09/10/2026
✨HyVee Supplier Impact Summit 2026✨
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📍: HyVee’s Headquarters— West Des Moines, IA
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Hey y’all!! 👋🏽👋🏽 I have some exciting news to share!! Sweet Mae’s is rolling out a new product to market, and we have the opportunity to pitch it to HyVee 1st ✨ We’re calling this our pivot to the retail market. We’ve learned so much since starting this business in 2020. We’ve had some wins as well as some losses. Making pivots will always be key to success! I applied to this opportunity about 2 months ago. I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I put it all on the application and prayed for the best 🙌🏽 To my surprise, we were selected out of 1,200 buyers to be 1 out of 85 small business owners to participate and pitch Sweet Mae’s at Hy-Vee 🛒 Supplier Impact Summit. You might be asking why was it a surprise, well because I was very honest about our losses. Yet, I still clearly shared our wins and lessons. Hyvee is committed to building smaller and emerging brands providing guidance, support, and honesty! They saw the value that Sweet Mae’s brand can bring and gave us an opportunity 🙏🏽✨ We are so grateful for the opportunity! I’m so proud at how far Drew, myself, and our small team have come 🩷
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I also couldn’t make this post without thanking a doughhead of Sebastian Bakehouse . Randy has been working with me behind the scenes to help my our small business a reality in retail stores. We working on recipe development that will increase the shelf life but still maintain the Sweet Mae’s that you know and love. While also maintaining clean ingredients. Thanks you Chef Randy 😊
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Today was the big dayyy, so stay tunnneeddd 🤭🥹😘
