The grocery business is hard and can be very expensive if you’re not careful. We’re mentors here to guide you through the growth process. Be it finding a copacker, setting up distribution, identifying the right retail partners or establishing social media solutions we’re here to help.
Since 2012, Grow Cooperative has helped emerging and established brands create sustainable, profitable revenue streams.
We do thorough work when it comes to helping businesses develop and commercialize products, distribution networks and sales opportunities.
Who We Are
Kiowa Saunders
Kiowa has over twenty years of experience in the retail industry, having led both retail and brand operations. His extensive background allows him to offer insights from a category manager and buyer's perspective while bringing a visionary drive to developing, sourcing, selling, and producing innovative, market-leading products.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Ryan has an extensive background in retail and CPG. He spent over eight years at Safeway, where he developed private label products and established Safeway’s first-ever copacking network for beverages. He has also held leadership roles at Group Campari and Dole Packaged Foods. Co-founding New Barn with Kiowa, Ryan helped scale the company to a $12 million run rate within two years. Additionally, he has successfully commercialized well known products, including Bachan’s, one of the top-selling sauces in the U.S., along with numerous other products.
We’re here to support
you through each phase of business.
We understand what it truly takes to build a business because we’ve risked our own savings in that pursuit. Through that risk we’ve developed a deeper appreciation for the stress it causes and what it takes to deliver positive outcomes. We want to prepare you for that process, our services are here to support you through each phase.
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• Do you have open capacity that needs to be filled?
• We specialize in pairing highly capable manufacturers with partners that can move significant volumes.
• We can move ingredients to other manufacturers or finished goods to best in class retailers
• We manage the front end so you can focus on what you do best.
• We want long term partners where we become part of the team
Reach out so we can learn more about your business!
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• It all starts with the 1000-day plan and then we work our way back from there.
• We want to minimize the amount it costs to test your concept
• The goal is to build a sustainable business that rests on two pillars; velocity and profitability
• Our focus is on the California market, we find you a distribution and retail partner that allow you to better understand your offer.
• Once you’ve achieved the desired velocity we then work to expand your offer to the rest of market
Reach out for a free 30 minute consultation!
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• We help emerging and established brands develop award winning differentiated products.
• Through in-depth research we find manufacturers that can provide sustainable scalable solutions
• We act as imbedded team members to support the cross functional development of new items
• We pay special attention to cost to make sure you achieve your financial objectives
• We stay engaged to assure success
Reach out so we can better understand your needs!
What we’ve accomplished
Held corporate roles several with fortune 50 retailers + CPG’s
Commercialized thousands of products
Conducted extensive research in multiple categories
Co-founded 3 national brands
Developed amazing relationships with large and small suppliers/copackers
Developed an efficient process for launching new items
Managed billions in co pack agreements
Played match maker for businesses large and small
