Why us

Structured for two-sided communication.

Baltiqo is a two-founder partnership, structured around the two sides of every order: the factory in China, and the buyer in Europe. Below is how that structure actually works, not a founder story.

Structure

Four facts, not a pitch.

Supplier-side operations

Native Mandarin fluency

Direct communication with factory owners and production managers, in their own language. No translated email chain in between.

Buyer-side operations

Native Latvian & English

Communication with European buyers in the language and business norms they brief and negotiate in.

Advisory

30+ years in European distribution

Sourcing decisions are informed by an advisor with three decades of experience running distribution in Europe.

Operational base

Riga, sourcing from Guangdong & the Yangtze River Delta

Based in Riga, Latvia, sourcing from China's two largest manufacturing regions, serving buyers across the Baltics and wider Europe.

Why the split matters

Most sourcing problems start as a translation problem.

A spec that means one thing in the brief and another on the production floor. A "yes" that meant "probably." Putting a native speaker on each side of that gap is a structural fix, not a courtesy.

Two founders. Two native languages. One relationship — yours — once the introduction is made.

Why work with us

Baltiqo vs. a typical sourcing agent.

No invented statistics here — just what's actually different about how we work, row by row.

How we compare

Baltiqo

Typical agents

Direct introduction, not a permanent middlemanOnce verified, you deal with the factory yourself — no fee on every reorder after that.

Native language on both sidesMandarin with the supplier, Latvian and English with you — no translation gap on either end.

Verified before you commitLegal entity, factory location, export history, certificates, capacity, and sample — all checked first.

You're told what's your responsibilityPlainly, before you brief us — not buried in a contract after the fact.

Honest lead times6–13 weeks stated upfront — not oversold to close the deal, then quietly delayed.

A quote, not a guessYour fee confirmed for your specific order before any work starts — nothing published, nothing padded.

Six categories, chosen deliberatelyWe don't claim to source everything — only what we've actually built supplier relationships in.

"Typical agents" describes common industry patterns we've seen and researched, not any single named competitor.

Work with us

Tell us what you're trying to source.

Brief us See what we source