PMA has it covered cooperatively!
Peer Marketing Associates, Inc. (PMA).
Organized November 1, 1991, PMA is a national bargaining cooperative owned by 95 convenience distributor companies. At the end of 2020, PMA’s distributor network totaled 268 distribution centers servicing 165,654 retail outlets. Included in this total are 85,017 low volume single store operators. PMA’s sales personnel is estimated to be 1200 people.
Our convenience distributors quickly and efficiently move FMCGs (fast moving consumer goods) to their retail customers. In 2020, PMA members purchased more than $473 MM of product from PMA preferred suppliers.
"We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately." - Ben Franklin, founder of the first American cooperative -The Philadelphia Contributionship