First of all, please allow me to introduce our company, Boots (Retail Buying) Ltd. We are a regional buying and quality assurance office of a UK based company; The Boots Company PLC - which has a large national store chain with over 1400 branches in the UK and a growing presence in Thailand and Taiwan. Our Hong Kong office is primarily responsible for Far East procurement and is actively involved in seeking new product sources for our stores. Our buyer currently buy a vast volume (over 2million pieces a year( of Hair pins & grips (just plain without any decoration). As our main market is UK, the pins & grips must comply with EU Nickel directive, i.e. nickel free. We would be very interested to hear from you if you can supply this type of product.