9 Quick Tips On How To Get Lower Bulk Oil Pricing From Your Supplier

Posted by Hannah Broaddus

Want to get the best deal on bulk edible oil for your business?  You may not to pry it out of your bulk oil ingredient supplier.  In fact, there's lots of simple things that you can do to help cut your own costs and save money.  Hopefully, your supplier is already suggesting them to you!

Take this list into your next meeting with your bulk oil vendor and try to put as many of these strategies into play as possible.  They will cut your costs, allow your team work more efficiently and best of all, prove your worth as a strategic and skilled purchasing manager.

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Advantages Of Working With A US Oil Supplier vs. Importing It Yourself

Posted by Hannah Broaddus

Choosing an olive oil supplier is a complex process. At the heart of this debate, before you begin doing comparisons, you’ll need to decide if you prefer to work with a US-based supplier or an international supplier. If you choose the latter, you will be responsible to import the oil yourself.

As you start the vendor comparison process for bulk olive oil, here’s a few advantages you might enjoy by working with a domestic supplier here in the US:

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Private Labeling in the Olive Oil Industry: A Brief Overview

Posted by Hannah Broaddus

A simple definition:  Private labeled products are products that are manufactured by one company for offer under a different company’s brand.

What is private labeling?

Over the last 15 years, demand for private labeled products has grown tremendously. Products across every category are now available with private label branding.

Private labeling is when a company selling a product, be it a grocery chain, food service supplier or wholesale distributor, will label it with their own exclusive brand. Sometimes, the brand may contain the store’s name, sometimes it may not. Private labeling allows the distributor to control the marketing of the product, and all the while, strengthening their company name in the eye of the consumer.

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We're excited to Introduce our NEW 3 Liter Tins!

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We're now offering tins!

Centra Foods is always working to expand our product line based on what our customers are looking for. Our mission is to offer a quality oils, surrounded by beautiful, easy-to-use packaging.  

That's why we're so excited to announce the addition of 3 Liter Tins to our current food service line! 

The tins are traditional packaging that is common in the food service, wholesale, food storage and even retail industries.  In fact, most chefs are already familiar with it in their kitchens.  You, our customers, asked for this packaging and we listened.  And boy, did we listen well!  

One of the things that we love so much about these new tins is that they're absolutely beautiful on a retail shelf or in your kitchen. 

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3 Tips to Protect your Wholesale Olive Oil Distribution Company

Posted by Hannah Broaddus

The Concerns of a Distributor

Centra Foods supplies Wholesale and Food Service Distributors with olive oil in bulk, and as a result, we get a lot of great business questions from companies in this industry.

One of the most common is from wholesale distributors, working with new accounts for olive oil. They are concerned that after they work hard to set up a new supply chain for their customer, they will eventually be cut out of the supply arrangement.

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