Pulse Beverage Corp. (PLSB)

Proven Experience

Pulse has assembled an outstanding management team of beverage industry executives that have successfully launched and/or managed the distribution for more than 25 major brands over the 20 years and have strong relationships with distributors and buyers who supply thousands of retail outlets, supermarkets, convenience stores and mass merchants.

Robert Yates - President and CEO
Mr. Yates is a seasoned business executive with experience in growing and managing businesses. Mr. Yates has been involved in the beverage industry for over 20 years. During this time, he generated approximately $50 million in annual sales and managed the most successful master licensee for Clearly Canadian Beverage Company through much of Canada and the U.S. His distribution portfolio included; Monster Energy Drink®, AriZona® Iced Tea, Rock Star Energy Drink®, Vitamin Water®, Perrier®, Everfresh® Juices, Ocean Spray®, Miller® Beer, Honest Tea® and Fiji® Water. He has been involved in all aspects of the beverage industry including: new product and label development, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.In addition, Mr. Yates successfully launched his own brand, Kwencher, which he built into a 2 million case brand in two years. Mr. Yates completed a management course at Ogelthorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, and has an associate’s degree in business administration from Highland Park College, in Highland Park, Michigan and completed a Professional Personnel Management Course with the US Air Force.

Ronald Kendrick - Chief of Product Development
Mr. Kendrick has been involved in the beverage industry for more than thirty years. Between 1989 and 1999 he served as VP of Operations and Product Development for Clearly Canadian Beverage Company where he managed both supply and logistical operations during a time when Clearly Canadian sales grew from zero to $180 million. Mr. Kendrick was instrumental in designing and developing new products and packages for Clearly Canadian, improving its marketing capabilities and lowering its production costs. Mr. Kendrick then founded Catalyst Development Inc. and has created products for a host of beverage companies including Baxter Healthcare where he played a pivotal role in the development of the Pulse® product line. Mr. Kendrick is the past President of the Canadian Bottled Water Association and a member of the Institute of Food Technologist, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the International Society of Beverage Technologies.

Parley (Paddy) Sheya - Director and National Sales Manager
Mr. Sheya brings over twenty-nine (29) years of international executive sales and distribution management experience in the beverage industry. He has a proven and successful track record in the development of brands and in building beverage brand sales and distribution systems from the ground up to multi-million case sales. A notable example includes leading Clearly Canadian® from nil to 4.8 million cases in less than 3 years as he administered 125 distributers and co-ordinated sales programs for all master distributers. He managed Kwencher® sales from nil to 1.7 million cases in less than 2 years along with bringing Blue Ox Energy Drink from nil to 850,000 cases and opening 122 distributors nationwide for what was then a new and unknown product. Mr. Sheya also managed a vast mix of beverage brands including: Jolt Cola®, Hires Root Beer®; Crush® Soda; Bubble-Up®; Country Time Lemonade®; Hansen’s Natural Sodas and Juices; New York Seltzer® and Evian Water®. Mr. Sheya, through Sheya Bros. Distributing, built a brand called Old San Francisco Seltzer which was the West’s answer to New York Seltzer. Sheya sold this brand to Cable Car Beverage Corp., owners of Stewarts Root Beer, a nationally recognized brand. During his career he has enjoyed excellent relations with major retailers such as Sam's, Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Walgreen's, CVS, Valero's, Public's, Win Dixie, Rainbow Foods, Safeway, Albertson's, 7-11, Circle K, Smith Foods, Kum-n-Go, Casey's, Sheetz, White Hens, Speedway, GNC, Conoco, Whole Foods, UNFI Rocky Mountain and West Coast, Sunflower Markets, Price Chopper Food Markets, Quik Trip and Vitamin Cottage and has further worked extensively with major distributors across the US as well as in Canada, Mexico, Ireland and the UK. Most recently he was the key account manager for New Leaf Brands, Inc. developing national sales for Inspiration Beverage and Bing Energy Drink. Mr. Sheya was educated at Eastern New Mexico University where he received a Bachelor of Science, Education with a Minor in Sociology. He was awarded an Athletic Scholarship (football) and Inducted into the ENMU Hall of Fame in 2005.

Based in vibrant Colorado, we’re committed to providing awesome tasting, healthy nutritional beverages. We know there’s so much to choose from these days in the beverage world, but believe we’re uniquely different by providing the absolute best in quality nutritional beverages, that are also good for your health. We aren’t one of the big beverage conglomerates dominating the supermarket shelves, but rather we excel at what we put in our beverages to benefit the human race, not the rat race. We’re middle-America committed to making a healthy difference in the beverage industry, while having fun living life healthy, active and large!

Mission

Our mission is to be one of the market leaders in the development and marketing of nutritional/functional beverage products that provide real health benefits to a significant segment of the population and are convenient and appealing to consumers. We have an experienced management team of beverage industry executives that have successfully launched and/or managed the distribution for more than twenty-five major brands over the past twenty years. They have strong relationships with distributors and buyers who supply thousands of retail outlets, supermarkets and convenience stores.

Products

Our initial commercial product is Natural Cabana® Lemonade. Our flagship product is PULSE® brand of functional/nutritional beverages (“PULSE®”) in three health platforms: PULSE® Heart Health Formula™, PULSE® Women’s Health Formula™, PULSE® Men’s Health Formula™. We presently manufacture, through co-packers, distribute and market both products.

In early 2011 we developed and then, in October, 2011, produced and distributed Natural Cabana® Lemonade. We launched Natural Cabana® Lemonade ahead of PULSE® in order to establish a comprehensive nationwide and international distribution system. Lemonades are widely considered to be an easily understood product as compared to a highly nutritional product such as PULSE® which requires more education at the distribution and retail level.

To ensure that the flavor profiles and nutritional platforms of our products meet the needs of consumers’ taste, health and life-style, we contract the services of Catalyst Development Inc. (“Catalyst”), a highly respected beverage product development firm located in Burnaby, BC, Canada. Catalyst developed the formulations for PULSE® under license, for Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Our product development team has ensured PULSE® is a lower calorie, great tasting functional /nutritional beverage that provides the benefits we claim on PULSE® labels. We use a hot-fill process of production to allow the PULSE® product to have all natural ingredients without the use of preservatives.