Pharmacy Alliance China access

MORE than 650 Pharmacy Alliance pharmacies across Australia now have access to the Chinese market, through a new agreement with Australian Health Products Central (AHPC).

This week the supplier launched its flagship eStore on the Daigousales.com marketplace on Chinese social media pla orm WeChat, created specifically to give Australian businesses the ability to sell to consumers in China via buying agents - known as Daigou.

AHPC is an Australian owned and operated business based in Sydney, with Pharmacy Alliance members able to opt in to the company’s export program - thereby giving them the ability to par cipate in the burgeoning Chinese market.

Pharmacy Alliance execu ve chairman and co‐owner, Simon Reynolds, said the AHPC flagship eStore in the DaigouSales.com marketplace would be the only official online loca on for Daigou consumers to purchase products from the group and par cipa ng Pharmacy Alliance members.

“This will also provide an opportunity for AHPC suppliers to enter the China market via the fast growing Daigou-toConsumer (D2C) cross border trading channel.”

Reynolds said Australian products were increasingly being sought out by the growing middle class in China looking for high quality and trusted interna onal items.

“We, along with par cipa ng Pharmacy Alliance pharmacies, will now be expor ng to China and the process will be incredibly easy, so easy in fact that we can con nue focus on day to day opera ons, while DaigouSales.com does all the work for us,” he added.

DaigouSales.com ceo Mathew McDougall said the AHPC site would offer 30,000 pharmacy products, effec vely enabling consumers in mainland China to purchase products as if they were locals within Australia.