An importer first

I’m Max (Mukesh Chouhan). I import by the container for my own business: building materials, kitchen hardware, clothing, barber shop furniture, restaurant and hospitality supplies, baby products, interior decoration products, beauty products and direct-to-fabric printers. I find the factories, work out the freight, do the customs import entries and get the stock to the door myself.

Start with Max puts that experience to work for you: one person to take your business from registration to first sale.

Max with a steel structure manufacturer beside their soundproof office pods at the Canton Fair, Guangzhou

Canton Fair trips

I go to the Canton Fair in Guangzhou to meet factories face to face. I attended the 139th Canton Fair in April 2026 and I’m going to the 140th in October 2026. Alongside those contacts, I source through Alibaba and 1688.com.

Heading to the fair soon? Send me your product list before I fly.

Max with an LED neon strip lighting supplier at his showroom in China
Shelves of nail gel colour charts and UV nail lamps at a beauty supplies wholesaler in China

Based in Auckland, working across NZ and the Pacific

I work with new business owners, shops and trades after factory-direct margins, and buyers in Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Australia. Whether you need one step or all five, you deal with me the whole way.

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