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Leaders in Convenience
Core-Mark International CORE-MARK is one of the largest
marketers of fresh, food and broad-line supply solutions to the convenience retail industry in North America. Founded in 1888, CoreMark, part of Performance Food Group’s family of companies, offers a full range of products, marketing programs and technology solutions in the U.S. and Canada. Core-Mark services traditional convenience stores, grocers, drug stores, mass merchants, liquor and specialty stores, and other stores that carry convenience products. MAJOR SERVICERS:
Fresh Foods, Foodservice, Product, Dairy Products, Fresh Bakery, Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Candy, Snacks, General Merchandise, Novelty Products, Snacks, Groceries, Tobacco Products, Health & Beauty Care and Automotive Products.
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CORE-MARK INTERNATIONAL
Our Mission Is “To be the most valued marketer of fresh, food and broad-line supply solutions to the Convenience Retail Industry.” To meet this expectation for our Customers, we have created the Core-Mark Center of Excellence. This state-of-the-art collaboration space aims at combining forward thinking consumer trends within food, category innovation, and technology, to take on our industry’s future. In addition to this, we offer various retailer programs and solutions designed to grow your business, make you more profitable, and create efficiency in your store! For more information, visit www. core-mark.com. We are Core-Mark, the leader in fresh solutions delivered to the convenience store industry.
CATEGORY INNOVATION AND FOCUSED MARKETING INITIATIVE
Core-Mark’s Focused Marketing Initiative™ was created to improve our Retailer’s sales and profits. Each customized plan includes neighborhood trends and demographics, current store data analytics, program recommendations, and industry trends. Once we understand a Retailer’s business goals, we leverage our distribution model, Vendor Consolidation Initiative (VCI), to optimize the Retailer and Supplier relationship. VCI will help generate sales increases with better gross profits while reducing costs via improved operational efficiencies.
FRESH
Our state-of-the art supply chain that features refrigerated docks and our fleet of tri-temperature trailers built specifically for delivery to convenience stores is part of our comprehensive platform and delivery model to enable the delivery of fresh foods to our customers. Whether it is grab-and-go or made-to-order, we offer a variety of products and programs that appeal to customers who are demanding convenient, healthier meal and snacking options such as salads, sandwiches, wraps and cut fruit with our exclusive partnership with Fresh & Ready.
FOODSERVICE
Convenience store foodservice options are continuing to evolve beyond the microwave. Today, more retailers are offering full-service programs, from pizza 20
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to fried chicken and other made-toorder concepts. Freshly prepared food that can satisfy any craving is becoming much more commonplace and we deliver with our turn-key food service program QuickEats. Along with food, customer preferences for dispensed beverage continues to evolve. With our fully branded turn-key dispensed beverage program, My Daily Crave, retailers can provide everything from frozen to hot beverage under a single branded program to meet their customers needs.
TECHNOLOGY
We offer a full array of industryleading, easy-to-use technology solutions designed to help grow and manage your business! Core-Mark’s strategic and exclusive partnership with PDI allows us to market loyalty and store operations products that will benefit independent, small and large retail chains! These products include loyalty programs and reporting, tobacco scan data, and PDI’s CStore Essentials, a cloud-based store operations software designed to improve operational efficiency. Our proven solutions also include CORE-SOURCE, a “one-stop-shop” streamlined solution containing the necessary tools to help support a successful partnership with Core-Mark. Within CORE-SOURCE, our customers have access to www. imarkportal.com, an online ordering platform that aligns with our mobile ordering applications (OrderPro – Apple; DroidPad – Samsung); Track My Order, a key tool that provides alert notifications to customers on the status of their deliveries; Retailer Analytics Dashboard application that leverages real-time, advanced data analytics to our customers; and (POD) Paperless Delivery that allows customers to view their delivery receipts online via the IMark Portal. As SKIP’s exclusive distributor partner in the wholesale channel, we bring a contactless mobile checkout solution that helps consumers feel safe in a COVID environment. cstoredecisions.com
