The company
Gutenberg Wesentlich Private Limited was incorporated in Ahmedabad in April 2022. We trade — we do not manufacture or farm — and our value lies in closing the distance between an Indian producer who can make the goods and an overseas buyer who cannot practically deal with one.
Our vision
We want to be regarded not merely as a supplier but as a strategic partner — one that understands a buyer's market, its regulations and its tolerances, and delivers against them consistently.
We are committed to raising the standard of Indian merchant export services through quality assurance, ethical sourcing, compliance rigour and market intelligence. International trade is more complicated than it needs to be; our work is to absorb that complexity so our clients do not have to.
In brief
| Incorporated | 22 April 2022, Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
|---|---|
| Constitution | Private limited company, Companies Act 2013 |
| Activity | Merchant export and commission agency — trading, not manufacturing — and international trade consulting |
| Categories | Agricultural commodities, food products, herbs and spices |
| Reach | Any airport or ocean terminal worldwide |
What we offer
Everything else we do sits around these three rather than beside them.
We source food commodities from trusted Indian suppliers and export them on our own account. We take title to the goods, carry the documentation burden, and deliver on agreed Incoterms — so you contract with one party rather than a supply chain.
Access Indian supply without establishing a local presence. We act as your team on the ground — identifying and qualifying suppliers, negotiating, managing relationships and following orders through to dispatch — on a commission basis.
Where a trading business is losing margin or time, we find it and say so. Landed-cost and costing models, the cash cycle and what frees it, feasibility on a corridor before you commit to it, supplier qualification, and the sequence a consignment follows from enquiry through to payment. Advice grounded in numbers, handed over as models and procedures your team keeps.
Delivered around them
Clearance formalities, accurate documentation, duty management.
Air and ocean routing, container booking, warehousing, tracking.
Pre-shipment inspection, third-party testing, certification and reporting.
Reducing cost and lead time across procurement, storage and transport.
Custom sourcing and packaging under your own brand.
Pricing, seasonality and harvest calendars for the commodities we trade.
What we hold ourselves to
Registrations and affiliations
| Registration | Number |
|---|---|
| Corporate Identity Number | U51505GJ2022PTC131310 |
| Importer-Exporter Code (DGFT) | AAJCG7270J |
| GSTIN | 24AAJCG7270J1ZC |
| FSSAI central licence | 10723999001001 |
| EU Registered Exporter (REX) | INREXAAJCG7270JEC004 |
| FIEO — Gujarat Chapter | AHD/581/2022-2023 |
| APEDA RCMC | RCMC/APEDA/01530/2023-2024 |
| India Pulses & Grains Association | M0031 |
Each of these can be verified independently with the issuing authority. We would rather you checked.
Leadership
Managing Director
Dipan founded Gutenberg Wesentlich in 2022. He holds an MBA in International Business from the University of Delhi and a BCom in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance from Ahmedabad University, and spent nearly three years at IndusInd Bank in retail foreign exchange — on the due-diligence and documentation side, training branch staff on transaction processing across 32 branches in Gujarat.
He is the signatory on every registration the company holds. When you write to us, you are writing to him.
Join us
We are building something deliberate here. If you care about international trade, value doing things correctly rather than quickly, and want to help connect Indian products with global markets, write to us with what you would want to work on.
Market development
Sourcing relationships are not built over email alone. In August 2023 we exhibited at the 2nd Uganda Buildcon International Expo in Kampala — representing an Indian principal, recruiting distributors and clearing our own samples through Ugandan customs.
| Event | 2nd Uganda Buildcon International Expo, 10–12 August 2023 |
| Venue | UMA Show Grounds, Lugogo, Kampala, Uganda |
| Supported by | Uganda Manufacturers Association, the India Pavilion, and the High Commission of India in Uganda |
| Our role | Exhibitor and channel-partner recruitment on behalf of an Indian manufacturer |
| Outcome | 142 distributor enquiries captured across East Africa |
What that exercise demonstrates is not a product line — it is a capability. We can establish a principal's presence in an unfamiliar market, handle the invitation, visa, freight and customs formalities for exhibition samples, and come back with a qualified list rather than a bag of business cards.
That is the commission agency offering in practice: acting as a manufacturer's operational presence abroad without them establishing an entity there. If you are a producer looking at a new market, or an importer looking for a counterpart who will actually go and look, this is the work.
