About Scope Shelf
We launch brands. Starting with our own.
Scope Shelf is a Golden Scope Partners company, founded by Patrick Pilewski. Thirty years in business, foodservice and merchandising, now working for brands that want to get on the shelf and stay there.
The founder
He sat on both sides of the table.
Patrick Pilewski has spent more than 30 years in business, most of it in foodservice and merchandising. He learned the shelf the way most founders never get to: by putting his own product on it.
He founded 78 Brand, a non-GMO condiment line that debuted at the 2014 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. Today it sells through Walmart, Sysco, KeHE, UNFI and more than 2,500 retail doors. He owns The Brass Spoon, a Chicago restaurant, so he knows foodservice from the operator’s side too.
He has been the founder writing the check and the partner asked to make it pay off. Scope Shelf is what came out of that: the playbook that worked for his own brand, run for yours, with the price known before the work starts.
30+ years
In business, foodservice and merchandising
500+
Independent retailers
850
Foodservice operators
2,500+
Retail doors for our own brand, 78 Brand
Our mission
Put good products on shelves. Keep them there.
Most launches stall after the buyer says yes. We stay through the part that decides whether a product lasts: the store, the shopper and the reorder.
Research before spend.
We read your buyer, your channel and your market first. A plan that skips the market read wastes the budget behind it.
The price, up front.
You see the plan, the cost and the goal before anything runs. No six-month lock-in to find out if it works.
Report what moves revenue.
Placements, reorders, buyer meetings, sell-through. If a channel isn't producing, we say so and change it.
Distribution partner
In partnership with Eagle Distributors.
Eagle Distributors is a food distribution company carrying 1,000+ SKUs, including exclusive brands like Tymbark, Kubuś and Cracovia, alongside European and world favorites.
For a Scope Shelf brand, that partnership is the step after the first stores say yes. Retailers can order your product from a distributor they already buy from, and our own warehouse keeps it close to the shelf.
On the floor
We work the booth ourselves.
Have a product ready for the shelf?
Tell us what you make and where you want it. You get a straight read on the fit and the price.