Just watched this last thread with Phil pointing out a workout technique that he had learned. He then as a reward for sharing info with us went on to be questioned in depth and punished (under the guise of good discussion)for what was later proved to be indisputable fact.
Your telling these guys "how to become a millionnaire" and NOT ONE WONDERING THOMAS? I know from reading the forum all the time the tremendous value you bring to the community here. I'm certainly not questioning your intent to help spread news about what you believe is a great opportunity. I was just pointing out an observation.
That being said, I own a concrete company in the northeast. I have seen alot of companys come and go. The market only supports X amount of yards of concrete to be sold. The amount of people in my business doesn't change that much and in time returns to the mean. Could there be a reason that there is only two providers of these plastic jugs rather than an opportunity of epic proportions? Just wondering. I have no knowledge of this industry.
Don't jump on me guys. I like/respect this guy as much as anyone.
Just a little bit of background from what I have personally seen with large manufacturing plants. I worked in the plastics and rubber (mostly plastics) business for over 9 years. The company I worked for built highly customized machinery for the plastics industry and I have seen my share of the cost per pcs. being so marginal many products don't have a chance as a "stand alone"
To explain myself the PET and HDPE are both commodity products.
Now I don't know who currently makes the jugs but I am guessing they have their hands in more than just supplement containers.
What I'm getting at is the cost of the raw materials is greatly reduced with a larger volume of such raw materials.
To start a business to mfg just jugs would likely not be prudent.
Like DC mentioned in the first post - you will likely need someone on the inside of a blow molding mfg. plant to produce these for you.
If you do - the first thing is to do the research and find out the total amount of product you could move and at what cost is to the end user.
Then it would simply be you as the middle man.
Customer to the plastics/blow mold company and supplier to the supplement companies.
Definite potential as DC said.
A couple things to be cautious of is being a very small customer to a very large plastics manufacturer and having the $$ to get the ball rolling.
Most customers looking to get a new product made in the business have to pony up the "tooling" cost for the new product, this is the breaking point for many as some people run out of cash before the product is deemed acceptable until the tooling is perfected. The plastic jug should be pretty straight forward and given the rapport with the blow molder and you sales skills you may even get them to foot the bill on the tooling.
That is highly unlikely as a first time customer.
Either way, if you have a potential connection with a company in that line of work heed DC's advice and see what can be done.
If I missed anything I apologize in advance,
Sal
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