Winning Brands Corporation (WNBD)

[lbdave]

I'm not littlefeet, but I'll take a stab at it. It seems the relationship hasn't advanced to a level of sharing sales numbers with WNBD at this point, so WNBD can't comment on whether or not they are re-stocking shelves at the store level, but they do know they have placed an order to re-stock Spartan's wharehouse. So, I would say the comments made in October are correct, and WNBD shipped products to re-stock the warehouse. It really isn't that hard to understand.

Each retailer makes different information available to us about sell-through. It takes time in some instances to earn the trust of the retail partner to receive this information. Some others have the culture and mechanisms that allows vendors to determine this exactly. In the case of Spartan, the participating stores are not all corporately owned, but rather in a wholesale supply relationship. Thus, we do not yet have the means to distinguish between “re-stocking” activity and initial fill being made from our shipments. This may evolve as the account operations evolve.