Case studies
Even potato chips can be surplus!
When a large FMCG manufacturer found themselves with 555 pallets of chips due to over forecast, they realised they had to look for a new solution for their excess stock. They already worked with a network of discount retail stores, but there were too many chips for their existing clients to purchase. The manufacturer realised that they had a problem, and registered on the Yume platform.
Within 48 hours of the chips being on the Yume marketplace, we had received enough orders to sell the stock twice over! We were able to return a profit to the supplier, while preventing the stock from going to waste. Everybody wins!
A Canadian staple stranded in Australia
A large manufacturer of dairy products imported over 46,000 kilos of premium, Canadian maple syrup, for a new product flavour they were developing. The company’s R&D team decided to delete the product line, however the stock was already on its way to the Australian shores. The manufacturer is not in the business of selling maple syrup, so they found themselves in a real pickle! With the only option being to send the stock back to Canada, the importer listed the maple syrup on the Yume platform in hopes of finding a local buyer.
Yume sold the entire consignment to local wholesalers, who repacked the 175kg barrels of maple syrup into 250g bottles, which worked perfectly for consumers in stores. By successfully finding a buyer for this stock, Yume was able to avoid a trans-pacific trip back to Canada for the maple syrup, saving the environment from being exposed to additional greenhouse gasses and preventing the stock from being wasted.
Pies for days!
An Australian manufacturer was left with hundreds of thousands of Angus Beef Pies, after a major international event, for which they were originally destined, was cancelled. The product was meant for export and weren’t packaged to meet Australian supermarkets’ specifications. The manufacturer was left with two choices: re-wrap all the pies so they could meet the domestic labeling standard or let the pies go to waste. Luckily, the supplier found their way to Yume!
Yume was keen to prevent this stock from going to waste, and thankfully the Yume team was able to sell more than 200,000 pies across the country to be used in commercial kitchens and in places where the label requirements where not an issue. We even sent some to our neighbors in New Zealand after working with the manufacturer to re-pack the pies to meet Kiwi label standards. We call that a win-win for everyone involved!
The tuna that didn’t have to go to waste
A national supermarket had decided to sell a new ready-made salad, which used premium yellowfin tuna packed into 50g, individual sachets. There was just one problem though, the product didn’t sell as well as expected and the supermarket decided to cancel the salad order. The tuna supplier had more than 27,000kg of tuna remaining - the equivalent of 500,000 individually wrapped sachets!
The supplier reached out to Yume in hopes of selling the tuna. Since the manufacturer was a family-owned business, they were already out of pocket and needed to recoup some of the funds. In the end, Yume found a sandwich manufacturer and an independent supermarket who purchased all the tuna and we were able to provide a return to the supplier - as well as preventing thousands of kilos of premium tuna from going to waste.
