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Tiered pricing structure – Shopfronts (Type A Customer)
Dear Valued Customer, We would like to advise you of changes to our trading terms; over the past 3 years we’ve been working with top breeders to supply you with quality fish, quality products and importantly competitive prices in line...
Tiered Pricing Structure - Online Retailers and Alike (Type B Customers)
Dear Valued Customer, We would like to advise you of changes to our trading terms; over the past 3 years we’ve been working with top breeders to supply you with quality fish, quality products and importantly competitive prices in line...
Leaders, Innovators and Entrepreneurs of our Aquarium Industry
After hearing of the recent passing of a legend of this industry, Dr Herbert Axelrod I started to think about where this hobby is headed and was saddened by the lack of new blood entering and driving this industry with the...
Julian's Travels - Part 2 Taiwan 2017
After completing the first leg of my aquarium tour to Hong Kong and Guangzhou I then ventured to Taiwan where they are becoming world renowned for their ornamental shrimp breeding and have surpassed Japan in this field. Currently Taiwan supplies...
Julian's Travels - Part 1 Overseas for Aquarama
In order to keep up to date with international trends and new products and ideas entering the market I usually try to attend Aquarama and other trade shows whenever I can. This includes visits to public aquariums and aquarium stores...
Supporting your Local Fish Store (LFS)
As we all can appreciate and acknowledge this industry has had a downturn in recent years and the local fish store (LFS) has worn the brunt of this. Just as the local corner store has disappeared so too has many...
The Pricing of Fish - Producers, Wholesalers and Retailers
Protecting the wholesale price of fish is critical to the long term survival of this industry. I have recently heard of disturbing news of the public having access to certain prominent wholesalers’ pricelists and showing this pricing to their local...
The Current State of the Industry- A Wholesaler’s Perspective - Part 1
In recent times there has been a lot of commotion amongst the shop retailers and rightly so. This industry is highly competitive and everyone is out there trying to get ahead often at any expense. This is clearly voiced in...
The Current State of the Industry- Ideas and Solutions Moving Forward - Part 2
Moving forward what can we as an industry do to overcome these systemic industry problems and get the growth and interest back to where we all want it to be? As a wholesale business, Aquatic Solutions supports independent aquarium...