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CREATIVE INVEST: CREATING OPPORTUNITY
Creative Invest is involved in helping innovative startups and existing small business's reach their full potential.
Our investment in your business is more than just financial. When we commit to working with you, we become partners, lending our full support in terms of infrastructure and years of experience behind you to move your company forward. Contact us to learn more about what we have to offer.
COMPANY ETHOS
Creative Invest was formed to allow small or start-up companies direct access to our extensive range of skills and resources. It has been proven that a business can flourish when given the benefit of our domestic and international relationships, infrastructure and financial strength.
Powerful Collaborations
OUR COMPANIES
CREATIVE DISTRIBUTION LTD
Our core business is trading Video Games, consoles and peripherals. We have been buying and selling computer Video Games from all over the world for over 15 years.
We sell B2B so our sales are into retail outlets and other international wholesalers. This business model has enabled CD to achieve sales in excess of £72M per annum.
Due to the companies infrastructure and extensive customer base we extended the product range to include toys and clothing.
CREATIVE TOYS COMPANY - SOCCERSTARZ
We have a range of our own branded products called Soccerstarz. We sculpt them in the UK, have them manufactured overseas and distribute them from our Croydon warehouse. We have had licensed 31 club sides including 14 Premier League Teams. There are also 9 National Teams. Again these products are sold all over the world including countries like Japan and Brazil. We have run campaigns in the past with companies such as Carrefour in Belguim and Panini in Italy.
REEF ENTERAINMENT
Reef Entertainment Ltd is a computer games publisher owned by Creative Distribution. Reef operates from our Croydon office.
Reef has published other companies games in the past and produced its own titles too (both in digital and physical format) Reef has ‘in house’ story writers, designers, marketer’s and support services.
Reef also hosts online stores and handles the merchandising and distribution for other companies too. In the past development has been outsourced but this will shortly be brought in house too.
WHAT WE OFFER
We are actively seeking out new lines of product to market and distribute. If you have a business idea, knowledge within an industry, want to start / run your own department or currently work for a company that you think you could run better, then talk to us.
We are interested in both start-up ideas plus ongoing projects that need investment/acceleration.
The team of Creative Distribution Ltd has a multitude of business knowledge/skills all centralised within one Croydon hub, just waiting to start or drive the next business on.
Sales Team
CD has a sales team of over 15 people based in 5 different countries. The sales team speak 12 different languages between them. We have offices in the UK, Hong Kong, Scandinavia and India.
Customer Base
The extensive sales team sell into over 300 active customers. Including the likes of Amazon (in several counties) Tesco, Argos and Toys R U. We have customers in nearly every country you can think of ranging from America to the Reunion islands.
Supplier Base
We buy/source goods and materials from all over the world. We have experience of using many different manufacturers in the Far East and have all the business tools to make buying goods very simple.
Distribution facilities
We have warehousing and distribution facilities in excess of 43,000 Sq ft. We ship and receive goods from all over the world and hold accounts with all the major freight forwarders, including DHL/TNT/FEDEX. Because of the volumes we put through the forwarders we benefit from some very competitive shipping rates.
Company Standing
Because Creative Distribution has been in business for over 13 years and has a balance sheet of over £14M it can open many doors that a start up/new companies might find impossible, or take years to achieve. These include raising funds, obtaining credit lines, selling to certain chains and general cash flow issues.
Management expertise/advice
All the management and expertise are located in the Croydon office. We all work in an open plan office with every skillset readily available for the benefit of the whole.
Marketing, advertising and web design/ maintenance.
We have an experienced team dedicated to digital and traditional forms of marketing and advertising, whether its placing an sponsored add on google all the way up to placing television advertising in a primetime slot. We also run web shops for other companies so this is a day to day task for the team
