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Prepared for Winter Sun // September 2026

Winter Sun in North America. A sales unit, built for you, then handed over.

You have built stores for New Balance, ASICS, ECCO and Gentle Monster across Asia. North American retail teams have not heard of you yet. We fix that in four months, then you own the machine.

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What we read // your company profile

The product is proven. The next region is not.

Winter Sun designs, manufactures and installs retail store fixtures and environments under one roof: design, prototyping, metal, wood, lacquer, packaging, global delivery and store maintenance.

1993
Founded in Shanghai. Over 30 years building stores for international brands.
33,000
Factory and R&D center in Haimen, Jiangsu, 70 km from Shanghai.
13
Markets served, from China and Hong Kong to Dubai, Canada and the United States.
ISO9001
Certified quality system for display fixture manufacturing.

Brands you already build for: New Balance, ASICS, Onitsuka Tiger, Mizuno, ECCO, Clarks, Keds, Gentle Monster, Jimmy Choo, Coccinelle, Mandarina Duck, Esprit, HEYTEA, Seesaw, 52TOYS, LEGO. Many of them run hundreds of stores across the United States and Canada. The buyers who sign off those stores do not know Winter Sun yet.

The gap

A new region runs on relationships. Four things get in the way.

A retail brand's store development team does not source a fixture partner from a marketplace listing. For a multi-store rollout they need a named contact, a factory they trust and a conversation that starts before the next opening.

Blocker 01

LinkedIn and Gmail are hard to run from China

The channels North American buyers live on are the ones a Chinese company cannot operate reliably from home.

Blocker 02

Every reply needs a fluent English follow-up

A good first reply goes cold when the answer takes days, or arrives in the wrong tone for a US buyer.

Blocker 03

Time zones and trade-show timing

Toronto and New York are 12 to 13 hours behind Shanghai. Meetings around a trade show get booked weeks ahead, by people who are awake when the buyer is.

Blocker 04

No one on the ground yet

Without a person in the region who owns the pipeline, the new market stays a project instead of becoming a sales unit.

Who we reach // your North American buyer map

Four buyer groups, starting with the brands you already build for.

SEGMENT 01

Footwear and sportswear brands, North American retail teams

The US and Canadian store development, visual merchandising and retail construction teams at the brands you already serve in Asia, and their direct peers. The easiest conversation to open: the factory is already approved somewhere in their company.

Who we contact: VP or Director of Store Development, Head of Visual Merchandising, Retail Construction Manager, fixture sourcing and procurement leads.
SEGMENT 02

Fashion, eyewear and lifestyle brands opening or refitting stores

Premium and contemporary brands rolling out or refreshing stores across US malls, flagship streets and Canadian cities. Gentle Monster, Jimmy Choo and Coccinelle are your existing references in this world.

Who we contact: Director of Store Design, Head of Retail Development, Store Planning and Rollout leads.
SEGMENT 03

Specialty coffee, tea and lifestyle retail chains

Multi-site coffee and tea concepts, toy and collectibles retailers, and fast-growing lifestyle chains that open stores on a program. Your HEYTEA, Seesaw, 52TOYS and LEGO work is the proof here.

Who we contact: Head of Store Development, Director of Construction, Franchise Development leads, Procurement.
SEGMENT 04

Retail design studios and shopfitting contractors

The US and Canadian design agencies and general contractors who specify and buy fixtures on behalf of brands. One agency relationship can bring many brands. A channel, not just a customer.

Who we contact: Principals and Project Directors at retail design studios, Estimators and Procurement Directors at shopfitting contractors.

This is the starting map, built from your profile. On the first call we refine it with you: which brands to lead with, which regions of the US and Canada, and which segments to hold back for later.

How it works from China

Your buyers never see the firewall. Your team never leaves WeChat.

The outreach runs from outside China, in US English, on infrastructure we build and manage. Winter Sun's team only steps in when a buyer is warm and wants to talk.

Step 1

We build the buyer list

Named contacts at the brands, studios and contractors in the four segments. Verified, then approved by you before anyone is contacted.

