What happens when you build a retail store inside a trade show? We’re about to find out. Booth 1001 This year at CHFA NOW Toronto, Hive and CHFA are building Move & Thrive: A 30 x 80 retail experience with real endcaps, shippers, fridges and displays. Why go through all that trouble? Because most trade show conversations happen while a product is sitting neatly on a table. But a product’s real test begins when it has to earn a place in a store. At Move & Thrive, the brands making the products, the retailers deciding what belongs on the shelf and the teams who have to make it work can all stand in front of the same display and talk about something real. That’s the part we’re excited about. If you’re coming to CHFA NOW Toronto, come find Team Hive at Move & Thrive. Bring us a product. Let’s talk about where else it could belong. Canadian Health Food Association #CHFANOW #RetailMerchandising #CPGCanada
Hive Retail Solutions
Food and Beverage Services
Vancouver , BC 4,763 followers
Hive, is a female-founded retail sales & merchandising agency helping brands grow on shelf and in-store across Canada
About us
Hive is a Canadian, female-founded sales and merchandising agency specializing in growing food and beverage brands across both conventional and specialty retail channels. With store visits conducted each month coast to coast, our experienced team provides on-the-ground support—building strong retailer relationships, identifying opportunities, and executing strategies that drive sales and visibility at the shelf. We are your in-store partners, helping create impact where it matters most: at the point of purchase. Let us help create the in-store buzz for your brand 🐝
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http://www.hivenaturals.ca
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- Food and Beverage Services
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Vancouver , BC
- Type
- Self-Owned
- Founded
- 2021
- Specialties
- Merchandising, Brand Building, Customer Service, and Natural Food & Beverage
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If you’re going to CHFA NOW Toronto, come join me for this one. 👀🔥 On September 25th, I’ll be stepping away from building the displays and actually talking about why we build them the way we do. I’m excited to be joining an incredible panel for The Power of Merchandising, where we’ll be talking about what actually makes a shopper stop, look and ultimately buy. For me, merchandising has never been about simply putting more product on the floor. It’s about creating something people can’t walk past without noticing. Big displays. Floor graphics. Theatre. Simplicity. Execution. And most importantly — does it actually move product? I’m looking forward to sharing some of what I’ve learned along the way — and hearing the perspectives of some incredible people in our industry. 📍 CHFA NOW Toronto – Exhibition Place 📅 Friday, September 25th ⏰ 10:15–11:15 AM If you’re attending CHFA NOW, I’d love to see you in the room. And please come say hello afterwards! Who’s going to be there? 🙋♂️ #CHFANOW #Merchandising #Retail #CPG #GroceryRetail Longo's Hive Retail Solutions Amanda Kenny Canadian Health Food Association Grocery Business Magazine Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers
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The best person to run your Costco roadshow is the one person who cannot. The founder. You’ll agree: nobody knows the product better. Nobody can explain why it exists faster. Guess what? That same person does not have 13+ days to spend behind one Costco table. The rest of the company does not stop while you are gone. That is the strange problem hidden inside a roadshow. You need the best road show team That team is Hive 🐝 We are planning for 2027, and we want to know....
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That in-store display you’re proud of could win you a trophy and bragging rights at CHFA NOW Toronto. 🏆 Hive Retail Solutions and CHFA are looking for the best displays built by retailers attending CHFA NOW Toronto. There are 2 ways to win: 🐝 Best Large Display Endcaps, power aisles, shippers and other major builds. 🐝 Best Small Display Dump bins, clip strips, counter displays, speed-bump tables and other compact builds. Submit 1 photo of a real display that is currently or was recently live in your store. The Hive team will create the shortlist before a joint Hive and CHFA panel selects 1 winner from each category. The contest is open to all CHFA NOW Toronto attendees. CHFA membership is not required, and each attendee may submit 1 entry. Entries close September 22, 2026. The trophies and the bragging rights will be presented at the Hive booth on Sunday at 12:30 PM. Winners must be there to accept their award. Enter here: https://lnkd.in/gsZ4VHcG #CHFANOW #RetailMerchandising #VisualMerchandising
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Every brand wants the endcap. Hive asks a less exciting question first: Can a shopper find you on your regular shelf? Because the display can be beautiful while the product underneath it is still not retail ready. The tag is missing. The price is wrong. The case is sitting in the back room. The system says “in stock,” but the shopper sees an empty shelf. That is why retail readiness comes before the big moment. Hive’s continuity teams return to the same stores, build relationships with the store teams, pull inventory forward, correct the shelf, and report what is actually happening. Once that foundation works, the blitz can do its job. Launch the product. Build the holiday display. Create a second place for shoppers to find it. A blitz creates the moment. Continuity makes the product buyable before, during, and after it. Hive does both. But we do them in the order that gives your brand the best chance to keep selling after the display comes down.
