Porter McKinnon
Bridgeport, CT (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
BP Pro
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Location:
Bridgeport
Industry:
Manufacturing
Year Founded:
2005
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
BP Pro manufactures and distributes novelty products to the Specialty, Convenience and Drug Store markets. We have experienced exponential growth over the past 3 years and are ready to take the products nationally.
We have a three tiered sales structure. Tier 1 is Wholesale Distribution. We currently distribute to C-Stores and Drug Stores mostly in the New England market and are expanding to the Southeast and Mid West now. We are currently registered suppliers for the 3 largest national distributors to the C-Store market (McLanes, Core-Mark and Eby-Brown) and are exploring way to exploit this opportunity. We also have national distribution in the Specialty Store market with 3 SKU's in Spencer Gifts, the Nations largest specialty chain.
Tier 2 is Retail Sales. We target our market directly thought our E-commerce store (URL removed) offering a verity of our items directly to the public.
Tier 3 is Licensing. We currently have license contracts with a variety of companies including a book deal with Chronicle Books to publish our book scheduled for release on July 29th 2009.