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About Us

Samarkand Vision:

To make Chinese eCommerce as easy as selling on your own .com

Proprietary
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About us

Founded in 2016 in London, Samarkand is a cross-border eCommerce company focused on connecting Western brands with China, the world’s largest eCommerce market. In the last 5 years, the Chinese eCommerce market has evolved at breakneck speed, yet our mission remains as relevant as ever – to make Chinese eCommerce simple, accessible, and profitable for brands and retailers of all sizes. Our proprietary software platform, Nomad, covers commerce, distribution, logistics, payments, and analytics.

SIMPLE

Access the world’s largest eCommerce market through a single partner. Samarkand manage payments, logistics and operations for your brand, with settlements made in your preferred currency.

ACCESSIBLE

Nomad Analytics shows you the data on where your brand is selling and who is buying it. The Samarkand Brand Management team in Europe provide the context and strategy behind the data.

PROFITABLE

Samarkand has a range of solutions to fit your brand. Including high margin direct to consumer stores, low investment eCommerce distribution and selling from your own .com.

Latest News

Samarkand Group announces intention to float on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market

Samarkand Group Limited announces its intention to apply for admission of its Ordinary Shares to trading on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market.

Samarkand Brand Partners

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Samarkand Global have worked closely with Alibaba Cloud to deliver cutting edge eCommerce solutions on China's biggest cloud provider”

“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.”