| HEALTHCARE, FOOD, BEVERAGE & NUTRICEUTICAL BROKERAGE Everest Associates is a brokerage company established in 2001 to serve manufacturers of high quality OTC health and beauty aids [HB&A], foods, and beverages that desire to have their products sold in national, regional and local chains of supermarkets, drug stores and mass merchandisers throughout the United States and Canada. Our customer base also includes foodservice distributors, schools, vending machine operators, convenience stores, the military, transportation services, pharmacies, and health food stores. Through our affiliate, Horizon Marketing Group, we have long-standing relationships with the appropriate distributors for each product marketed. Our south Florida headquarters has ready access to Miami (gateway to Latin America & Europe), Ft. Lauderdale, & Palm Beach International airports, and our Trabuco Canyon affiliate is conveniently located between Los Angeles and San Diego, with ready access to Los Angeles (gateway to Australia & Asia), San Diego, John Wayne Orange County and Ontario airports. We have established partnerships with other groups to be able to give our principals coverage throughout the United States and Canada. The manufacturers/vendors we serve are listed on the next page. References will be supplied upon request. Everest Associates is managed and operated by its principals. Its principals deal with its client manufacturers and also with the customers that purchase from the manufacturers. Operating activities are not delegated to junior personnel. All parties deal directly with the principals. Elliott Block, CEO of Everest Associates, has over 35 years international operational and marketing business experience with multinational and entrepreneurial companies in the US and Canada selling HB&A throughout the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia to the OTC and the professional markets. Gary Drezin, Principal and Owner of Horizon Marketing Group, an affiliate of Everest Associates, is a graduate of New York University. He has over 35 years business experience as an owner/operator of an electronics manufacturer and an electronic parts brokerage, and since 1994 the owner and principal of Horizon, brokering food, beverages and OTC HB&A. |
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