About us
Who we are
For more than fifteen years we have been doing the same thing, a little better each year: strengthening the portfolio, staying close to what the market asks for, and serving the customer next door and the one overseas to the same standard.
MJ Imports started as a wholesaler in Miami, at the exact point where the world's goods enter the Americas. Over the years that position stopped being merely geographic: today it is the reason a supermarket in Orlando and a distributor in Santo Domingo, Tegucigalpa or Guayaquil can source European, domestic and private-label product from the same place.
We run on two engines that complement each other. On one side the name brands, the ones shoppers already look for on the shelf and that nobody has to explain. On the other our home brands, developed in house, where we are particularly strong in licensed candy-with-toy and in nostalgia classics — the candy an adult recognizes from childhood and a child discovers for the first time.
Over time the portfolio stopped being only candy. Today it includes beverages, snacks, food, personal care and home care: more than a hundred brands that let a distributor cover much of their assortment with a single supplier and a single shipment.
A good share of our relationships did not start on the phone but face to face: at Sweets & Snacks, at the Las Vegas expo and at trade shows across the United States. Buyers we meet there come to the warehouse later, walk it, and leave with product the same day.
Because that is the other half of the business: our warehouse is not a closed shipping center, it is a place you walk into. Smaller wholesalers, distributors and sub-distributors, DSD operators, supermarket chains and international distributors all buy from us. Some load their van the same day; for others we build the container.
And the portfolio keeps growing. The newest addition is our wholesale perfumery line, focused on Arabic perfumery: the same logic applied to another category, bringing in a product with growing demand, healthy margin and still little competition in the wholesale channel.
Mission
To put the product people already want in front of every distributor in the Americas, before anyone else offers it: the brands everyone knows, the licenses kids ask for by name, candy with a toy, the classics that bring back memories, and our own brands. All with a single purpose — so our customers sell more and grow.
Vision
That in any store across the Americas — from Miami to Patagonia — there is something that came out of our warehouse. And to be the supplier one distributor recommends to another.
Reliability
The container ships complete and on the agreed date. Our business runs on repeat orders, not on a first sale.
Competitive pricing
We buy in volume and directly at origin. That turns into a cost that leaves the distributor a real margin.
Differentiated product
Licenses and in-house developments that are not available everywhere, so our customer does not have to compete on price alone.
A single supplier
Candy, beverages, snacks, personal care and perfumery in the same shipment. Fewer suppliers, less freight, less paperwork.