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Manufacturing and wholesale

Build the file for the business that cannot stop.

When the line stops, the loss is not the machine – it is the income while nothing ships. The quote is priced on specifics: what you make, who ends up using it, your peak stock, your slowest machine. This asks exactly those, one question per screen, and shows you the whole file before anything leaves.

Question 1

Your file, in plain words

Review it the way you would walk the floor before an order ships. Correct what needs correcting, then move it to the form and choose how the reply arrives.


      
      
    
Why we ask

What a complete manufacturing and wholesale file includes.

Property, product liability and downtime are priced on the questions below, and a file that answers them all gets a real quote on the first pass.

What you make, and who uses it

A product used by consumers, children or patients carries different liability than one bolted into a factory. The end use sets the rate before anything else.

The US question

Whether products end up in the United States. US sales move product liability more than almost anything else, and insurers ask it early.

The processes on the floor

Welding, spraying, plastics, woodwork, food. Each one moves the fire rate, and each one has insurers that like it and insurers that do not.

The slowest machine

The machine that takes longest to replace sets how long the income stops. That number decides the indemnity period – the one most often set too low.

Stock at its peak

A fire does not wait for a quiet month. The file carries your busiest number, not your average, so a loss in high season is not half insured.

The building and the sprinklers

Owned or leased, rebuild cost, and whether the space is sprinklered – one answer that moves the property rate a long way.

How the goods move

Your own trucks mean your own cargo cover. Carriers bring their own. The file says which, so nothing rides uninsured.

The record, told first

Claims and any decline or cancellation. All workable when they arrive from you, and all worse when they arrive from a database.

Property and stock, product liability, business interruption, equipment breakdown, cargo, cyber – what you pick at the end is what the quote comes back showing, priced line by line.

After you press send

Read by the desk that plans for downtime first.

Manufacturing and wholesale files go to the commercial desk and get read whole, not skimmed. The reply arrives the next business day, and usually the same day – email, phone, or a time to come in, chosen by you on the form.

Business insurance

Tell us about the business.

The more you tell us here, the fewer questions we have to ask later. Nothing is priced automatically. A broker reads it.

English, Punjabi, Hindi, Italian, Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken across our counters.

What are you looking for?
Tick everything that applies. If you are not sure, tick nothing and tell us below.
In your own words. “We frame houses” tells us more than a category ever will.
If it is inside 30 days, tell us now. Some markets need lead time.
If yes, paste the insurance clause here. Reading the actual wording is what stops a certificate being rejected.
How would you like us to reply?
We will use exactly this and nothing else.
We read the contract wording, not a summary of it.
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