About Telop

About · People

The people who run it.
All of them are on this page.

Tamir Elbaz and Hod Ben Yada knew each other long before Telop existed. They went separate ways. Tamir moved to China, started out in manufacturing and spent the years since in supply chain and logistics. Hod developed products and took them to market, and eventually brought one of them to China to be made.

They met again there, on the ground, and Tamir helped get it produced. In 2014 they founded Telop together. Between them they have sat on both sides of the table: one arriving with a product that had to be made, the other on the side that makes it. That is still how the company reads a job.

The management team runs every order: the two founders, plus quality and logistics, client communication, finance and the office. Behind them sits the project-management, QC, sourcing and logistics team in Foshan. You will know which of them is on your project, because you will be emailing them.

Hod Ben Yada
Hod Ben Yada
Founder
Tamir Elbaz
Tamir Elbaz
Founder
May
May
Office Manager
Rachel
Rachel
Finance
Doris
Doris
Customer Relationship
Kewei
Kewei
QC & Logistics
The Telop office in Foshan
Our own office, not a desk in someone else’s
Colleagues reviewing a project on screen in the meeting room
Reviewing a live order
Two colleagues checking a product against the drawing on screen
Checking a part against the drawing
The Telop team at work in the Foshan office
Foshan - the office floor
Telop and client walking a supplier’s yard
At a supplier, with the client
2014
Active in Asian manufacturing since
6
In management, all pictured
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Offices we run ourselves - Foshan and Hong Kong
Where we operate

Foshan, Hong Kong, Israel, Czech Republic.
Two of those are offices we run ourselves.

Our office is in Nan Hai district, Foshan, inside the Guangdong manufacturing belt.

Base

Foshan

Guangdong. Our operational base - furniture, joinery, stone, glass, aluminium and interior production.

Own office
Structure

Hong Kong

Business structure, contracting, banking and international trade documentation.

Own office
Network

Guangdong belt

Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Zhongshan - supplier network within working distance of the base.

Supplier network
Representation

Israel & Czech Rep.

Client-side representation in Europe and Israel - same team, same language, same time zone.

Representation
Production resources

Where the capacity actually is.

Our supplier file is not a directory we bought. We built it one supplier at a time, from the ones we have found, qualified and used, and for each we record what they make, where they are, and whether they manufacture or resell.

315
Suppliers on file

We opened each record ourselves, after working with the supplier.

75
Cities

290 of them in China. The other 25 are in Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Poland, Czech, Israel and the Middle East.

158
Inside the Pearl River Delta

The cluster our Foshan office sits inside. Most of it is within a day’s drive.

Pearl River DeltaOur base · 0–2h by road

Guangzhou · Shenzhen · Dongguan · Foshan · Huizhou · Zhongshan - furniture, joinery, glass, aluminium, hardware, packaging, electronics
158

Yangtze Delta~2h by air

Shanghai · Ningbo · Yiwu · Wenzhou · Hangzhou · Suzhou - small goods, textiles, accessories
54

Fujian~2h by air

Quanzhou · Xiamen · Fuzhou - footwear, sports goods, technical textiles
24

Shandong~3h by air

Qingdao · Jinan · Linyi - heavier goods and industrial materials
20

Central China~2h by air

Wuhan · Changsha · Zhengzhou - volume production inland
18

North China~3h by air

Beijing · Tianjin · Hebei - industrial materials and components
16

Outside ChinaAlternative origin

Vietnam · Japan · Korea · Taiwan · Poland · Czech · Israel · Middle East - where tariff, origin rules or lead time make China the wrong answer
25

We record whether each supplier manufactures or resells - so far 132 as manufacturers, 54 as both and 19 as traders, with the rest of the file still to be classified. It changes who you are actually talking to, what a price really contains, and who can fix it when something is wrong. We make that distinction before we quote you.

Standards & trade infrastructure

Produced to recognised standards.
Our suppliers hold the certificates. We check them.

Standards we produce to
ISO CE European Norm RoHS

Telop holds no certification of its own. These are the standards we build and check production against, and the certificates belong to the suppliers who hold them. We will never show you one of theirs as if it were ours.

Banking & trade cover
HSBC Bank of China ICBC OCBC AIG

The banks and insurers we work through for international payment, letters of credit and cargo cover. We bank with them. They have not endorsed us.

Talk to the people who will run it.

The management team, all of them above. Your project will sit with one of them.

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