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Brand Programs

A Partnership Built Around Your Brand

A brand program with Living Ikon is more than a sourcing arrangement. It is a structured, season-by-season collaboration designed to grow your range, protect your brand’s visual identity, and give you consistent access to new product — without starting from scratch every time you need something new.

We work with a select number of wholesale and retail partners on dedicated brand programs: long-term relationships where our design capability, manufacturing access, and quality systems operate as an extension of your own team.

What A Brand Program Means In Practice
A brand program formalises the relationship between your business and ours — creating continuity, priority access, and a shared product pipeline that compounds value over time.
Dedicated Design Input
Your program has access to our in-house CAD design team for ongoing range development — new categories, seasonal introductions, and range extensions developed in response to your market needs, not a general catalogue cycle.
SEASONAL RANGE REVIEWS
We schedule formal range reviews each season — reviewing what’s performing, identifying gaps, and presenting new product concepts aligned with your brand positioning and target markets. You see what’s coming before it goes to anyone else.
PRODUCT PIPELINE MANAGEMENT
We maintain a live pipeline of your products — approved specifications, finish formulations, retained reference samples, and production records — so that reorders are consistent and new introductions integrate seamlessly with existing range.
PRIORITY FACTORY ACCESS
Brand program partners have priority scheduling in our factory network, particularly important during high-demand periods. Your production doesn’t compete with opportunistic orders.
CONSISTENT ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
One point of contact who knows your brand, your product history, and your commercial priorities — not a rotating inbox.
THE COMMERCIAL CASE FOR A BRAND PROGRAM

Ad hoc sourcing is expensive in ways that aren’t always visible: time spent re-briefing, inconsistency between orders, missed seasonal opportunities, and the constant effort of managing a supplier relationship without a shared foundation.

A brand program eliminates most of this overhead. Your specifications are locked. Your factory relationships are maintained. Your design pipeline is running. When the season changes, you’re ready — not starting from zero.

Buyers on brand programs consistently achieve:

  • Faster time from brief to production-ready sample
  • Greater finish and quality consistency across seasons
  • Stronger retail differentiation through exclusive, brand-specific product
  • Lower per-order management cost as the relationship matures
Brand programs suit buyers who:
  • Have an established wholesale or retail furniture brand with multi-season sourcing needs
  • Want a supply partner who understands their brand as well as their own team does
  • Are growing their range year-on-year and need a partner who can keep up
  • Value consistency, exclusivity, and strategic product planning over transactional supply

GETTING STARTED

Brand programs begin with a conversation about where your business is today and where you want it to be. We assess fit, discuss scope, and agree on how the relationship should be structured — before any product work begins.

Contact us to discuss whether a brand program is the right structure for your sourcing needs.