What you get
Three weeks from now, you can be talking to the distributors who already sell your category.
You tell Cresques what you make and where you want to sell it. You get back the companies that win contracts for exactly that — with the proof, the way to reach them lawfully and what they will ask you for. Less searching, more signing.
The same market, before and after
Without Cresques
With Cresques
WithoutA directory lists hundreds of companies that “sell medical supplies”.
With CresquesYou see the ones that won public contracts for your category in the last three years — with the contracts.
WithoutThe biggest name on the list turns out to be your competitor's own sales office.
With CresquesEach researched winner is labelled: independent distributor, manufacturer, or a manufacturer's subsidiary.
WithoutYou send a cold e-mail and learn later it was unlawful in that country.
With CresquesYou know before you write whether a first e-mail is allowed — and what to use where it is not.
WithoutThe first call ends with “send us your CE file and GPSR details”.
With CresquesYou arrive with what distributors in that country ask for, prepared.
WithoutMonths of desk research before the first real conversation.
With CresquesA shortlist in days, conversations in weeks.
What lands on your desk
For every country and product category you choose.
A map of your market
How many public contracts were awarded for your product categories in the country, by how many buyers, how often and since when — so you know the size of the door before you knock.
A shortlist with proof
The companies that already sell your category there, ranked by contracts won. Every name is tied to award notices you can open: buyer, lot, value, date.
Partner or competitor — told apart
When you open a company profile, Cresques researches what the company is, quoting its own website and registers: an independent distributor you can sign, a manufacturer, or a manufacturer's own subsidiary. Each quote is checked on its page.
The way in, step by step
How the country buys, how distributors there work with suppliers, what to prepare and in which order — from first contact to the first order.
The lawful first contact
Whether a first business e-mail is allowed in that country, what the opt-out must say, and which channel to use where e-mail is not allowed.
What they will ask for
CE marking, the EU responsible person under GPSR, product data in the local language, delivery terms — the checklist distributors work through before price.
Your first message, in their language
A short, specific first message to each shortlisted distributor, written for that market and that company, with how to send it lawfully there.
Answers when you ask
An assistant in the app answers in a few sentences from your own markets and evidence: whom to contact first, what a profile shows, how to reach a company lawfully. Questions about the app are free; a question about your data costs 1 credit, and Growth and Scale include 100 a month.
Illustration — company names and figures are examples. In the app every name carries real award notices.
Smaller tenders, too — Poland first
Live for PolandThe atlas is built from TED, where the EU publishes contracts above its thresholds — from 1 January 2026, €140,000 for supplies bought by central government and €216,000 for other public buyers. By the European Commission's estimate, about four in five public contracts fall below those thresholds and do not have to appear on TED — where they are published, it is on national portals. Poland is live: the award notices of the Biuletyn Zamówień Publicznych for the last 12 months, companies only, with the same evidence — who won, for whom, how much and when — below the threshold. Growth includes smaller tenders in 1 market and Scale in 3; every plan sees how much there is. More countries follow, market by market.
Source: European Commission, Communication 2023/C 98 I/01 (counted by number of contracts; by value, most spending is above the thresholds).
Open tenders and buying signals — an add-on to your plan
Early accessAlerts in every paid plan tell you who won in the markets you follow. The add-on turns that e-mail into a working list: the open tenders of your categories in the market, with deadlines and links, while you can still bid or pass them to your distributor; and the signals that a company is buying now — a distributor that just won a multi-year framework, a foreign company that won there for the first time. Sold per market per month on top of any paid plan.
€29 per market per month, net. Early access: request it on a market's page, we switch it on within 10 working days, and you pay only from the month it is on.
Why the label matters
The biggest name on the list is rarely your partner.
We researched the largest winners of public medical-device contracts in Poland, Germany and France. Only about one in five is an independent distributor. Most are the local sales companies of the manufacturers you compete with. Cresques tells you which is which before you write.