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Ready to build, sell and scale your brand? We’ve got sessions for that. At the CHFA NOW Toronto Conference, this September 25th, industry experts are bringing practical insights to help you strengthen partnerships, stand out in market, connect with consumers and unlock your next stage of growth. 🤝 Innovation Ready: Preparing for High-Impact Product Partnerships with Michelle Kienitz Henderson and Candace Mascarenhas (Rambert) 🛒 The Power of Merchandising with Amanda Kenny, Brenda Kirk and Charles Buhagiar 📈 Scaling to World Class: Actions That Unlock the Next Stage of Growth with Mike Fata 💬 Stories That Sell: How Storytelling Builds Communities That Buy with Trevor S. Walk away with ideas you can put into action whether you’re building your brand, expanding your reach or preparing to scale. 🎟️ Conference Passes start at $100 — CHFA Members get it for FREE! 📅 Advance registration ends September 3. Explore the full Conference lineup on the CHFA NOW website: https://ow.ly/1xM450ZAFZQ A big thank you to our Conference Title Sponsor, MNP #CHFANOW #CPG #BusinessGrowth #NaturalHealth #OrganicProducts #Retail
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Imagine paying tens of thousands of dollars for a billboard campaign The invoice arrives. The campaign report says it is live. There is only one minor complication: Somebody forgot to put up the billboards 🤷🏻♀️ You would probably want more than a photograph of the empty poles. Yet brands experience the retail version of this all the time. They pay for endcaps across a grocery banner. Head office approves the promotion. The calendar says it has started. Then Hive visits the stores and discovers that some of the displays do not exist. A photograph confirms the disappearance. Now we have to solve the mystery. Did the store know about the promotion? Was additional inventory ordered? Did the product arrive? Was the space given to another brand while everyone was waiting? The answer matters. It can help the brand recover its money, receive another promotional window, or get the display built before the campaign ends. Hive is not hired to stand solemnly beside an empty shelf and take a beautiful photograph of it. Our team speaks with the store, finds out what happened, and works on the next move. If you paid for the billboard, you should not have to wonder whether somebody put it up. Have a retail promotion coming? Bring Hive Retail Solutions in before the calendar says it has already started 📆
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The chocolate aisle answers one question: Where is the chocolate? Great merchandising answers a better one: Why would I want chocolate right now? To put that idea to the test, we handed Scott Sulz from CHFA and Team Hive a bag of Chocxo Chocolatier and asked one question: Where can you merchandise this? Every answer changes the buying moment. Place it in the chocolate aisle and it meets the shopper who is already looking for chocolate. Place it beside something that goes with it and it can reach someone who had not thought about chocolate until the pairing made sense. Same product. A new reason to notice it. A new reason to add it to the basket. Most brands work incredibly hard to earn one place on the shelf. But a product can be perfectly stocked and still be waiting in one place for one kind of shopper. That is why merchandising matters. At CHFA NOW Toronto, Team Hive will be moving through the show, talking with retailers and helping brands see the buying moments their products could belong to once they leave the booth and enter a store. Bringing a product to Canadian Health Food Association? Email chfa@hiveretailsolutions.com. We’ll help you think beyond the booth and beyond the first shelf.
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Let’s play CHFA on hard mode 💥 You have two people, two days, and four jobs. Keep the booth open. Explain the product properly. Find the retailers you came to meet. Record enough of each conversation to make Monday’s follow-up useful. Pick two. You cannot, obviously. That is the problem. Most teams try to do all four, which means every new conversation pulls someone away from something else. Scott Sulz from CHFA described getting into the show as the pre-game. The real game is creating the right connections and doing something with them afterwards. That is where Hive’s roaming sampling team fits. At CHFA, Hive is the only team permitted to roam the aisles with samples. Before the show, we learn which retailers matter to you, what they need to understand, and where an interested person should go next. During the show, we take on the discovery job while your team keeps the booth and its conversations moving. You still have four jobs. Now you have more people helping you do them. Hive’s roaming sampling program is open for booking through August 12th To add Team Hive to your CHFA plan, email chfa@hiveretailsolutions.com or send us a DM. Brittany Kroetsch Doran Murphy Canadian Health Food Association
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You can't walk every aisle your product sits in. But your customer does. They see what's on the shelf. The price. The placement. Whether you are on shelf. Hive Retail Solutions team is coast to coast making sure your brand shows up the way it should. Every store. Every city 🐝 🗺️ Even the ones you can't get to. #team #roadwarriors #retail