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HF Foods runs 16+ brands on one Workd backend

A $1.5B publicly traded distributor serving restaurants in 48 states brought its acquired brands onto one platform, and every brand still looks like itself.

NASDAQ-listed 48 states Grown by acquisition
1Each customer sees their own prices 2The same sale your reps are talking about
The challenge

Growth by acquisition left a dozen businesses that couldn’t see each other

Over a decade, HF Foods assembled 16+ regional and specialty brands, each with its own customers and identity. Each one also brought its own store, its own ERP and its own customer database.

A separate store for every acquired brand
A legacy ERP and customer list per brand
Stock in one brand's warehouse invisible to the others
A controller’s full week every month to consolidate
A customer buying from three brands looked like three small accounts
The architecture

Every brand on top. One Workd underneath.

Han Feng
Brand 2
Brand 3
Brand 4
+12 more
Workdone backend
Inventoryone ledger, per-brand allocation
Receivablesone AR ledger and financials
Customersone master, every brand relationship

Per-brand storefronts

Each brand keeps its own domain, design, catalog and customers. A buyer on one brand's store never sees another brand's pricing or stock.

One inventory backbone

Every brand shares one inventory ledger with per-brand allocation rules, so product in any warehouse can be sold by any brand allowed to sell it.

One customer master

A customer can belong to one brand or many. Buyers see only their brand; the corporate sales team sees the whole relationship.

Per-brand sites

Each brand also gets its own marketing site, with its own palette, photography and regional copy. Han Feng was first, and the rest follow the same pattern.

Next: 100% of ordering and payments on Workd portals

HF Foods is bringing all of its ordering and payments onto its Workd portals in 2027.

Why it matters

A template for any distributor that grew by acquisition

Industrial holding companies, building materials portfolios, specialty roll-ups and pharmaceutical wholesalers with several legal entities all face the same problem. With Workd, every brand runs on one source of truth for inventory, receivables, financials and customers, while looking completely independent to its buyers.

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