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Bonus: Finding the Right Freight Partners for your CPG Brand

The Startup CPG Podcast · 21 Feb 2022 · 24m

What this episode covers

Alex Cree, co-founder of Baozza, discusses the logistics of shipping frozen CPG products, highlighting challenges with LTL bookings, lost pallets, and rising costs. Host Jesse Frytag shares her own early mistakes with LTL terminology and emphasizes the value of using brokers and maintaining detailed rate logs. The conversation covers strategies for vetting freight partners, managing temperature-controlled supply chains, and leveraging distributor pickups to reduce operational burden.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

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Companies
Kahi, UNFI, Edison Green
Products
Baozza
Tools
FreightQuote

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