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A cold email landed Back to the Roots in 850 Home Depots

Nikhil Arora · How to Get Your Product in 10,000 Retail Stores - Hustle Con 2015 · May 13, 2015 · at 10:19

Nikhil Arora, co-founder of Back to the Roots, explains at Hustle Con 2015 how cold emailing a regional buyer led to a national retail distribution agreement with Home Depot.

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“And actually, just this week, we're excited to announce that Home Depot expanded this nationally into 850 stores nationwide with displays across the country, but that started off with a cold email.”

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Home Depot expanded Back to the Roots products nationally into 850 stores across the United States.

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Assessment

Available public records from May 2015 neither confirm nor refute the specific figure of 850 Home Depot stores. An official Back to the Roots announcement on April 24, 2015, noted an expansion into 'an additional 600 stores' at The Home Depot for spring 2015, and later reporting in February 2016 indicated expansion to approximately 2,000 stores across 2015. However, no public press release, retail filing, or contemporary news coverage documents the exact 850-store milestone or confirms whether the existing base plus the 600-store expansion totaled approximately 850 locations. Because granular retail distribution counts from that specific period are absent from public records, the claim cannot be definitively settled.

Back to the Roots announced on April 24, 2015, that its Mushroom Mini Farm expanded into an additional 600 Home Depot stores for spring 2015.
No contemporary corporate announcements or retail media reports from May 2015 confirm an expansion into specifically 850 Home Depot stores.
Subsequent reporting in February 2016 by AgFunderNews confirmed that Back to the Roots products reached approximately 2,000 Home Depot locations by late 2015/early 2016.

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