Costco brokerage + retail growth

We help ambitious brands get into Costco — and stay there.

Former Costco buyers, operators and CPG builders who architect the product, pack, price, pitch and execution required to win at Costco.

We work with $1B+ in brands, from $5M challengers to $300M global producers.

A Rho Nutrition Liposomal Multi Peptide Daily bottle with drops of the liquid Three Thai Coco fruit pop boxes on a glossy blue surface
Rho Nutrition
Mateina yerba mate cans standing in beach sand Four Ardor Energy sparkling water cans raised against a blue sky
Mateina
Akasha Superfoods Pearl Powder jar held against a blue ocean sky Akasha Superfoods Glow and Grow gummy jars held up to the face
Akasha Superfoods
Safely dish soap, foaming hand soap and universal cleaner beside eucalyptus A Qualia NAD bottle with capsules and a glass of water
Safely
YumEarth organic Chewys, Giggles and Sour Littles packs on a striped towel by a pool Lumen sparkling protein cans in grape, peach and orange packed in a cooler of ice
YumEarth

The portfolio

Built for brands with somewhere bigger to go.

More than one billion dollars

in brands, across every category we sell

  • Health & Beauty
  • OTC
  • Food & Bev
  • Hardware
  • Sporting Goods
  • Housewares & Domestics
  • Lawn & Garden
  • Apparel
  • Major Electronics
  • Small Electrics
  • Jewelry
Two jars of Akasha Superfoods Glow held up outside a Costco Wholesale warehouse
Akasha Superfoods at Costco

Our edge

50+ years at Costco
Former Costco buyers and executives on our team
Retail sales experts
We sell into Costco every week, region by region
Founders + operators
We’ve built and run consumer brands ourselves
PE trained
We read your P&L the way an investor does
We build the tech
Dialed, the system every program runs on, is ours
One team
From strategy through reorder, nothing handed off

Why Costco

The hardest yes in retail.

About 4,000 items make it into a Costco warehouse. Every one of them earns its pallet, every week, or it is gone.

$275B+
in yearly sales
~4,000
items in a warehouse
84.1M
paid members
92.3%
US + Canada renewal

Every way in, run by us Rotations  Roadshows  Super demos  Costco.com  Global private label

More than a broker

We architect the entire retail program.

01 / Get in

Make the item buyer-ready.

Costco is an item business. Buyers want the best seller, the heavy hitter, not a brand’s whole line. We build that one item, its pack and its economics before the buyer ever sees it.

  • Hero item strategy
  • Pack architecture
  • Pallet, packaging + configuration
  • Price + margin
  • Creative built for the warehouse floor
  • Sell-in story + buyer positioning
A stack of five Prima Ancestral Protein Bar boxes in the sun
A Thai Coco Mango Coconut fruit pops box
TruHeight growth protein, sleep gummies and growth gummies

02 / Stay in

Turn placement into velocity.

The first PO is the start of the test. We run what happens after the yes so the item earns its reorder.

  • Supply chain + manufacturing
  • Demos + roadshows
  • Logistics
  • Sell-through
  • Reorders
Mateina yerba mate cans standing in beach sand
A raw steak on Good Ranchers branded paper with rosemary, salt and a basting brush
Safely Rise dish soap and universal cleaner on a sunlit counter with lemons and white flowers

03 / Scale

Turn one program into a growth engine.

One region becomes the case for the next. We grow the line, the creative and the retailers around what is working.

  • Regional expansion
  • Product innovation
  • Rebrands
  • Retail creative
  • Additional retailers
Four Ardor Energy sparkling water cans raised against a blue sky
YumEarth organic Giggles, organic Jellybeans and gluten free Gummy Bears snack-pack boxes with candy
The Prima wordmark on a protein bar box
Thai Coco crispy rolls, coconut water and coconut milk drink at a picnic on the grass
Akasha Superfoods Pearl Powder jar held up by the sea

How Costco buys

Costco doesn’t buy brands.
It buys items.

See every service
Chicken nuggets and ketchup bursting out of a Good Ranchers Chicken Nuggets bag

Consumer brands are our raw material.

We’re here for the change makers evolving and influencing a healthier culture. If we wouldn’t use it or give it to our families, we won’t sell it.

Why Volume

The brokerage team is also the operating team.

The people pitching your item are the same people pressure-testing the economics, packaging, operations and sell-through behind it.

  1. 01

    Buyer-side experience

    Former Costco buying leadership informs how we build and position programs.

  2. 02

    CPG operators

    We understand what happens after the yes.

  3. 03

    Creative inside the strategy

    Packaging and marketing are built around how the item needs to perform at Costco.

  4. 04

    Program visibility

    Clients see buyer activity, samples, programs, POs and next steps inside Dialed.

Powered by Dialed

Get dialed.
Sell volume.

The operating system for CPG operational excellence.

We run your entire Costco business in one place, so you never dig through your inbox again. Your team and ours work from the same live record.

See how Volume works
An item in Dialed with every Costco region's status: stage, next move and PO dollars
A brand's items in Dialed, with what the buyer said and what is in motion
  1. 01

    Status + updates

    Every buyer touch, sample and decision, live, the moment it happens.

  2. 02

    Program economics

    FOB, accruals and net per unit, built to protect your margin.

  3. 03

    Compliance + requirements

    Costco vendor setup and requirement resources, tracked to done.

  4. 04

    Sample management

    Every kit from request to shipped to buyer feedback.

  5. 05

    POs + invoicing

    Every PO by region and depot, every invoice tied to it.

  6. 06

    Pallet configuration

    Case pack, pallet build and configuration, buyer-ready.

  7. 07

    Call notes + tasks

    Every call written up, every next step owned and dated.

  8. 08

    Pearl on every page

    Ask anything about your business and get the answer from your record.

No other brokerage gives brands this level of detail, tools and support.

“Can’t tell you how great it is to work with you and Volume.”

Scott JamesCEO, Wicked Cutz
A Wicked Cutz Cinnabon bacon jerky pouch with a frosted cinnamon roll

Who you work with

You don't get handed to an account manager.

You work with the people building the strategy.

Category intelligence

We study the warehouse as closely as we sell into it.

Got a product that belongs at Costco?

Give us thirty minutes. We'll tell you what we'd change, what we'd pitch and where we'd start.