Sourcing Made Easy
Trade show representation
BuyHive matches you with a vetted procurement professional in the show's own city. They work the halls for you — shortlisting booths, benchmarking prices and MOQs, checking compliance, collecting samples and opening the negotiation in the local language — and you get the written report within 48 hours of the show closing.
The real cost of attending
A five-day show in Guangzhou is not a $1,150 flight. It is flights, hotel, meals and hospitality, a visa, transfers, a hired interpreter — and a week of your own working time at your own day rate. Set the figures to your own; the comparison updates as you type.
Everything starts from the show you have in mind.
Used only for the time you would otherwise spend travelling and on the floor. Set it to 0 to ignore your own time.
Indicative planning baselines for 2026–27, in USD. Change the show, the origin or the day count and every figure recalculates. Nothing on this page is a quote — the quote comes back with your matched expert, fixed, within 24 hours.
Your saving on this show
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How it works
Matching happens behind the scenes. You see one thing: a shortlist of experts with a fixed price and a delivery date, and you approve it before anything starts.
The show and its dates, the product categories, how many experts you need, target prices, volumes and certifications. Ten minutes on the form below.
Day 0 · freeWe shortlist on category depth, the show's own market and language, then come back with one to three profiles, a fixed fee and a delivery date.
Within 24 hoursBooth by booth: photographs, price and MOQ benchmarks, supplier cards, certification checks, samples collected, and a live call from the floor if you want one.
Show daysA shortlist you can act on, benchmarks in Excel, samples already couriered to you, and a call to decide what to sample, negotiate or drop.
48 hours after closeWhat you receive
Not a folder of business cards. A decision-ready shortlist, with the numbers behind it, delivered within 48 hours of the show closing.
Every supplier worth a second look, with hall and booth number, the contact's name and title, and what they actually make.
Factory or trading company, years in business, export markets, main customers, and the certifications they can show you.
Quoted unit price, MOQ, tooling cost and lead time per product per supplier, side by side in Excel.
What the products look like on the stand, in your colours if you asked, plus short video of the lines that matter most.
Samples requested on the floor, consolidated, and couriered to your address with the tracking reference in the report.
Opening quotes, what moved when volume or terms were raised, what held firm, and the next three asks worth making.
Show calendar
Confirmed dates are read from the organiser's own show pages. Expected dates follow the published pattern of the show and are re-checked before we quote. If your show is not here, add it to the brief.
Reading the badges. “Confirmed” means the organiser publishes those dates. “Expected” means the show runs on that pattern but the next edition's dates were not yet published when this page was built (October 2026) — we re-check every date when we confirm your brief. Fashion, apparel, electronics, home and industrial shows in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, Germany, the USA and Brazil are all covered by the network.
The network
Live profiles from the BuyHive network — real people, real category depth, on the ground in the market where the show is held. These twelve are a sample: matching is done behind the scenes against your brief, and you approve the profile before anything starts.
On the numbers. The portal holds 3,000+ sourcing professionals; 595 profiles are publishable today and 116 are quarantined for a source-data fix on their category fields — so a directory of this size shows a sample, not the whole bench. Percentages shown are the network's positive-engagement score; review counts are being restored before any review markup is published, in line with the site's structured-data policy.
Three ways to cover a show
The middle column is what most buyers try first. It is cheaper than flying, but the relationship, the margin and the follow-up usually stay with the agent.
| What matters | You attend | A local buying agent | BuyHive show expert |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of one show week | $8,000–12,000 all-in, plus your time | $1,500–3,000, usually commission-led | From $249 per expert-day, fixed before work starts |
| Language on the floor | Interpreter hired at the door | Agent's own, rarely your category's vocabulary | Expert's own, in your category's vocabulary |
| Category depth | Whatever you can learn in a week | Generalist across many categories | 13 years' average in procurement, matched to your category |
| Halls and booths covered | One or two halls a day at best | Varies by who is free that week | A coverage plan agreed with you before the show |
| Who owns the supplier relationship | You | The agent, usually | You — the report is addressed to you |
| Samples and follow-up | What you can carry home | Unclear, often billed separately | Collected, consolidated, couriered, tracked |
| Your own time | 5–8 working days gone | 2–4 days of briefing and chasing | About 4 hours: brief, approve, read |
| Vetting | n/a | References you cannot check | Five-gate vetting, tracked engagements |
Pricing
Launch pricing for 2026–27. The expert lives in the market, so there are no flights, hotel, per diems or visa to pay for — and the fee is fixed before any work starts.
Minimum one day. Best when you have a short, specific list.
Save 12% against the day rate. Canton Fair, Global Sources, CES, IFA and Ambiente are all multi-day.
Priced on the coverage plan. Tell us the categories and the halls; we will tell you honestly how many experts it takes.
Send a show brief
Three short steps. The more precise the product lines and target prices, the sharper the shortlist that comes back — and the better the negotiation on the floor.
Your reference is below. We will come back within 24 hours with one to three matched experts, a fixed fee and a delivery date — or with an honest answer if we cannot cover that show properly.
—Questions buyers ask
Next show
Send the brief today and you will have a matched expert, a fixed price and a coverage plan before the show opens.