How we build a supplier base you can actually reach
When we find suppliers for your request, you are not seeing a list we scraped off the open web. You are seeing companies that passed through a real pipeline: collected from audited sources, enriched with contact details, then verified as reachable. This is the buyer's-eye view of that foundation — where it comes from, and why "reachable" is the only number we care about.
The base, in live numbers
Our company base is 1.35 million+ firms (overseas + China). Of those, 773,000+ are reachable — meaning they have at least one working contact path (email, website, phone, or a public company profile). That is 57.1% of the whole base. The rest we either enrich or leave out of matches.
All figures are pulled live from our databases (overseas pool + China-based pool, aggregated the same way as this site's data page) and verified before publishing — no hand-typed numbers.
Where the companies come from
The base is built from real trading entities — companies that actually exhibit, import, or win public contracts. The ones we find for your request as suppliers are the exhibitors and proven makers; importers in the base are a separate, traceable source we do not surface as your suppliers:
- Trade-show exhibitors. Canton Fair (137th–139th sessions: 76,906 / 79,096 / 66,869 buyer-directory entries, plus 30,380 exhibitors from the 138th session), the Messe Frankfurt series (Ambiente, Automechanika, ISH, Heimtextil, Light+Building and more), and dozens of sector shows (CES, CONEXPO, MEDICA, GITEX, bauma, BAU…).
- Chinese factories. China is where most of your suppliers actually sit. Our China-based reachable pool is 60,000+ firms, built heavily from Canton Fair exhibitors plus China shows (CCMT machine tools, Hannover Messe industrial, and more). A booth at a major Chinese show is itself a vetting gate.
- Customs & public-procurement records. UK trade imports (488,494 importers), EU public-procurement awardees (246,301 EU public procurement awards, ~75% reachable), US federal procurement awards (27,455), and more — these are companies with a proven buying or supplying history, not placeholders. Counts are taken from this site's data page, which aggregates our databases.
Three steps: from "a name" to "a supplier you can email"
A source gives you a company and a product. It usually does not give you a working email. Here is the pipeline every supplier in your match result has crossed:
Why this is the buyer's advantage
You do not want "a million suppliers." You want a few suppliers you can reach and trust. By starting from audited shows and records, then refusing to put a supplier in front of you until they are reachable, the base stays small in the only dimension that matters — and every name in your match result is one you can actually email. (See which shows we cover · See how matching works)
Email us what you want to source and we'll match from this base — trade-show exhibitors and verified Chinese factories first.
Frequently asked
How big is the supplier pool you match from?
We match from an existing base we build and continuously enrich — 1.71M+ in total, with 1.04M+ reachable via verified contact info, including 819K+ overseas reachable companies plus a China-based pool of 224K+ reachable suppliers. For buyers, what matters is the verified supplier side: Chinese trade-show exhibitors and other audited B2B sources we can match against your request and reach on your behalf. This is the existing base, not a fixed limit: if the market or category you need isn't in it yet, we collect and enrich it on demand.
Where does TokoAI(51Toko)'s supplier data come from?
From public business databases, Chinese trade-show exhibitor directories, and government procurement records, cross-checked into a reachable, high-quality pool of China-based suppliers that we build and maintain ourselves.
How do you verify a supplier's contact before reaching out?
We only use contact points collected from public sources — a company's own website, trade-show directory, or public business registry — never guessed or machine-constructed addresses. Each address is checked for a real, reachable path before we send on your behalf, and the source is recorded so it can be traced. When a supplier we found responds, it comes from a real, checkable source you can verify yourself.