CLT bridges the gap between quality brands and our global alternative retail network with specialized inventory solutions.
Jack Wilkinson, President and CEO”
“Inventory represents the greatest asset on a company balance sheet.
CLT ’s fundamental value proposition is our established alternative retail network servicing over 80,000 doors worldwide, to which we have sold well over $1 Billion of assorted inventory.
As of 2020, our retail network accounts for nearly $1 Trillion USD in annual revenue and represents some of the highest sales per square foot among global retailers. This is one of the fastest and steadily growing retail segments globally.
This complex retail network requires a wide selection of SKU’s, mixed skids, shipments on a frequent basis, and customized labelling and packaging compliances.
CLT provides a direct link to this sophisticated marketplace for global companies that utilize our solutions, providing consistent, non-conflicting destinations for their brands.
CLT provides turnkey solutions for brands to help them meet the increasingly complex demands of the alternative retail segment. We have made significant investments over the years in our people, processes, infrastructure, logistics, and IT capabilities in order to consistently adapt and surpass expectations in this fast-changing global marketplace.
We specialize in the strategic placement of our partners’ inventories, utilizing our state-of-the-art packaging and logistics facility, and placing them into non-conflicting marketplaces in our global alternative retail network.
We are proud to be the supplier of choice for our retail partners, providing unmatched quality and value with our inventory mix and additional capabilities including:
Frequent shipments with wider assortment
Retail Packaging Innovations
Enhanced Brand Integrity
Quality Assurance
Effective In-House Marketing
International Logistics
Global Trade Compliance
Labelling and Packaging Requirements
Language Translation
Manufacturing Expertise
ENGINEERED OPPORTUNITIES
OPTIMIZING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT
TRADEMARK, COMPANY & FACILITY ACQUISITION
EXCESS & OBSOLETE INVENTORY MOVEMENT
CLT partners with select companies that have a desire to drive volume and increase brand growth through consumer trial, by producing pre-determined inventories for our global alternative retail network.
Benefits to our manufacturing partners are:
Preplanned, pre-built, agreed upon inventory of which CLT take full ownership
Access to CLT’s global alternative retail network of over 80,000 doors
Generation of healthy incremental profit and large volumes
Increased brand exposure and new consumer acquisition
Providing unique packaging and marketing innovations
CLT’s engineered opportunity solutions create an exclusive, seamless, and risk-free opportunities.
This opportunity is only available to manufacturers through a qualifying process conducted by CLT management.
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” Let us help you acquire new consumers in our alternative retail network.
Tom Tessier Executive Vice President Distribution & Manufacturing
CLT assists manufacturers with optimizing their manufacturing output.
Fueled by our large alternative retail network, we help small to large companies with scalable manufacturing capacity find volume opportunities, which is critical to them achieving full manufacturing yield and incremental profit.
CLT’s proposed manufacturing output solution helps manufacturers improve their economies of scale while lowering raw material costs, increasing revenue and profitability on a consistent basis.
In addition, our in-house marketing expertise assists manufacturers with the ability to elevate their overall product appeal while ensuring global compliance.
Jack Wilkinson President and CEO“ ” The key for any manufacturer is to keep the lines running consistently.
CLT has a strong history of acquiring legacy brands that may no longer be strategic for their current owners, including trademarks, companies, and manufacturing facilities.
Our acquisition history includes:
Unilever’s Salon Selectives™
Procter & Gamble’s Daily Defense®
Reckitt Benckiser’s Air Wick® solid gel air freshener factory
After brand revitalization success over a multi-year period within our global retail network, Salon Selectives™ and Daily Defense® were eventually divested in 2018.
The Air Wick® solid gel air freshener was rebranded as airall® and remains a successful product line within CLT’s branded offerings.
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” We welcome every opportunity to acquire global intellectual properties and company assets.Jordan Wilkinson Vice President, Global Purchasing
CLT specializes in the procurement and strategic placement of excess and obsolete inventories of global brands, private label brands, and control brands of health and beauty, and household cleaning products, along with other high demand categories.
CLT’s excess and obsolete inventory solutions provide brands with renewed inventory turn opportunities around the world and is a more environmentally responsible and profitable alternative to destruction. We work with brands to ensure the highest level of brand integrity and innovative consumer acquisition strategies.
CLT is the partner of choice for manufacturers and retailers to assist in the movement of finished goods, components, and raw materials.
“ ” Inventory turns are vital to a company’s financial health.