Cresques research, October 2026: the 93 largest winners in five medical-device categories (CPV 3310, 3311, 3314, 3316, 3319) in the three countries, classified from the companies' own websites, company registers and group filings (the 93rd is a leasing company). How we verify
- independent distributors
- 1920%
- manufacturers' own subsidiaries
- 5458%
- manufacturers
- 1213%
- manufacture and distribute
- 78%
the partners you can sign
they sell their group's products
your competitors
a partner for some ranges
In 30 seconds
The same story, in short videos.
Presenter generated with AI. The facts and figures are ours, with their sources on this site.
The biggest winner is rarely your partner28 s Same e-mail, different country25 s The atlas of who sells what29 s Thirty-eight million is not a sale23 s Four in five contracts never reach TED27 s
Your first three weeks
1 · Day 1
Tell us what you make and where
Pick a country. Upload a brochure or paste your website — Cresques proposes the product categories; you confirm them.
2 · Days 2–3
See who already sells it
Your market map and the companies winning contracts for your categories, with the contracts behind each name.
3 · Week 1
Choose your ten
Drop the manufacturers and their subsidiaries, keep the independent distributors that match your range and region.
4 · Weeks 2–3
Start the conversations
Reach them the lawful way for that country, with the documents they will ask for ready — and add the next country when the first distributor signs.
About us, briefly
Cresques reads the public record of who wins which contracts across Europe — over 400,000 award notices published since November 2023 — and turns it into distributor shortlists for manufacturers. We are named after Abraham Cresques, who drew the Catalan Atlas in 1375 so that merchants could find their way to new markets. More about us · How we verify
Before you decide
- What exactly do I get when I sign up?
- For each country and product category you choose: a map of public contracts in your categories, the companies that won them with the award notices behind every name, a label telling distributors from manufacturers for every profile you open, a country guide to the route into the market and what distributors there expect, the lawful way to make first contact and a first message drafted in their language.
- How quickly will I have a shortlist?
- The market map and the list of winning companies are there as soon as your categories are confirmed — a shortlist is a matter of days, not months of desk research.
- Do I have to sell to the public sector?
- No. Public contracts are evidence that a company already sells your category in that country. You approach those companies as a supplier; whom they sell to next is their business.
- Why not just use a business directory?
- Directories list who says they sell a category. Cresques shows who actually won contracts for it, when, for whom and for how much — and, for every profile you open, whether the company is a distributor at all.
- Which countries are covered?
- Every EU and EEA country whose public contracts are published on TED, the EU's procurement journal — 30 countries — plus guides for the UK, Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia and Turkey. It is built for manufacturers from anywhere — Europe, the US or Asia — selling into Europe.
- Does Cresques cover tenders below the EU thresholds?
- Yes — for Poland today, in the Growth and Scale plans. TED, where the atlas comes from, publishes contracts above the EU thresholds — from 1 January 2026, €140,000 for supplies bought by central government and €216,000 for other public buyers. By the European Commission's estimate, about four in five public contracts fall below those thresholds and do not have to appear on TED — where they are published, it is on national portals. For Poland, Cresques reads the award notices of the Biuletyn Zamówień Publicznych (last 12 months, companies only) with the same evidence: who won, for whom, how much and when. Every plan sees how much there is; Growth includes the full picture for 1 market and Scale for 3. More countries follow.
- Is there help inside the app?
- Yes. The Ask Cresques assistant answers short and to the point — about how the app works, and about your own markets, companies and messages. Up to 10 questions about the app a day are free; a question that reads your data costs 1 credit, and Growth and Scale include 100 such questions a month. Conversations are kept for 30 days.
- What does it cost?
- You start free: every new account gets 10 credits once, enough for one market map. After that you pay with credits for what you unlock — a market map is 10 credits, a full company profile 4, a message 1, a question about your data to the assistant 1 — with plans from €49 a month and no annual contract. See the pricing page.
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