Summary
- Profile Type
- Business request
- POD Reference
- BRIE20250711011
- Term of Validity
- 11 July 2025 - 11 July 2026
- Company's Country
- Ireland
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The Irish SME seeks to celebrate Irish sport through fun, inclusive, and educational children’s products. Currently with 27 jigsaw puzzles in their collection, they are seeking to identify a new commercial partnership with a manufacturer of high quality, sustainable, jigsaw puzzles, and potentially other games like memory match and playing cards.
- Full Description
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The Irish SME was founded with a clear purpose: to celebrate Irish sport through fun, inclusive, and educational children’s products. It began with a simple but striking realisation — despite the deep love for Irish sports, there were very few toys or games available that reflected Irish sporting culture, especially those that appealed to both boys and girls. The SME saw this gap as an opportunity to create something original and meaningful and fun.
The SME started with one jigsaw puzzle and from there have grown to 27 and are now in the process of expanding into a full suite of products including memory games, playing cards, colouring books and more.
The business has grown rapidly in a short period of time, helped by strong word-of-mouth, media features, and enthusiastic customer feedback. One of their key differentiators is the emotional connection people have with their brand — particularly parents, grandparents, and Irish communities abroad who want their children to connect with Irish heritage in a modern, playful way.
They seek to identify a commercial agreement with a manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles, with the following criteria met:
1. Identification of a manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles that can produce to a high quality with lower minimum order quantities of 100 per design. The Irish SME have almost 30 designs currently and this is growing. They will require different quantities per design as some sell quicker than others with 100 for the slowest selling SKUs.
2. The SME wishes to identify a European based manufacturer with scope to supply other games like memory match and playing cards. - Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
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They seek to identify a commercial agreement with an EU based manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles, with the following criteria met:
1. Identification of a new manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles that can produce to a high quality but at with lower minimum order quantities. Minimum order quantity of 100 per design. The company have almost 30 designs currently and this is growing. They will require different quantities per design as some sell quicker than others with 100 for the slowest selling SKUs.
2. The SME wishes to identify a European based manufacturer with scope to supply other games like memory match and playing cards. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 5: Gender Equality
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The Irish SME wishes to identify a partner:
1. Based anywhere in the EU
2. A partner of any size, as long as there is a priority on customer service, quality product and efficient processes.
3. A partner who can receive minimum order quantities of 100 per design. The Irish SME have almost 30 designs currently and this is growing. They will require different quantities per design as some sell quicker than others with 100 for the slowest selling SKUs.
4. Effective communication, efficient response times, with capacity to arrange speedy shipping to Ireland. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME <=10
- Other
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Market keywords
- 09004008 - Other manufacturing (not elsewhere classified)
- 07001003 - Toys and electronic games
- Sector Groups Involved
- Retail
- Targeted countries
- All countries
