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Buy the billboards. Keep the local brains.
Fusion Media Group, LLC built its outdoor-advertising strategy around a useful idea: give independent operators more capital, and keep the people who know the roads.
Owen Schiano’s big job starts with the small operator
From US Foods to American Tire Distributors, Owen Schiano has worked where large distribution networks meet independent businesses. At Navis Food Partners, he is back in foodservice, leading a platform that keeps local companies close to their customers.
Grocery Outlet
Grocery Outlet is an American extreme-value retailer that sells name-brand and private-label groceries at prices generally 40% to 70% below conventional supermarkets. Founded in 1946 in San Francisco, it built a flexible 'opportunistic buying' model that scoops up overstock, closeout, and out-of-spec products from suppliers and resells them through a network of locally run, independently operated stores. The treasure-hunt assortment changes constantly, and each store is run by entrepreneurial Independent Operators who split profits with the company and tailor shelves to their neighborhood.