What are realistic minimum quantities?
It depends entirely on the product and how much is being changed. Putting your logo and packaging on an existing product often starts low. Changing the mould, the formulation or the materials pushes the minimum up sharply, because the factory has to justify a tooling change. We give you real numbers per factory rather than one figure for everything.
Who owns the tooling and the design?
This should be settled in writing before anything is cut, and it frequently is not. Where you pay for a mould, the contract should say you own it and that it will be released to you. Where a design is yours, the factory should be barred from selling it to others. These clauses are ordinary and factories accept them — but only if someone asks.
How do you keep batch two the same as batch one?
By fixing an approved reference sample and a written specification, and by checking every later batch against those rather than against memory. Drift between runs is rarely deliberate: the supplier of a raw material changes, a shift changes, a technician leaves. What catches it is comparison against a fixed reference.
Does putting our brand on it change our legal position in the EU?
Yes, significantly, and it is worth understanding before rather than after. Selling a product under your own name generally puts you in the position of the manufacturer for EU purposes, with the obligations that come with it — conformity, technical documentation, and being the operator answerable for the product. This is a good reason to agree early who holds the responsible person role.
