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Food & Beverage Distribution Channels

Your success across our distribution channels is our top priority.

We represent your company in a very large field within the world’s largest
economy and we are relentless in our pursuit of your brand’s success.

Complete, Detailed
Market Coverage

So you’ve created a sublime new product and now you want to take it to market – but which channel is the right one for you and your product?

Food and beverage distribution channels each come with their own pains. It is worth deciding which ones you want to pursue early on and then setting up your market strategy around proper channel penetration. No matter which channels you select, getting in front of the appropriate decision-maker is going to require

alot of shoe leather and effort to get your products approved and into consumers’ hands.

One key element in this channel selection process is time and the bottom line is that it always means money. The ability to quickly and efficiently enter each channel makes a ton of difference in your brand’s exposure and sales revenue for your products.

Navigating these channels is what we do best and why Savvy Palate is the ideal broker for you.

The Savvy Service Channels

Grocery Chain
Stores

A grocery store or supermarket is primarily engaged in retailing a general range of food products, which may be fresh, frozen, or packaged. These chains often have hundreds or thousands of stores throughout large regions of the country.

Mass
Merchandisers

Mass retail channels represent a modern system to sell food and non-food products. They are made up of great structures and multinationals corporations that, cover the whole national territory.

Club
Stores

Club stores offer a wide selection and deep inventory of food, grocery products, and general merchandise in large-sized packages to businesses and individuals that have purchased club memberships, enabling consumers to purchase substantially.

Convenience
Stores

A convenience store or shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as coffee, groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, tobacco products, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers, and magazines.

Drug
Stores

Drug stores are the destination channel of choice for health and wellness products and services. Drug store revitalized their retail stores and experiences to expand their food and beverage offerings.

Value
Stores

Value retailing is a big format store concept, where branded products and accessories are sold under best deals. These stores provide aspiration to the consumers to buy products at the best deals. Value retail stores offer products with an inexpensive price tag.

Duty
Free

A duty-free shop is a retail outlet whose goods are exempt from the payment of certain local or national taxes and duties, on the requirement that the goods sold will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country for personal use.

Spirits
Market

The spirits market consists of sales of potable liquors by entities that distil and blend liquors. The companies process, package and distribute spirits through various distribution channels to and commercial establishments.

Vending
Industry

This industry provides and services automated machines that sell merchandise, primarily snack foods and soft drinks, but also cigarettes, newspapers, and other goods.

E-commerce
Channel

Food eCommerce is where food and beverage businesses sell products via an eCommerce platform or online store. This includes fresh and non-perishable items, as well as everyday or specialty goods. Ecommerce platforms can manage web hosting, inventory management, payment processing, marketing, order fulfillment, and more.

Broadline
Distributors

Broadline distributors are distinguished by carrying thousands of different shelf-stable, packaged goods products that operators need in high volume and they are highly efficient in logistics and product delivery.

Cruise
Industry

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, they typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours and purchase items of choice.

Independent
Stores

Independent grocery stores are food retail establishments whose owners operate few outlets, publicly-traded chains that have a controlling stake owned by the family that founded the chain, or companies that are employee-owned. 20% of all shopping is done at independent stores.

Cash
& Carry

The phrase “Cash & Carry” originated in the first half of the 1900s. It is a self-service wholesale outlet where customers pay for their goods (Cash) and take those goods with them (Carry). The customers are retailers, companies, and associations. Typically, access to a Cash & Carry is for members or authorized companies only. Cash and Carry stores are self-service so buyers purchase goods, pack them and deal with the transportation on their own, as there is no delivery option provided by the store and credit transactions are also typically excluded.

Specialty
Stores

A specialty store carries a deep assortment of brands, styles, or models within a relatively narrow category of goods. Furniture stores, florists, sporting goods stores, and bookstores are all specialty stores.

Food
Service Industry

Food service or catering industry defines those businesses, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal prepared outside the home. This industry includes restaurants, schools, and hospital cafeterias, catering operations, and many other formats.

Hispanic
Consumers

Hispanics have become the largest minority group in the U.S. and they have a buying power of over 2 trillion U.S. dollars. Products targeting the Hispanic population are seen as a great opportunity for retailers and CPG companies as Hispanics will represent approximately over +30% of the U.S population by 2050.

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