Good merchandising starts with a strong strategy. At Provision & Company, we understand merchandising strategy because we’ve been merchants. We use our experience and our trusted relationships with buyers to expand your brand and grow your business. We know the merchant process and timelines for both national brand and private label products.

• STRONG BUYER PARTNERSHIPS

Our firm has strong relationships with merchants and merchandising leadership at our retail partners to help create new partnerships between your brands and the retailer.

• UNDERSTAND BUYER STRATEGY

Because we have close relationships with the merchants, we learn their strategy and can help you navigate how to position your brand to fit within their strategy.

• DISCOVER ASSORTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

As we meet regularly with our retail partners we can access and discover potential whitespace opportunities and inform our clients to maximize sales.

• DEVELOP COMPELLING LINE REVIEWS

We will help you craft the story to sell your products into our retail partners. Our convenient location also allows for timely sample management.

• NEGOTIATE A WINNING COST

As expert negotiators we will help you get your product sold into our retail partners at a cost that increases your profitability and makes for a winning solution.

At Provision & Company, our retail expertise is broad and deep. With merchant experience across all categories and types of products, as well as expertise from the basic functions to a leadership level, we can help your brand with positioning and future brand development.

• INDUSTRY TRENDS

We stay current on what’s happening within the industry and overall marketplace. We can provide strategic analysis on competition as well as other retail partners.

• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Because we know the product development process, we can help you create and build something incredible. By using the talents and expertise of our team we can design unique products that meet consumer demands.

• FORWARD THINKING

We are always thinking ahead for our clients. It’s important to know where the business is headed in the ever changing industry of retail.

Provision & Company provides world-class account management for ongoing business needs at our retail partners. We know the retailer systems and technology to help your brands succeed and grow.

• TOTAL RETAILER COMMUNICATION

Our team will communicate directly with the buyer, analyst and specialist to make sure your business is humming at all times.

• REPORTING

Understand how your business is doing through our detailed weekly reporting which includes sales, inventory and measurements of instocks. But we provide more than just the data: our team will extract insights from the reporting to help guide you in your business decisions.

• ITEM BASICS

We help our clients set up item basics like cost, retail and dimension. We also can help with ongoing maintenance like price changes, case pack changes and product details. Finally we will make sure the online product listing looks amazing with photos and videos.

• ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

We we can help manage invoices and payments as well as chargebacks and trade spend optimization

At Provision & Company we build brands. We are marketing experts that can help reach consumers through digital, social, print and out-of-home tactics. We start with the strategy and then utilize our design team to make the creative really pop.

• BRAND CREATIVE

Build a brand that speaks to consumers. Utilize our expertise to help refine your brand so that it works the hardest for you.

• MARKETING PROGRAMS

We work with our retail partners in marketing to utilize all of the tactics that a retailer has to offer. From media networks to promotional spend to digital advertising, we are your resource to help you navigate and maximize your marketing campaigns.

The team at Provision & Company is very detail oriented. We will help forecast your future inventory and production needs. Additionally, we will work with our retail partners on your behalf to accelerate collaborative planning and manage inventory operations.

• SHIPMENT AND INVENTORY FORECASTING

We will help you create detailed weekly forecast for your products and make sure that everything is going smoothly in a retailer’s inventory system. Additionally, we can help with peaks of seasons as well as promotions.

• INSTOCK MANAGEMENT

We will manage weekly replenishment orders, and execute on set and promo orders. We will also identify opportunities based on instocks and stay ahead of potential delays.

Provision & Company helps your brands grow digitally. We are experts in e-commerce, managing the unique challenges in a fast moving channel to keep your product pages looking their best and beating competition.

• NEW CUSTOMER ACQUISITION

We help our clients utilize key e-commerce tactics to acquire new customers and increase page views and conversion.

• PRODUCT DETAIL PAGES

It’s important to make sure all of the details on product pages are optimized. Let our team keep all of your info working hard for you from your product titles to your long copy to your images.

• WEB CONTENT SCORECARDS

We will work to increase your vendor digital score, leading to increased opportunities to grow sales and shipments.

• REVIEW MANAGEMENT

Our team will help maximize your reviews and use feedback from consumers to enhance your brand and products.