaging specialized partners.
You buy
You send a request: product, volume, destination. We select and verify the source, agree specification and price, sign the contract and arrange delivery to your point.
You sell
You send an offer: product, volume, shipment basis. If there is matching buyer demand, we agree specification and price, sign the contract and arrange logistics through to final delivery; if there is none, we say so directly.
Both chains close with a single document — the contract. What exactly it fixes is set out below.
Deal stages
Six steps from the first request to the closing documents. Each step has its own output: the quotation, the signed contract, the shipping and the closing documents.
Request
You send a request for quotation (RFQ) or an offer: product, volume, terms, direction.
Source selection
For your request we look for matching supply or demand — among producers and buyers whom we verify for the specific deal.
Quotation
You receive a quotation: price, specification, delivery basis, validity period.
Contract
The terms are fixed in the contract: specification, Incoterms delivery basis, payment, liability of the parties.
Logistics and quality control
We arrange transport and inspection at loading against the agreed specification, engaging partner carriers and inspection companies.
Delivery and documents
The cargo is at the agreed point. You receive the set of shipping and closing documents whose composition is fixed in the contract.
Directions
What the contract fixes
Obligations arise not from correspondence and not from a phone call, but from signed documents. Before money and goods move, the contract fixes:
Specification. The name, the quality standard or grade, and the parameters against which the lot is accepted.
Price and currency. The price on the agreed basis and its validity period. No re-pricing after the fact: within the period stated in the offer the price does not change.
Volume and schedule. A single lot or a shipment program with a calendar.
Incoterms delivery basis and destination. Who bears the costs and the risks, where, and up to what point.
Containers, packaging and marking. Including the requirements of the receiving party.
Payment terms. Prepayment, deferral, letter of credit — the settlement scheme, the timing and the contract currency. The settlement procedure is agreed with regard to currency control requirements and the rules of both parties' banks; we neither offer nor execute schemes that circumvent applicable restrictions.
Liability and the procedure for deviations. Who answers for quality and to what extent, and what happens to a lot that does not meet the specification.
The supply document set. Which documents are handed to the buyer and at what moment.
The set of annexes and specifications depends on the product and the direction. The draft contract is discussed before signing — neither side signs a “standard form” blind.
How to send a request
One request — one product and one direction: that way the quotation is calculated faster and more accurately.
If you are buying
- Product and specification: name, grade or quality standard, key parameters
- Volume and schedule: a single lot or a program with a calendar
- Destination and the Incoterms delivery basis you want
- Requirements for containers, packaging and marking
- Payment terms you are prepared to discuss
- Company details — we verify the counterparty before approaching producers
If you are selling
- Product, specification and supporting quality documents
- Available volume and shipment period
- Shipment basis and place of loading
- Containers and packaging in which the goods are shipped
- Payment terms and settlement currency
If something is not at hand, send it as is and we will clarify the rest.
What you receive
A quotation and a deadline. The price on the agreed basis, the specification and the period for which the price holds.
One agreement and one accountable party. Instead of coordinating five contractors — one agreement with a trading house; arrangement and control are on us, the capacity sits with specialized partners.
A direct answer if the deal does not come together. We do not collect price lists for a database: where there is a request, we move to contract; where there is none, we say so directly.
A deal starts with a single request
Buying — send the product, the volume and the destination: we will name the quotation deadline and the parameters that are missing. Selling — send your offer: if there is matching buyer demand we move to contract; if there is none, we will say so directly.
First reply usually within one business day.