# SCHIED

> SCHIED is a privately held Westlake Village marketing agency that specializes in the awkward middle of the food business: helping manufacturers and commodity groups explain products to distributors, operators, retailers and consumers. Alongside strategy, branding, advertising, PR and web work, its Retrievers Suite turns product, distribution and training data into searchable digital guides, locators and an AI chatbot.

- **Founded:** 1997
- **Headquarters:** Westlake Village, United States
- **Founders:** Stephen Louis Schiedermayer (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** 17 employees reported in supplied company data; LinkedIn lists a range of 11-50.
- **Products:** Strategy and brand development, Integrated marketing, Custom digital solutions, DPG Digital Product Guide, DLU Foodservice Product Locator
- **Notable:** AlaskaSeafood.org won the Web Marketing Association's 2012 Best Advertising Integrated Ad Campaign award; the credited entry names Schiedermayer & Associates and Joe Shoemaker., A fiscal-year 2014 Alaska Seafood consumer PR report attributed $11.27 million in measured media value and 868.1 million audience exposure to the program presented by Schiedermayer Alaska., The firm has maintained a specialized food-industry practice for more than two decades and says its digital-solutions focus dates to 2014.

## Products & services

- **Strategy and brand development** — Business-unit strategy, competitive positioning, brand strategy and brand development for food-industry organizations.
- **Integrated marketing** — Social and digital marketing, traditional advertising, public relations and sales materials.
- **Custom digital solutions** — Web design, user experience, mobile applications, online training platforms, and CRM customization and integration.
- **DPG Digital Product Guide** — A searchable, auto-fed product brochure that can filter by product, distributor, brand, GPO or a client's own criteria.
- **DLU Foodservice Product Locator** — A postal-code and distributor lookup that shows which products are stocked locally in the United States or Canada.
- **Foodservice AI Chatbot** — A mobile-friendly, voice-activated knowledge interface for training, preparation, product information, terminology and company information.
- **Account support and services** — Project management, media campaign and production management, plus data monitoring and analysis.

## Achievements

- AlaskaSeafood.org won the Web Marketing Association's 2012 Best Advertising Integrated Ad Campaign award; the credited entry names Schiedermayer & Associates and Joe Shoemaker.
- A fiscal-year 2014 Alaska Seafood consumer PR report attributed $11.27 million in measured media value and 868.1 million audience exposure to the program presented by Schiedermayer Alaska.
- The firm has maintained a specialized food-industry practice for more than two decades and says its digital-solutions focus dates to 2014.
- Retrievers Suite publishes working demonstrations for a digital product guide, distributor locator and foodservice AI chatbot.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — The ResersConnect+ Android app was updated with a new Sales Materials tile and a revised POS ordering link.
- **2025-07** — Retrievers Suite public materials presented three working product demos: DPG, DLU and a foodservice AI chatbot.
- **2025-04** — SCHIED's current website presented the agency around food-industry marketing and sales tools, with Retrievers Suite as the featured proprietary offer.

## Links

- Website: https://schied.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/schied

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Last updated: 2026-09-14