NINE KINGS | HISTORY

Taken from the Chinese name, “9 Xi”, Nine Kings’ number 9 in Asian royalty translates to Forever and Powerful; “Xi” translates as the red royal wax seals Emperors chopped on official decrees. In that vein, the Nine Kings team was form – a forever solution to building global brands.

Established in 2008, Nine Kings has quickly become a trusted global sourcing, production and manufacturing solution for some of the world’s fastest growing brands. Our team serves as a powerful accelerator of creation and innovation. We align our manufacturing velocity, deep relationships and know how to bring our US brand partners vision to life.

Nine Kings is responsible for over $500 million dollars of retail product annually fueling the volume growth and distribution of some the fastest growing U.S. brands such as Tory Burch, C. Wonder, Bonobos, EnduraCool, Copper Fit, Idea Village Products, Ontel Products, Bolt Micromobility, HairMax , Trumedic , Mantis, and many more.

Our Shanghai team of 38 includes engineering, project management, procurement and shipping specialists. Nine Kings deep expertise ranges from apparel and home bedding, to kitchen electronics, landscaping and power tools, to health and wellness, as well as Class 2 FDA electronics.

In addition we own and operate a 40,000 S.F. assembly factory in the TongXiang China region, helping our partners fill 10,000 plus Walmart, Target, CVS , Home Depot, Bed Bath Beyond, Costco, and Walgreens stores across America every season.

With his investing partner Christopher Burch, Nicholas Matfus founded Nine Kings to provide its clients with an end-to end innovation, sourcing and manufacturing solution with know how in the dynamic business landscape in China.

Graduating with architectural and premedical sciences degrees from Princeton University, Nicholas combines a creative curiosity and fascination with product invention with the business acumen to make it happen.

He lived in Shanghai for 15 years beginning in 2000, successfully building Nine Kings into the trusted business solution it is today, a powerful organization for accelerating our brands retail execution."