Transparency
We disclose the maker behind your order. No black-box middleman markup, no surprises in your packing list.
Our story
We started 5B Trading because the world's best craft was the hardest to find.
Vietnam has 720+ craft villages, millions of tonnes of agricultural residue ready to be valorised, and thousands of small mills that have never picked up an English call. We built the bridge.
Origin
From craft villages to container ports
A buyer once told us: "We tried sourcing from Vietnam for six months. We got three quotes that looked the same, two factories that ghosted us, and one container that shipped late by eight weeks." That's the moment we knew the gap was real.
5B Trading started inside the workshops — drinking jasmine tea with bamboo weavers in Phu Vinh, walking pyrolysis plants in the Mekong Delta, watching paper machines run at 3 AM in Bac Ninh. We don't recommend a maker we haven't sat with.
The buyer we serve
Built for serious international buyers — not bargain-hunters
Our buyers are garden retailers in Germany, packaging distributors in Australia, agricultural co-ops in Korea, design studios in Japan. They don't want the cheapest factory. They want the right one — certifiable, consistent, accountable for the third reorder.
That's why we start every relationship with a spec, a sample, and a paper trail. Letters of Intent before factory disclosure. Pre-shipment inspection before B/L. Same-day replies — from a person, not a queue.
30+Partner factories vetted on-site
6Continents shipped to
1 dayAverage reply time on RFQs
1/3Minimum container we'll consolidate
What we stand for
Four principles, every order, every time
Curation
Every factory in our network is vetted for quality, ethics, and export readiness. We say no more often than yes.
Heritage
Vietnamese craft villages carry centuries of skill. Our role is to bring that craft to global brands without losing what makes it special.
Partnership
Founder-level accountability. Same-day replies. We treat your first 1/3-container order with the same care as a buyer's tenth full container.
Journey
How we got here
Founded in Hai Phong
5B Trading registered as a sourcing-and-export partner serving Vietnamese makers.
First EU buyers shipped
Bamboo fence rolls and stretch film consolidated into mixed containers for German garden retailers.
Biochar partnership
Mekong Delta rice-husk biochar plants joined the network, opening the agricultural amendment line.
Curated network of 30+ factories
Across bamboo, rattan, ceramic, silk, biochar, charcoal, and specialty paper — each vetted on-site.
Founders
The people behind 5B Trading
Jenny Do
CEO & Founder
Years inside Vietnamese workshops — Phu Vinh weavers, Bat Trang ceramicists, Mekong biochar pyrolysis plants. Believes good sourcing is good storytelling.
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David Nguyen
Co-founder
Spent a decade matching European brands to Asian manufacturers. Joined 5B to fix the part of sourcing that black-box trading companies never solved: trust.
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Registered & ready to ship
Let's build something
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with a plan.
One working day reply. A real human, not a contact form auto-responder. No pressure, no spam, no ghost-quotes.