About us

BRINGING JOYFULL DRINKS TO LIFE

With over 30 years of experience in the wine and spirits industry, Smit Wine & Beverages BV  was established by its founder Maarten Smit, late 2009. The aim of the company is to export and import distinctive spirits, wines and beers. 

The company office and warehouse is based in Vorden in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

Smit Wine & Beverages develops its activities in both domestic and various export markets with a stronghold in Turkey where we have an exclusive representative office with Galata Modern Im- Exports based in Istanbul. 

At Smit Wine & Beverages we work to match producers & brand-owners with the right partners and importers.
With our extended network in the industry we aim to be of crucial value as catalyst between producers and importers/distributors and retail-chains.

OUR CORE VALUES

We believe that small is beautiful, simple things are understandable, beauty is appealing, quality is a must and flexibillity is our key.

We see the opportunity, we are focussed on product and customer with a personal touch, we are positive & entrepreneurial minded, lean and mean, effective and always balanced.

We have to be the first and best in all that we do.

WE CARE TO GROW YOUR BRAND ON THE TURKISH MARKET

 Our know-how consists of an extensive experience in sales and marketing of alcoholic beverages in Turkey.

We constantly monitor the market on consumer behaviour, competition activity and performance in distribution

We activly work with social media in order to get real-time consumer-insight.

We anticipate and syncronize with latest the changes in governemental regulations and taxes

We work on succesfull tailormade brand/product introductions with the right importer – distributor 

Our output is to follow up on sales & stock development,  follow up on price levels, market penetration

Survey sub-agreements with distributors, hotels, retail chains, Cash&Carry, restaurants and Duty Free.