Happy Easter Weekend. Wishing you lots of brisk friendly business, chocolates and hopefully some quality time with your friends and family. 

Here in China Easter hardly registers as an event, and we are working every day, weekends included, to find the next best big thing for your store.

Last week I was telling you about the "A" team in action.. and the issue we have with moving the warehouse.. if you missed it you can catch up here.

This week has just flown by, each morning Coco and I collect Tomas from his hotel and head off to see suppliers in one area or another of the vast Yiwu market. We do a bit of walking around to see what we might happen upon, but to walk all the Yiwu permanent market would take weeks, there are 90,000 showrooms! But we head to see old friends and along the way find some new ideas.

Coco with our agent and the new landlord, doing the deal.

I was telling you we needed to find a new warehouse and home for our candle factory as our old landlord had gone bust. That's normally a time-consuming job, right? But not here in China, Coco decided on a new warehouse on the fifth floor of a warehouse block not far from our old warehouse on Monday. On Tuesday the agent took us back for a second look, and with some access issues ironed out, we decided to go ahead.  No messing, straight to the boss man's office, he had a standard contract already stamped with red marks and just filled in the blanks. The agent oversaw the deal, and Coco and the Boss signed the paper, money was sent via WeChat, and agent fees were paid on the spot. We have official access from 1st April but can send in the workmen the next day to build an office, move the factory and fit toilets. Breathtakingly quickly, not a lawyer or notary in sight. Over 1000 square meters, access to two big lifts down to a loading bay big enough for 40ft containers. It's enough room for the factory, and space for three containers worth of stock at any one time plus a nice corner office with a view for Coco. We have a three-year lease with optio
ns to extend. 

Here are a few from this week...

So that's the update from China for this week.

Hope your long weekend is restful enough.. and more updates next week.