Online Distribution Compliance

Compliance management is part of the organizational and monitoring obligations of any company of any size, being a local SME, an EU-wide or a global player. Deficient compliance management leads to the personal liability of those responsible.

Brand value is a key factor of market success and hence the company value. Key value drivers such as brand image, brand reputation and a trustable online appearance of the respective brand are increasingly gaining importance.

Not only do we assist you in fulfilling your standard compliance obligation. Beyond this we developed a unique online distribution compliance solution, which particularly serves all your e-commerce related business units.

By changing the perspective on/of our data, we generate useful information which serve your various market monitoring purposes. 

With our customized online distribution compliance service you will be able to identify and control

  • disloyal distribution partners,

  • disloyal license partners,

  • unauthorised online-supply-chains,

  • parallel imports / gray market sales and 

  • brand dilution in other industries.

You may gain information through your enforced disclosure rights on

  • identity of unauthorized sellers and suppliers, 

  • suspicious production and storage facilities (networks),

  • brand abuse within your own dealer network,

  • brand abuse within your own partner network and

  • miscellaneous market/seller information such as sales volume.

This will continuously lead to 

  • strengthening of the exclusive rights of authorized partners,

  • strengthening of official license partners,

  • rise of attractivity for new license partnerships and portfolio add-ons,

  • regaining of control over online sales channels,

  • protection from “black sheep“ in own network,

  • increase of market demand for original products,

  • less price pressure on original products,

  • control over online-sales-channels and -networks,

  • increased success in online campaigns, thereby

  • protection of the “core business“,

  • less SEM/SEO abuse,

  • less re-directed customer traffic and

  • RoI-potential through regained traffic on own resp. authorized webshops (less “stolen data traffic“)