About Forager
Pamela has been reading food labels since her early days as a child shopping in the aisles with her mom. Healthier food options were frustratingly limited where she lived, until she moved away to college where she discovered a Whole Foods Market, then called Bread and Circus. Like a kid in a (healthier) candy shop, she spent her college years and beyond familiarizing herself with a whole new, healthier world, both as a customer and while working in their Nutrition Department, where she was able to hone her depth of knowledge on supplements and cleaner, functional body care options.
Excitement always stirred when when a brand’s sales rep would visit, bringing a wealth of knowledge and samples. It was a highlight of the day! She went on to work additionally for two different NCG Co-ops, as both a buyer and manager of a Wellness Department, where she gained additional insight into the factors involved in choosing products for the shelf, understanding customer needs, understanding why brands failed, and how to ensure a brand’s products thrived.
As she transitioned out of retail, her love for working with these brands and talking to others about them, evolved into a new role as a sales representative for one of the largest CPG brokers in the country, Natural Specialty Sales (Acosta). Here, she got to work alongside many of the top natural legacy brands in the market, and gained extensive experience understanding how to monitor a brand’s success, identify voids on a shelf, set up promotions and most importantly, listen to the needs of her retailers.
Forager Sales works to establish strong relationships between brands, retailers and ultimately their customers, using as a conduit the knowledge, education, skill and confidence that comes from these years of experience—ensuring the brand/retailer partnership will continue to not only grow together but thrive.
Servicing: independent & chains;
Cross-channels:
Grocery
Convenience
Restaurant
Liquor
Fitness
Hotel/Spa
and Pet
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Prioritizing:
Organic
Non-GMO
Seed-Oil Free
Fair Trade
Low-Sugar
Clinically-studied
Locally manufactured