pricing
What would be a fair price selling gallons to a cafe or retail business? I am in a major metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and can command fairly high prices as compared to rural areas.
How to price by case lots and gallons. Wholesale.
I have been drumming up business for 2012. What kind of wholesale price do you figure on bottles 8 oz. and pints when selling 12 bottles at a time?
Woodsman
Last edited by lastwoodsman; 12-04-2011 at 10:53 AM.
Scarlet Jewell Sugar Shack LLC
Sandstone, MN 55072
16 x 24 sugar shack
crescendo auto drawoff,
Home built ro with a Dow xle 4040 membrane.
1 1/2 hp motor on 220 drawing 8 amps
Gravity feed
300 taps on vacuum
2 x 6 Smokey Lake Corsair arch with blower and pans and preheater
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If I sold to outlets for resale (which I don't) I would likely give 20% discount from my normal retail.
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
I am 25% off of retail. They can mark it up however much they want.
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
It depends what you can work out with them. I would start higher and see what you can negotiate. I have 2 smaller accounts and 1 is 10% and the other 15% now by small I am talking $200 worth of syrup based on $53 gallons with the usual % pricing structure per container. But I told them thats was what I wanted and if they can move more product then I will take more percentage off the retail. for me its a direct resale so they can price it how ever they want.
may your sap be at 3%
Brad
www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
MES horizontal electric releaser
2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
300gph H2O RO
husquvarna 562 XP
Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!
I am up here by Bemidji, MN and supply a couple of outlets.... my retail price in 8 or 12 oz bottles is $1 an ounce. When the local outlets buy by the case from me, I give 10% on a case of 12 or 15% on larger orders. I have seen where one place marks it back up to my normal retail price and others actually mark it up more. They still sell out right away..... I am more than happy to keep expanding every year
2009 12 taps - think I see if I can make syrup
2016 350 taps - I've turned into the Mad Sapper!
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