History and Origin
Before establishing Worldwide Brands, Chris Malta spent many years as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, designing and building corporate and ecommerce server platforms and managing major installations for Fortune 100 businesses. In 2003, he was a founding partner of a wholesale company in New York that distributed darts and dartboard products. To date, he has been engaged in wholesale, retail, and entrepreneurial endeavors for more than thirty years, and currently serves as the CEO of Worldwide Brands, Inc. Malta is the author of numerous books on online retail and product sourcing, and the co-author of What to Sell On eBay and Where to Get It with Lisa Suttora, founder of Blue Island Marketing Group. From January 2005 to June 2007, he co-hosted The Entrepreneur Magazine eBiz Show and The Entrepreneur Magazine Product Sourcing show with his business partner Robin Cowie. Additionally, he has served as the product sourcing editor for eBay Radio since 2006.
In 1998, Malta started an ecommerce website but struggled to find product suppliers. After being scammed by numerous Internet middlemen, his frustration led him to develop, through trial-and-error, a thorough research process for finding and verifying genuine wholesale suppliers who would allow their products to be sold on the Internet. Upon publishing a short article series in Web Pro News about his product sourcing experiences and challenges, he received a tremendous amount of feedback from other frustrated online retailers. To meet this market demand, Malta established The Drop Ship Source Directory, which he renamed Worldwide Brands and incorporated in January 2001.
Read more about this topic: Worldwide Brands
Famous quotes containing the words history and/or origin:
“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)