Founder · Buyer relationships
George William Wayne Mumford
Takes the brief, holds the account, and is the person you call when something is wrong. Owns the quote from the first drawing to the signed invoice.
About Vertex
Small enough that you know who is handling your order.
Vertex sits between Chinese manufacturing and businesses that buy in volume. We are three people, not a platform with a support queue, and each of us owns a part of the job end to end.
Who you deal with
Three people, named, each owning a part of it.
Co-founder · Supplier relationships
Feng Chen
Finds and audits the factories, negotiates prices and books the inspections. Based in China, so the person checking your samples is the one who chose the plant.
Co-founder · Technology
Bjorn Falken Schreiner
Builds and runs this platform — the catalogue, the quoting engine and the freight maths behind every figure on it.
A bigger agency would give you an account manager and a ticket system. We think the named-person model is the reason to use us, so we are not in a hurry to grow out of it.
How we work
Five things we will not trade away.
We quote the number you pay
Not the ex-factory price with the awkward parts left off. Tooling, samples, inspection, freight and duty are all named before you commit.
We only list what we would stand behind
A shortlist is worth something; a directory is not. If we have not run production with a factory, it is not in the catalogue.
One contract, one invoice, one person
You buy from Vertex, not from a factory you have never met. When a run goes wrong there is no argument about whose problem it is.
We say no
If the volume does not suit the factory, or the target price is not real, we tell you at the brief rather than three weeks into sampling.
Your designs stay private, NDA on request
Your drawings, artwork and order details are confidential under our terms of trade (clause 8), for five years after the contract ends. Want a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before you share a design? Ask us, and we sign it first.
Where we are
Based in Asia, close to the factories.
Vertex is a company being registered in England and Wales. Our whole team works from Asia, close to the factories we use, so the person briefing a plant is in the same time zone as the plant. A priced quote follows within 1–3 working days.
- Registered in
- England and WalesRegistration in progress
- Where the team works
- Asia, close to the factories
- Sourcing presence
- Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangsu