Blackhive

Blackhive Corporation, originally CrossWood Associates, Inc and Americas Commodity Corporation, is a global trading, sourcing and marketing company focused on the procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of commodity food ingredients and packaged food products. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Blackhive supplies sugar and liquid sucrose along with numerous other ingredients to food, beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies across the world. The organization has experienced consistent double digit growth since it's incorporation in 2006 through 2011, and currently has offices ranging from Mexico City, Mexico, to Shenzhen, China.
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Brands
Blackhive is home to four name brands that are exclusive to Blackhive customers. Their brands range from canned pineapples, peaches, to sugar, canned vegetables and tuna fish.
Private Label
One of Blackhive's fastest growing areas of business is private label. Blackhive maintains an office in China that handles all QC, procurement, logistics, and ensures customer orders are being handled properly. Domestically, Blackhive pulls rice and beans from mills around the United States and placed them into one central packing facility in an attempt to mitigate costs and offer competitive pricing for their corporate brands.
Services
Food Service
The Blackhive Food Service Team makes efforts to increase customer margins, reduce overall supply chain costs, and increase their market share year after year. The Blackhive Food Service sector handles procurement, label designs, production management, warehousing and distribution. Madison, Anne Elise and Emerald are a few of the labels Blackhive provides to their customers. The Food Service sector also develops and delivers private label programs.
Industrial
The Blackhive Industrial Team quickly emerged as a leader in the sugar and sweeteners industry in 2007. They supply white sugar and liquid sucrose along with numerous other ingredients to food, beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies across the United States.
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National Accounts
The Blackhive National Account Team was designed to bring restaurant chains and distributors closer to the growers and producers, thus allowing them to reduce supply chain costs and increase their margins.
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Retail
The Blackhive Retail team handles product sourcing, label design, warehousing and distribution. Blackhive markets their own brands and participate in private label programs. The retail team currently works with national and regional retailers across the world delivering high-quality, low-cost alternatives to national brands. Blackhive works with their distribution network along with their global purchasing offices to tailor customized solutions that align with their customers needs and corporate purpose.
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Logistics
Blackhive customer and supplier portfolio consists of some of the brightest minds in the business world. The logistics team works with each of them to create time critical and profit generating solutions. Born from these discussions is the Blackhive Logistics arm. Blackhive Logistics has created solutions to leverage freight for their customers and suppliers. These solutions offer alternative modes of transit thus thinning the supply chain and the associated costs.
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