President
Jersey City, New Jersey, Us
Nuts.com is an online retailer selling more than 4,000 products. Nuts.com's sister company, Kopper's Chocolate, is a manufacturer and multi-channel retailer of panned and enrobed chocolates as well as liquid center cordials. Nuts.com sells to both businesses and individuals. Kopper's has a B2B focus.At Nuts.com I ran: the full supply chain (from sourcing, warehousing and fulfillment, logistics and customer experience), food safety and quality, facilities and engineering, legal, merchandising, inside and outside sales, back-end software development and special projects (real estate, retail and more). Nuts.com runs its own warehouses and customer service organizations. The company also writes nearly all of the software that powers the business (front and back end) including a custom WMS, ERP, etc.From 2016-2018 we: acquired and merged two companies (including one in Europe), made manufacturing a core competency (previously was a retailer only), grew from one to four fulfillment centers enabling the company to deliver to nearly 75% of the US population next day, worked to become SQF level 2 certified, built an inside and outside sales team from scratch, started a retail team with a location in Union Square, moved the headquarters into one of the coolest offices in the country, launched free shipping to Canada and we never lost a game in our Zog Sports softball league.