Buy Like a National Brand
One of the biggest challenges for independent cottage food businesses is purchasing power.
When you’re buying ingredients, packaging, labels, and supplies in small quantities, you often pay the highest prices. Those higher costs reduce your margins and make it harder to compete.
At Un-Factory Foods, we purchase many ingredients and packaging materials in bulk for our nationwide network of makers.
By combining the purchasing power of hundreds—and eventually thousands—of local makers, we can negotiate better pricing from suppliers and pass those savings directly on to our makers.
That means you can often access premium ingredients and professional packaging at prices that are difficult to achieve on your own.
It’s one of the advantages of being part of a national network while still operating as a local maker.