# Acosta Group

> Acosta Group is a privately held Jacksonville company that performs the unglamorous, high-stakes work between a consumer brand's plan and a shopper's basket. Through specialist agencies including Acosta, ActionLink, ADW, CORE Foodservice, CROSSMARK, Mosaic, Premium Retail Services and Product Connections, it sells into retailer headquarters, resets and audits shelves, runs sampling and assisted-selling programs, manages digital product pages and retail media, and turns shopper and store data into commercial decisions. Its customers range from emerging brands to more than 130 billion-dollar brands, plus retailers and foodservice operators; its advantage is the combination of retailer relationships, a large field workforce and analytics under one coordinated group.

- **Founded:** 1927
- **Headquarters:** Jacksonville, United States
- **Founders:** Louis "L.T." Acosta (Founder)
- **Team size:** More than 58,000 associates as of August 2026; the group reported more than 60,000 immediately after its July 2024 acquisitions.
- **Products:** Headquarters Sales Services, Retail Execution, Connected Commerce, Assisted Sales and Training, Integrated Marketing
- **Notable:** Expanded from a single-market Jacksonville food broker founded in 1927 to an international agency collective., Became a national agency in 1999 after Acosta Sales Co., PMI-Eisenhart, Kelley-Clarke and The MAI Companies combined., Launched the Acosta Group enterprise brand in 2023 to unify access to its agency portfolio.

## Products & services

- **Headquarters Sales Services** — Retailer selling, joint business planning, category and space management, revenue growth management, trade-fund administration and back-office support.
- **Retail Execution** — Large-scale merchandising, shelf resets, audits, display installation, compliance work and store-level reporting through specialist field teams.
- **Connected Commerce** — Omnichannel account management, digital shelf management, full-service Amazon support, retail media, shopper marketing and ecommerce analytics.
- **Assisted Sales and Training** — Trained representatives who demonstrate complex products, educate retail staff and help shoppers make purchase decisions.
- **Integrated Marketing** — Shopper, experiential, performance-media, creative, content and brand-activation programs led largely through Mosaic and related agencies.
- **Foodservice** — Sales enablement, culinary strategy, menu innovation and operator and distributor access through CORE Foodservice and specialty teams.
- **Data and Business Intelligence** — Shopper research, shelf intelligence, space automation, supply-chain analytics, revenue-growth strategy, TradeSense promotion optimization and exACT measurement tools.
- **Global Business Services** — Shared operational and back-office capabilities that support brand growth and improve administrative efficiency.

## Achievements

- Expanded from a single-market Jacksonville food broker founded in 1927 to an international agency collective.
- Became a national agency in 1999 after Acosta Sales Co., PMI-Eisenhart, Kelley-Clarke and The MAI Companies combined.
- Launched the Acosta Group enterprise brand in 2023 to unify access to its agency portfolio.
- Acquired CROSSMARK and Product Connections in July 2024, taking the group above 60,000 associates and 3,000 clients at closing.
- Acquired Dee Set in September 2024 to expand Acosta Europe's UK retail and field-marketing coverage.
- Named Syndigo Digital Partner of the Year in both 2024 and 2025.
- Reached $102 million raised over 40 years with the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 2025.
- Won three 2026 Stevie Awards for Great Employers, including Gold for Employer of the Year - Diversified Services.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Won three Stevie Awards for Great Employers, recognizing the company, its Leadership Development Program and its ORBIT rotation program.
- **2026-08** — Detailed a business-intelligence stack spanning a 40,000-member shopper community, AI shelf intelligence, space automation, TradeSense promotion optimization, exACT measurement and supply-chain analytics.
- **2026-07** — Published its first Affordability Tracker, finding that grocery purchasing power had improved since 2023 while inflation-era value-seeking habits persisted.
- **2026-07** — Named former Kellanova executive Joe Mueller to the newly created role of Chief Retailer Partnerships Officer.
- **2026-01** — Formed an alliance with CommerceIQ to make Connected Commerce one of the industry's early AI-driven agency teams.
- **2025-12** — Marked $102 million raised during a 40-year partnership with the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
- **2024-09** — Acosta Europe acquired UK field-sales and merchandising provider Dee Set Group.
- **2024-07** — Completed the acquisition of CROSSMARK and Product Connections from WIS International.

## Links

- Website: https://www.acosta.group/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acostagrp/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acostagroup_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acostagrp

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Last updated: 2026-08-14