London · general merchant trading
Every consignment entered, checked, and settled.
STOCKWEIN LTD is a correspondence-led trading house. Goods are sourced against written briefs, handled on consignment, and sold onward under terms recorded before anything moves. The desk sits in London; the file is the firm.
- consignment
- settlement
- inspection
- carriage
- tender
- invoice
- manifest
- remittance
- consignment
- settlement
- inspection
- carriage
- tender
- invoice
- manifest
- remittance
The house
A house that trades in writing
A trading house that works by correspondence keeps its promises on paper. An enquiry arrives, a file is opened, and from that moment every material step — the brief, the offer, the counter, the confirmed terms — exists as a line that can be read back. STOCKWEIN LTD is organised around that discipline. The desk in London coordinates; suppliers, carriers and buyers act where the goods actually are; and the file records who undertook what, at which price, on which date.
General merchanting rewards patience. The firm deals in useful, unglamorous stock: the kind a wholesale buyer orders by specification and quantity, checks on arrival, and orders again when it performs as described. There is little theatre in that trade and a great deal of arithmetic, which suits the house well.
Consignment suits both sides of a careful trade. The owner of the goods keeps title while the house arranges storage, inspection and offering; the buyer commits once the parcel has been seen and described honestly. Between those two points sits the actual work: instructions to warehouses, carriage bookings, tally sheets, and a running account showing, at any hour, exactly where a parcel stands.
The measure of a merchant is dull to state and hard to fake: terms honoured, papers straight, remittances on the day they were promised. Everything else on this page is detail in service of those three habits.
Activities
The four ledgers
One desk, four books. Open a line to read how each part of the trade is actually run.
Sourcing
Work begins with a written brief: commodity, grade, quantity, packing, delivery window, and the terms a buyer will accept. The house circulates that brief to suppliers it already corresponds with, compares offers on a like-for-like basis, and returns one recommendation with the arithmetic shown. Samples are called for where the goods justify it, and the specification travels with the order so the inspection at the far end has something exact to measure against.
Consignment handling
Parcels arrive with paperwork, and the paperwork is checked first. Quantities are tallied against the manifest, condition is noted while the carrier is still present, and discrepancies are raised the same day in writing. Storage instructions, insurance cover and re-marking are arranged as the consignor directs. Throughout, the goods remain the consignor's property; the house holds them, describes them accurately, and accounts for them line by line.
Onward sale
Offers go to trade buyers with the description, the packing, the location of the goods and the terms of sale set out in full. Price discussion is kept short and courteous: a counter is answered with a figure, and a figure is answered with a decision. Once terms are agreed, the confirmation restates everything material, so neither side signs against a memory.
Records & settlement
Every trade closes in the books before it closes in fact. Invoices are raised against confirmed terms, remittances are matched to invoices as they land, and the file is ruled off only when both columns agree. Manifests, tally sheets and correspondence are retained in order, so a question raised long after delivery can be answered from the record itself, without reconstruction.
Delivery terms
Where responsibility changes hands
Delivery terms decide who carries each stage of a shipment: its cost, its formalities and much of its risk. The explorer below sketches five commonly quoted terms across five stages of a typical journey. Select a term to see where the seller's column ends and the buyer's begins.
| Term | Packing | Export clearance | Main carriage | Import clearance | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXW | Seller | Buyer | Buyer | Buyer | Buyer |
| FOB | Seller | Seller | Buyer | Buyer | Buyer |
| CIF | Seller | Seller | Seller | Buyer | Buyer |
| DAP | Seller | Seller | Seller | Buyer | Seller |
| DDP | Seller | Seller | Seller | Seller | Seller |
Write to the desk
Correspondence
The house answers what it can file. A message that opens with the right subject line lands on the right ledger the same morning; choose one below and the address will carry it for you.
Subject preset: none — a plain message is equally welcome.
Post reaches the registered office listed under Particulars below. Attachments shorten the first exchange considerably: a specification, a packing list or a copy invoice tells the desk most of what it needs to ask.