T&S Brass turned German market research into a distributor agreement
International business story | A 2024 agreement followed a market matrix, distributor research and specialist conversations; no shipment value was disclosed.
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This is a German distributor agreement reached in May 2024, not a new export order. The ITA case record was created on 25 September 2024. It documents T&S Brass signing a catering-supplies distributor, rather than reporting completed shipments.
Based in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, T&S Brass makes faucets, fittings and accessories and has exported for decades. Its relationship with Commercial Service Greenville included Trade Winds missions and Gold Key services in several countries.
RAISE projects supplied a market-selection matrix, potential distributor contacts, foodservice and commercial-construction research, and conversations with industry specialists based in the countries studied. Those specialists worked with the Rural Export Center.
In May 2024, global sales vice-president Ken Gallagher announced an agreement with a catering-supplies distributor listed in the German report. He credited the research with helping identify and select the partner.
Gallagher expressed enthusiasm about supplying faucets and handwashing basins. That was a forward-looking supply statement, not evidence of an invoiced sales total, shipment quantity or end-customer count. The case gives neither the distributor’s name nor commercial terms.
Commercial Service teams in Greenville and Düsseldorf and the Rural Export Center coordinated calls, national inputs and the final report. T&S Brass continued working with Greenville on expansion. The signed distribution relationship is the documented result; future sales remain separate.
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