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How to find verified suppliers in any country.
Finding real producers in a new market is slow and noisy: directories list whoever paid, databases cost thousands, and Google buries the real companies under listicles. Here's how to do it properly — and faster.
The four ways people find suppliers (and where each falls short)
Directories (ThomasNet, Europages, Kompass) list self-registered companies and rank by who paid — stale and biased. Marketplaces (Alibaba) mix real makers with traders. Contact databases (ZoomInfo, Apollo) are built for US sales contacts, not international producers, and cost thousands a year. Manual Google research works but takes days per market.
A faster method: read the live web and score it
Fiorentis runs your sector-and-country search in English and the local language, opens each company's own website, keeps only real producers, and scores the fit with the evidence — then exports the contacts. Run a free search to try it, or read exactly how the scoring works. Not sure Fiorentis beats your current tool? See the comparisons.
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