heh, some manufacturers honour their deal with partcicular dealers to provide the equipment for a certain region. Even if theres other dealer interested in dealing the stuff, the main manufacturer wont give the dealership, instead direct those who are interested to the already appointed dealer for stock and distro deal if applicable.
But then its possible also for the manufacturer to hand out couple of delaership thing. If you have the budget to bring in everything in their inventory and able to maintain a certain sales target each year(not all, some perhaps)
So wanna mesa in local shore, must find someone with capital, able to put down the money for everything and more, so to get a better selling price perhaps, but maybe not able to sell those amp at a regular rate of few amps each month but just cater to people wanting to try. Hey ho lets go!
just a guess and imaginary response