Supplier Services & Support
Grow your brand with KeHE
KeHE is committed to product innovation and is your resource to help make sure you’re ready for primetime. Your promotional strategy is a large part of your go-to-market plan and our experts can help guide you in those decisions. Retailers want deals; we’ll help you offer the right ones to help you profitably grow across multiple channels.
Our Category Management team is responsible for enterprise item assortment and act as the supplier’s main point of contact for support, promotions, and brand strategy.
National Reach
You’re ready to grow your brand beyond your regional reach, but how can you be smart with scaling? We have partnerships with the retailers you want to work with.
As a passionate brand owner, you can focus on your mission while we help you reach the retailers you want to get in to.
Robust Supplier Portal
Data makes the difference when you’re growing your brand.
We’re transparent with your product and sales data, along with easy to access digital tools allowing you to easily find your biggest opportunities and quickly lean into them. Login to KeHE CONNECT Supplier® today! First time logging in? We have training videos available to help you along the way.
In every way, KeHE Stands for Love™
In the way we forge partnerships with our suppliers to promote their products and ensure that they are connected to retailers in mutually beneficial business relationships. In the way we communicate and service our retail partners with a wide assortment of healthy and nutritious products that meet consumers’ ever-changing palettes, and provide advertising and marketing support to bring consumers into their stores. In the way we conduct our everyday business and manage our interactions with our partners to maintain a Food First approach in all we do.
Some of the 30,000+ Retailers We Service
Business as a force for good
Giving back to our communities is part of our DNA. From our founding in 1953 by Art Kehe, KeHE Distributors has always given back to help those in need. We donate a portion of our annual profits to a Foundation overseen by employees to make a difference domestically and abroad through employee-led volunteer opportunities. By partnering with KeHE, you become a partner of KeHE Cares®.
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New & Emerging Brands
How can KeHE ELEVATE® help you?As part of KeHE’s commitment to innovation and speed-to-market, KeHE’s ELEVATE program supports our retail partners by continually foraging for early-stage brands and curating a dynamic brand portfolio to augment their assortment. Brands in the program gain personalize assistance from KeHE to develop, reach their full potential, and better serve the demanding marketplace.
Grow Your Brand in our Network
Learn More!KeHE CONNECT Direct® helps you grow your business by shipping and selling products to more retailers than ever before. The program allows KeHE retailers and non-KeHE retailers to order products from KeHE’s Ellettsville and Chino facilities that may not be available through their traditional distribution channels. With KeHE CONNECT Direct, your product can go further; a SKU launch in the Ellettsville or Chino distribution centers is the equivalent of launching in five distribution centers.