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Why Partner with The Douglas Stewart Company?

  • Trusted partnerships with the major industry players
  • Expansive reach into diverse customer segments
  • Relationships built across organizations providing access to sales, marketing and purchasing departments
  • Extensive knowledge of the student and education purchaser
  • Product category expertise resulting in customer trust that allows us to get the product placement you want
  • Aggressive product promotion through our dedicated sales teams
  • Proven merchandising and category strategies to drive sales
  • Extensive marketing programs to reach end users, buyers, and key influencers

Our Distribution Services

North America

Warehouse locations in Madison, WI, Reno, NV and Toronto, Canada, for coast-to-coast coverage of North America.
Our multiple warehouse locations allow us to reach over 75% of our customers consistently within two days.

International

Wholly owned UK subsidiary 1,000+ resellers in 35 countries with distribution centers in the UK and Netherlands.

Our Business Services

Eligibility / Verification

Identit-e’s global online verification service helps clients preserve their channel integrity. Our multi-lingual staff assisting requests in 12+ languages ensures discounted products or services are only sold to customers that meet the client’s unique eligibility requirements.

Market Development:

Developing a market entry strategy customized to your product's life cycle, we build end-user demand while determining and establishing appropriate routes to market.

Our Reach

On-Campus Segment – Independents

  • On-campus business is in our DNA - We have 60+ years of sales and marketing relationships with all levels of this market including stores at community colleges, 4 year universities of all sizes and IT departments.
  • Our experience and knowledge give us insight into reaching your targeted demographic on-campus.

On-Campus Segment – Lease

  • We have long standing, multi-tiered relationships with all of the major college store lease operators and the 2,500 plus campuses they run.
  • We provide program management and marketing to promote your success within these large lease operators.

Value Added Reseller Segment (LAR's)

  • We provide you with access to a broad base of VAR partners from the largest IT resellers to niche education specialists focused on curriculum or special needs students.
  • We provide/manage programs that drive results in this segment such as deal registration to encourage lead creation, cultivation and closing.

 

Apple Segment

  • We know Apple – Apple's direct education sales team, Apple.com, Apple retail stores, Apple Specialist resellers, and Apple authorized on campus stores.
  • We have a dedicated account manager for this segment providing personalized consultative service and solutions to customers in order to help your Apple related products thrive.

Retail Segment

  • We reach students and education buyers wherever they shop, include retail and e-tail outlets.
  • We have access to buyers at large national brick and mortar retailers, online only retailers, and regional or specialist retailers.
  • We facilitate the adoption and set-up of new products as well as on-going marketing and granular sales monitoring to help drive success at a store level.
  • We have a strong reputation with retail buyers for bringing unique products to market that appeal to student demographic.