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Samarkand Vision:
To make Chinese eCommerce as easy as selling on your own .com
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About
Samarkand Group is named after the Uzbekistan city, a major trading postmid-way along the ancient silk road connecting the trade routes between China and Europe.
The co-founders, David Hampstead and Simon Smiley, have spent 12 years together in technology entrepreneurship. They founded Samarkand Group in 2016 in London to create a digital Silk Road that connects international brands with China, the world’s largest eCommerce market.
Nomad, our proprietary technology platform, integrates across all touch points required for eCommerce in China. Its end-to-end solutions across technology, operations, and analytics enables the direct-to-consumer experience of the future for brands and retailers of all sizes.
To learn more about Samarkand’s products and services, please visit our Solutions page.
Latest News
Samarkand Group plc, the cross-border eCommerce technology, services and consumer brand group, is delighted to announce that it has been selected as one of 226 organisations nationally, to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in acknowledgement of its outstanding contribution to International Trade.
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Client and partner testimonials
“Our relationship with Samarkand has been critical to a successful brand launch into China. From the outset, we found the whole team to be transparent with information, flexible in approach, and extremely knowledgeable - and this has not waivered with time. I would consider Samarkand to be trustworthy advisors and an extremely collaborative partner – not to mention they are friendly, dynamic, ambitious and fun to be around.”
Clare McMullen (VP of Global Strategic Sales)Temple Spa
“Unlike other proposals we received Samarkand provided us with a clear and detailed understanding of how they would market our products in the Chinese CBEC market. Over the past 3 years we have found them to be collaborative and transparent in their work for our brand.”
Brian Astley (Director)Zita West Products
“Working with Samarkand has allowed us to expand our market and reach a new audience. Their flexibility and support has been invaluable, their team are always on hand to provide assistance, explanations and expertise. It also goes beyond selling and logistics with the additional marketing support proving to make the biggest difference.”
Ruby Sandhu (Senior Executive)Tateossian
“Samarkand Global have worked closely with Alibaba Cloud to deliver cutting edge eCommerce solutions on China's biggest cloud provider”
Xuan Jin, Head of UKIAlibaba Cloud International
“Samarkand Global are a valued, long-standing, and highly engaged member of the China-Britain Business Council and regularly provides advice and cutting edge insights to our network. We truly appreciate you speaking at and sponsoring some of our events. We look forward to continuing to work with you this year and beyond.”
Adriaan Commandeur, Executive DirectorChina Britain Business Council
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