Concepts Food Group, Inc., was founded late in 2008 after we discovered that there were many smaller, independent producers of excellent products who wanted help to market and sell their lines. Some had developed superb products that won rave reviews, but needed assistance to start marketing and selling them. Others already had sales organizations and processes in place, but were looking for help to expand into our geographic market. Because they were smaller or newer, several had been rebuffed by, or had bad experiences with, the larger brokerage houses, which tended to concentrate more heavily on their larger corporate accounts.