Step 2

We open the conversation

LinkedIn and email outreach in US English, run on outreach profiles and sending domains we manage. Every message is written for the person, not a template.

Step 3

We handle the reply

An English-speaking appointment setter on our team answers within hours, qualifies the buyer and books the meeting.

Step 4

Winter Sun joins warm

You get the booked meeting and a summary of what the buyer wants, delivered to your team in the tool you already use. The first hello is already done.

Trade shows

Meetings booked before you fly

Before any North American show you attend, we contact the brands and studios going ahead of time, so your calendar is full on day one.

Cold outreach works alongside your existing relationships, it does not replace them. An introduction from a brand you already serve is the strongest opening of all, and we help you make it.
Engagement model

How the engagement works: Build, Run, Own.

01

Build

We design and staff a complete North American sales unit for Winter Sun. The buyer map, the messaging, the outreach engine, the reply desk, the operator.

02

Run

We run it in-market for a fixed four months and prove it on real conversations and booked meetings, not slides.

03

Own

We hand over the playbook, the tooling, the dashboards and a trained operator. Winter Sun owns it. If you would rather we keep running it, there is an optional managed service.

One contractor, a network of specialists. You get one point of contact and one accountable team. You never manage multiple vendors. That is our job.
What this would cover for Winter Sun

One unit, matched to a new-region launch.

01

The North American buyer map and data

The four segments above turned into named, verified contacts: brands, design studios and contractors, with the right titles at each. Refreshed as the campaign learns which doors open.

02

The outbound engine, run from outside China

LinkedIn and cold email at scale, in US English, on infrastructure we own and manage. Run by Enquirer AI, the outbound engine inside Enquirer Consulting Group. Trade-show meeting booking is part of it.

03

Messaging and campaign assets for a US buyer

The Winter Sun story told the way a North American store development director reads it: the brands, the factory, the one-roof model, the lead times. Plus a reply desk that answers in fluent English within hours.

04

A trained operator, reporting and handover

A person who runs the unit day to day, trained during the engagement and handed over to Winter Sun with the playbook and the dashboards. The new region becomes a sales unit you own, not a project we run.

We match the build to the real constraint. The few disciplines that open North America, not the whole menu. Website, PR, video and the rest come later, if and when they earn their place.
The plan // four months

One named deliverable every month.

Month 1

Build

Buyer map approved by you. Messaging signed off. Outreach profiles, sending domains and the reply desk stood up. Your team's handoff into WeChat or DingTalk agreed.

Month 2

Live

Outreach running across the first two segments. First warm conversations and booked meetings, visible to you in a live dashboard as they land.

Month 3

Scale

The segments that respond get more volume. Meetings booked ahead of your next North American show. Operator shadowing every step.

Month 4

Hand over

Playbook, tooling, dashboards and the trained operator transferred to Winter Sun. You own the unit. Managed service available if you want us to stay on the tools.

Proof // real, named clients

Different product, same job.

Our reference clients are US manufacturers and distributors with a strong product and no outbound engine, selling to buyers who did not know them yet. That is Winter Sun's position in North America today.

US medical imaging parts and service
They moved from cold calling to targeted outreach run on our engine.
Enquirer AI helps us identify the right people and start the conversation in a much smarter way.
Tim RathChief Operating Officer, Innovative Radiology
US medical diagnostics and devices
Personalized outreach at scale, run beside their existing sales team.
Tools like Enquirer AI allow us to personalize outreach at scale in a way that simply wasn’t possible before.
Innovative MedicalSales leadership, US medical diagnostics and devices
We run our own growth on the same engine. Every meeting Enquirer Consulting Group books for itself comes from the LinkedIn and email system we would build for Winter Sun. We only sell what we use.
The next step

A first conversation, with Ting in the room.

Thirty minutes with Winter Sun's leadership, Ting Zhou and our founders, in English and Chinese. We walk the buyer map together, agree which brands to lead with, and decide whether a four-month build is the right move.

Book the first conversation 30 min

No pricing on this page. We scope and price live on a later call, built for Winter Sun. This page shows enough to decide whether the conversation is worth having.