CLT touch over 30 million units per year, and through constant investments in our people, facility, machinery, and technical capability, we now offer our packaging and production services to manufacturers and retailers.
Equipped with a range of labelers, heat shrink machines, carton sealers, conveyers, and printers, the production facility can execute various labeling, packaging, and price stickering services. Our production facility has the capacity to label and package over 150,000 units per day.
PDQ’s
Salazar Head, Production & Manufacturing
Our mission is to create quality, efficiency, and retail ready packaging that attracts the consumer and optimizes sell through.
Eduardo
CLT is proud to offer a creative new solution utilizing its marketing and production teams with the ability and experience to offer brands the opportunity to present their products in an innovative Gift Set format and take advantage of a very large volume category.
CLT will work with all brand owners, store brands, and licensed brands to create a prestige product presentation for all gift giving opportunities.
A gift set will offer enhanced brand image, consumer acquisition, and additional promotional opportunities such as the inclusion of coupons.
The CLT team is prepared to discuss how brand manufacturers may take advantage of this revenue generating opportunity by:
Making Gift Sets for a brand owner or manufacturer to sell into their own trade channel.
Allowing CLT to make Gift Sets with expressed permission by a brand owner or manufacturer to sell into its large global alternative retail network.
James Tessier
Present your brand in a stunning Gift Set as a new vehicle for added consumer acquisition. “
CLT is a company fueled by people.
Our people are steadfast in their pride and loyalty for their company. Their individual expertise creates the collective excellence of CLT.
We each have the utmost respect and admiration for our team members, and this respect, to the benefit of our partners and customers, translates directly to our work.
Our values are simple and genuine; Respect, Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency
These values continue to be paramount to the success of CLT.
Since acquiring Reckitt Benckiser’s Air Wick® solid gel air freshener factory in 2015, CLT has successfully rebranded and relaunched the product line as airall® .
The brand is comprised of airall Classic, airall Natural Essential Oils, and specialized lines such as Festive and Scented Impressions.
Through continuous innovations and improvements, airall® is also the first brand to offer all-natural products in the solid gel air freshener category with medicinal essential oils aromatherapy benefits.
airall® is also the first North American solid gel air freshener brand to offer a private label program option to the retail market.
visit www.airallfresh.com to learn more.
From concept phase in early 2020, to store shelves in just five weeks, the ShieldPlex® brand was developed and placed into the marketplace in response to the need for a North-American made, premium quality, consumer affordable antibacterial and hydrating family of products.
Comprising of antibacterial Hand Washes, Hand Sanitizers, and Lotion, the ShieldPlex® line has seen an overwhelmingly positive response from retailers and consumers having sold millions of bottles.
With only the highest quality ingredients for optimal sanitization and hydration, ShieldPlex® puts your health in good hands.
visit www.shield-plex.com to learn more.
CLT ’s story, beginning in 1985, is one of constant innovation, investment in improvement, and a dedication to customer service. Over time, CLT has transitioned into a turnkey operation capable of providing unmatched solutions and products to our global partners and customers.
President & CEO Jack Wilkinson had no grandiose plans when he left his executive role at Duracell to start CLT. He recognized an opportunity that existed for branded companies to manage their inventory.
CLT started as a wholesale distribution company headquartered in the garage of his Toronto-based residence, where Jack and his small team managed full truckloads of product, much to the dismay of his wife and neighbours.
Jack considers himself blessed to have a longstanding team of senior management including Tom Tessier, Howard Linds, George Halley, as well as his sons Jordan and Jake, who have all propelled the growth of CLT since its inception.
Over the years, he and his team channeled all of their expertise in retail, wholesale, and manufacturing into what is now CLT’s specialized capabilities.
The pace of change in the global retail marketplace has never been faster than it is today.
Many consumers are shifting away from the traditional retail channels, driving tremendous growth for the alternative, value-based retailers.
Retailers and consumers are more demanding than ever, which creates great complexity in the retail industry, resulting in problem inventory, excess manufacturing capacity and even non-productive brand assets.
Over the past 35 years, CLT has become synonymous with bringing innovative, best in class solutions to help brands and retailers solve their biggest inventory challenges.
CLT’s vision is to develop and grow tangible value for global brands with business standards that are unmatched within our industry.
We have made continuous investments over the years in state-of-the-art IT, strategic acquisitions, infrastructure and processes, and most importantly our people.
With CLT’s expansive network of alternative retailers worldwide, we are well positioned to be the ideal partner for innovative brands and retailers alike.
Jack Wilkinson, President and CEO
