Prior to founding GT Performance Group, Gary Trout worked for twelve years at the Kroger corporation. Kroger is the leading grocery retailer in the US, with 80 billion dollars in sales and operating over 3600 stores nationwide. At Kroger, Gary was most recently a director in the HBC and GM departments, for which he was responsible for the origination and execution of marketing, sales and corporate strategy.
Founded in 1988 by Gary Trout, the GT Performance Group has established itself as a respected, quality-conscious, service-driven organization committed to producing measurable results. Gary Trout & GT Performance Group has established relationships with all class of trades from national drug chains and wholesalers to mass merchandisers/club stores, grocery chains, food wholesalers, convenience stores and distributors and specialty stores, representing a total of more than 100,000 retail points of purchase throughout the USA.
As a full-service consumer product brokerage firm, the Company expertly provides a variety of professional sales and marketing services to the retail and wholesale trades. Over 22 years, the company has earned a reputation for producing maximum sales results and providing outstanding services to both our manufacturing principals and retail accounts, and has successfully generated millions of additional sales dollars for representative manufacturing companies. The company markets and sells to thousands of major retail and wholesale outlets and establishments, representing many leading consumer product manufacturers and their products, and has received numerous honors for exceptional sales performance and marketing success.
Services We Offer
We can manage all aspects of your product distribution using our extensive contacts in retail and distribution across North America. We will
push your products into distributors and retailers across the country. With your support, in addition to gaining distribution, we can handle all of your marketing needs by developing a comprehensive plan to maximize exposure, creating consumer awareness of your brand.
This 1-2 punch of distribution, driven by our elaborate retail level marketing campaign, will give you a great rollout with extensive ROI in the future.
We also offer
Support to all sales and administrative staff
- 24/7 availability to all parties with sales and administrative needs
- Documentation and sending of sample orders to potential clients
- Sending of Point-of-Sale material to potential and existing clients
- Management of all sales documents
- Drafting and revising of distributor agreements
- Maintaining sales opportunities spreadsheets
- Promotional Support for Distributors and Retailers
- Marketing support and management of sales leads in new market areas
- Setting up and administrating EDI (Electronic data interchange) services
- Assisting you in setting US/North American product pricing structure
- Assisting/Administrating product logistics and transportation in North America
Additional Services available as well, please Contact Us for more information
