Focus Bar · Wholesale engine

The wholesale engine for CPG brands.

Focus Bar absorbs everything about your retailers and the chains you want in. It turns that into new doors, reorders, winbacks and restocks. You approve targets and messaging in about 15 minutes a week. The engine handles the rest.

Works globally, wherever the shelves areYour retailer book stays 100% yours~15 min of your time per week
The engine

Everything about a retailer flows in. Open doors flow out.

The engine absorbs your account history and everything knowable about a chain. Doors, categories, buyers, distributor coverage. What comes out the other side is pipeline you can count.

Your account historyorders · replies · historyStore + door datalocations · chain size · footprintBuyer profilesroles · seniority · LinkedInCategory contextassortment · shelf · shoppersDistributor coverageUNFI · KeHE · regional linesFOCUSBARWHOLESALE ENGINENew doorsfirst order from a new chainReordersnext order on an active accountWinbacksa churned account back on the sheetRestocksan empty slot refilled in timeAccount historyorders · repliesStore + door datachains · footprintBuyer profilesroles · LinkedInCategory contextshelf · shoppersDistributor coverageUNFI · KeHE · regionalFOCUSBARWHOLESALE ENGINENew doorsfirst order, new chainReordersnext order, live accountWinbackschurned account recoveredRestocksempty slot refilled
retailer data flowing inpipeline flowing out
How it works

You approve. The engine runs.

Focus Bar is infrastructure, not an agency. You don't manage it. You approve what it does and take the warm replies.

STEP 01

Approve targets

You get a list of chains matched to your product and channel. Exclude any you don't want touched. Everything else moves forward.

~15 min / week
STEP 02

Engine builds the case

For each chain the engine builds the case for your product. Real numbers from your verified data, framed for that retailer's shelves and shoppers.

automated
STEP 03

Engine works the accounts

It reaches the right buyer at each chain and keeps things moving. New chains, active accounts and lapsed ones, all in parallel.

automated
STEP 04

Warm replies land with you

Sample requests and buyer replies get routed to you with full context. You handle the conversation that actually matters. The close.

you close
What flows out

Four ways the engine grows your wholesale.

New doors

A first order from a chain you weren't in. The engine finds the chains that fit your product and works them until a buyer says yes or no.

Reorders

The next order on an active account. A slipping account gets attention early, before it goes quiet.

Winbacks

A churned account back on the order sheet. Lapsed retailers get a real reason to look again. What's new, what's moving, what changed.

Restocks

An empty slot refilled in time. Gaps get flagged before they cost you shelf presence.

Yours.

Every account the engine opens

Every buyer, every reply, every relationship belongs to your brand. Focus Bar is infrastructure working under your name, not a middleman standing between you and your retailers.

If you leave, your retailer book exports with you. Every buyer, every account.
Every store, watched

Every store has a pulse. The engine never looks away.

One living record per store. What changed, what it means and what the engine does next. A store going quiet shows up here first, not in next quarter's numbers.

Cedar Lane Market Portland, OR
On cadence

Last order 12 days ago. Next reorder expected this week. The engine keeps the rhythm.

Harborline Goods Toronto, ON
New door, just opened

First order landed this week. The engine keeps the account warm so it doesn't stop at one.

Pine & Prairie Pantry Austin, TX
Going quiet

Order gap detected early. A winback is already queued, with a real reason to look again.

One record per store. No stitching tabs togetherNew doors, live accounts and lapsed ones on one boardEvery move the engine makes is logged on the account
Why an engine

Your retailer book shouldn't have a landlord.

A rep can hold a few dozen accounts in their head. An agency splits itself across every client. An engine holds every account, every day, and everything it builds stays with your brand.

Sales reps
Agencies
Focus Bar
Who owns the relationships
The rep holds the buyer relationships
Shared, depends on the contract
You. Every buyer, every reply, every account is yours
Your time
Ongoing management of the rep
Weekly calls, briefs, revisions
~15 min a week. Approve targets and messaging
Focus
Your brand competes on a line card with 20 others
Attention split across every client
An engine dedicated to your brand, working every account in parallel
Attention per account
The top ten accounts get the calls
Whoever shouted last
Every account, every day. No store is too small to get worked
Global

Wherever the shelves are.

Chains and independents, across markets and time zones. The engine doesn't have office hours or a home territory. If a store has shelves and a buyer for your category, it can be worked.

National chainsRegional chainsIndependentsSpecialty retail
Book a demo

See the engine run on your brand.

Bring your product and two or three chains you want in. We'll show you what the engine would build and run for them.