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Experience. Confidence. Trust. A plan for today, and a vision for tomorrow. The expertise, relationships, and enthusiasm to help you meet the daunting challenges of the marketplace. Here’s where we’ve been, where we’re going, how we work, and who we are. Welcome to the Killian experience!

We offer a full complement of services to help you achieve your specific goals. Packaging and point of purchase assistance. Competitive product analysis. Logistics solutions. Product sourcing and private label opportunities. Vendor compliance, consulting, and more. It’s all a part of the Killian service commitment. We are here to help you in every way we can. Our many years of experience working with major national retailers like Home Depot, DirectBuy, Lowe’s and Menards has provided us with a tremendous working knowledge of the key elements for success in selling to mass merchants and specialty retailers in the United States.

Those smaller businesses without the marketing and design infrastructure of the larger manufacturers will gain valuable insight from Killian, shortening the path to success. We can help not only with margin advertising and promotional costs and other program variables, but with packaging design and security issues, point-of-purchase displays, rebate opportunities and costs, category management, and a host of other issues.

We have developed relationships with a broad network of Chinese and Indian manufacturers in virtually every category to help our vendors source new products and potentially procure lower pricing on existing products. We have established working relationships with logistics and operations companies that can provide our vendors solutions for warehousing and distribution issues, drop-ship programs, warranties and return processing, disposition of overstock and returned goods, tech support and toll-free service lines, in-store merchandising and product demonstrations…solutions to practically any problem that must be solved to allow your company to compete in the fast lane. It’s all part of the Killian experience.

Your company has the ability to place its product across the entire United States when you join the Killian team! Our largest accounts combined have over 6,000 stores throughout the United States, and some continue to grow by 10% every year. DirectBuy, Home Depot, Menards, and Lowe’s are just a few of the retailers where Killian has built long term relationships and businesses. With our affiliation with strong organizations throughout the country, we can help you meet your sales goals in virtually every market, with every major retailer in the U.S.

With the relationships we’ve forged with American, Chinese and Indian manufacturers and trade organizations, Killian has achieved global reach. Today, we can offer our domestic vendors OEM partnerships and product sourcing in almost any category. Tomorrow, we hope to be able to offer Chinese and Indian markets to interested American companies as well. Our retail partners are striving to meet profit goals just as we are, and lowering their operating costs has become a major focal point.

While vendor compliance may not be a profit center, it has definitely assumed a major role in helping retailers achieve their financial numbers. It is absolutely essential that a vendor know and abide by all the guidelines if it wants to maintain a profitable relationship. Failure to comply with these guidelines for set-up forms, carton labeling, case-pack sizes, UPC coding, preferred carriers, shipping and receiving deadlines, and myriad other rules and regulations can result in not only the loss of profits but the collapse of an entire business relationship.

Because this segment of the total business equation has taken on such a large dimension, Killian has established a separate department to help our vendors meet all the obligations and avoid expensive non-compliance penalties. Very few, if any, rep firms have a dedicated Vendor Compliance Department. It’s just another way Killian stays on the leading edge of sales and service for its important vendors.