Instruction of services & facilities on
Sophia Virtual Bridal Trade & Business Center

Its' Market Revolution ! It's most Workable ! It's most Profitable ! It's most Effective !
Trading Center realizes to provide the idea to any Japanese Buyers of workable Overseas Factories.
Joint Stocking Center realizes to provides revolutionary & profitable opportunities to both of Overseas Factories and any Japanese Buyers. Even small Buyers can join to buy the dresses directly from Overseas Factories without any minimum quantity.
Exhibition Center realizes to provide effective opportunities to Japanese Buyers to get all of newest designs on time.

About Sophia Virtual Bridal Trade & Business Center;
1. This Web site is for Overseas Manufactures or Exporters(Exhibitors) of bridal products and any Buyers(visitors) in Japan.
2. Following are main facilities in the Web site and our support based on the Web site;
a: Trading Center
We set up virtual Showroom for each overseas Exhibitor who can introduce or provide the Products or Services to the visitors of the Web site.
b: Joint Stocking Center
The products of Exhibitors are described with detailed information and this system realize to gather the order from any visitors on the Web site. If the price of the Products are discounted according to the volume of total order, revised new price information is indicated accordingly. And it would encourage the visitors to place an order for more benefit.
c: Exhibition Center
The date and the term of opening of the Exhibition is scheduled periodically and most recent promotional Products or Services of the Exhibitors are introduced at virtual Exhibition.
d: Sophia News Mail
We deliver News Mail Letter to the visitors and inform any available news of Exhibitor's products and service.
e: Announcement and arrangement of the tour
We encourage the visitors to visit your office or factory and this tour is announced and arranged periodically by us.
f: Real Exhibition
We also open real Exhibition in Japan to introduce the products or services of the Exhibitors and both of approaches by virtual and real to the Exhibitors must be most effective promotion.
We offer following services;
1. Making the contents
The Exhibitors provide us of the text letter and the photo(printing photo by post mail or photo file by e mail) and we make all of the contents(translating your text into Japanese, adjusting the size, color or brightness of the photo etc...) of the pages in the Web site where the exhibitors join.
2. Advertisement
We advertise this Web site in Japan and any buyers can easily visit the Web site to find out business opportunities.
3. Inquiry from visitors
We direct any inquiries about products or information from domestic buyers and pass them on to the Exhibitors.
4. Communication
We support operations, production and communication for those companies visiting our Web site and for the Exhibitors and If there is any information or support to particular visitor from the Exhibitor, we also put it through the visitor in Japanese.
5. At Trading Center
We realize for the Exhibitors of the opportunities to advertise their products or services at Web site into any Japanese buyers.
At Joint Stocking Center
The Exhibitors could get precious opportunities to expand export business through our unique approaches to any buyers at this system which even small buyers can join in placing the order regardless of order size as we gather the order from any buyers on the Web site to be matched with your minimum quantity.
At Exhibition Center
The buyers could visit the Exhibition without any extra time and expense. We offer the Exhibitors to describe newest Products or Services at Virtual Exhibition for most first and effective promotion.
6. Sophia News Mail
The Exhibitors anytime provide us of the information for active sales or for more promotion and we issue it by Sophia News Mail sent to any our customers.
7. Tour to visit Exhibitor's Office or Factory
For expanding the opportunities of the tour, the announcement on the Web site and by Sophia News Mail is most effective notice and one of our target is to increase the customers to visit Exhibitors.
8. Real Exhibition
Real Exhibition is also one of most important promotion and it could avoid any hesitation from the visitors of getting the products or services directly from overseas Exhibitors. And when stocking the products from overseas Exhibitors is to be common sense for any visitors, real Exhibition in Japan will be most useful and available opportunity for both of the Exhibitors and visitors.
What requirements are needed to participate;
Plan A; Participation in the Showroom in the Virtual Trading Center
One year subscription of One Page 100,000 Japanese Yen
When you send us photos, description of the products and required information, we will;
· translate the text into Japanese and process the photo to be suitable condition(adjusting the size, color or brightness etc...)
· arrange for you to be part of the showroom
· accept to attach maximum 4(four) photos on the first one page of the Showroom(as up to 4 photos is most suitable for opening the page without any delay)

*The photo is not changed for another one year and if necessary to change it, following extra fee is required.
*Each Showroom has blank format for any requirement from the buyers and it comes up to our office to be translated to each Exhibitor.
Optional Services
1. Change of the photo with description 5,000 Japanese Yen/one photo
2. Additional page(Maximum 5 photos/one page) 20,000 Japanese Yen/one page
*Additional pages are linked from first page of the Showroom and general information about the Exhibitor is published only in first Showroom page.

Plan B; Participation in the Joint Stocking Center
Subscription of Joint Stocking Center Free of Charge
Only Manufactures or Exporters who participate in opening of the Showroom in the Virtual Trading Center can join this performance and send us of sellable products photo and description including the photo of detailed parts of the product.
· The term of publication of the photo with description is determined according to the progress of the order.
· All of the order is gathered by us and put them through to the Exhibitors.
· The Exhibitors any time can provide us of the photo with description and we put them on the page accordingly.
· No limitation of the number of the photo for applying, but photos which exactly and clearly provide detailed information of any parts of the product and their description must be required.(See sample page)

Plan C; Participation in the Virtual Exhibition Center
Subscription of Exhibition Center 30,000 Japanese Yen
When we inform the schedule of next opening of the Virtual Exhibition, you send us most recent promotional products description and photo.
· The Exhibition is not permanent and opened for 3 weeks per Exhibition. and above cost is required every opening of the Exhibition.
· The date and the term of the Exhibition is determined in consideration of schedule of Exhibitor's production.
· We arrange for you to be part of the Exhibition and send us of your most recent promotional products photo and description.
· 10(ten) photos are maximum for above initial cost and 2 or 3 pages are arranged for your promotion in Exhibition Center.

*Any requirement from the visitors are also translated to the Exhibitors from us.
Optional Services
1. Publication of additional 5(five) photos of the products with each description. 5,000 Japanese Yen/5 photos

We hereby provide above facilities, services in the Web site and realize future valuable opportunities. 2002 year is 10th year anniversary year for us since we established Wedding Business in Japan and our marketing relation of current wholesale business will definitely promote "Sophia Virtual Bridal Trade & Business Center" and most effective Internet system must be most attractive market for Japan market based on current rapid diffusion of use of Internet in Japan.
by Yoshiyuki Kohara, President, Sophia Trading Co., Ltd.


Sophia Trading Co., Ltd.
Kotobuki Bld.5F, 1-1-3 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0028 Japan
Tel:81-3-6202-1555 Fax:81-3-5202-5810
mail:mail@sophia-group.co.jp


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