TFIThe Fisherman Institute

01The thesis

Your brand, in the markets it hasn’t reached yet.

We take excellent products abroad: we judge where they can win, position them for each market, and place them with the buyers who decide.

50+Brands represented
6World regions covered
20+Years of Fortune 500 leadership

02The method

Three steps. Always in this order.

01

Assess

Can your product win abroad — and in which markets? We answer this before anything is sold.

02

Position

The message and the price, rebuilt for each market around how its buyers actually decide.

03

Place

Direct to the distributors and retailers who matter — negotiated through to first orders.

The full method →

03The world

Six regions. One standard.

No home market, no favourites. Wherever your buyers are, we work that region to the same depth.

  • Europe
  • North America
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Gulf & MENA
  • Latin America
  • Africa

How we read each region →

04The operator

Portrait Mohamed Eweed, founder of TFI

Mohamed Eweed

Founder · TFI

“The best product rarely wins. The one positioned right, in front of the right buyer, does.”

Two decades of commercial leadership at Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Pfizer, Abbott and Lundbeck.

Book cover The Fish in the Room — book cover

Author of The Fish in the Room — why people buy, and why good arguments lose. Read the book

05Begin

Twenty minutes. We’ll tell you which markets fit your product.

Book a market review →

Buyer or distributor looking for vetted products? Tell us what you stock.