Enquirer Consulting Group
Dan Gollin | Hoboken Farms | October 2026
As of 12 Oct 2026
This page maps the organizations that buy premium pasta and pizza sauces, either to sell on their shelves or to use in their kitchens. It sorts them by type and size and shows who usually signs off at each.
It reads your market from the outside, from public records and your own website. Nothing on it describes how Hoboken Farms runs today.
Companies in each group across the US, by staff size. These are firms, not store locations, so a chain with many stores counts once.
| Group | Organizations in the US | Under 20 staff | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets and grocery chains | about 39,000 | about 30,000 | about 6,800 | about 960 | about 280 |
| Specialty and gourmet food stores | about 5,200 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Warehouse clubs and supercenters | about 25 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| General line grocery distributors | about 2,600 | about 2,200 | about 270 | about 94 | about 67 |
| Specialty and other grocery distributors | about 11,000 | about 9,100 | about 1,100 | about 310 | about 210 |
| Pizzerias and Italian restaurant groups | no clean public count |
US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.
The person who says yes to a new sauce, and who else usually weighs in.
| Group | Who usually signs off | Who else weighs in |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets and grocery chains | The center store category manager or buyer who owns the pasta sauce set | A grocery merchandising director on new items, and a category review team at larger chains |
| Natural and organic grocers | The grocery buyer or category manager | Store and regional managers, at chains that let stores add local items |
| Independent and specialty food stores | The owner or the grocery manager | The buyer at the cooperative or wholesaler the store orders through |
| Warehouse clubs | The grocery buyer for packaged foods | A regional buyer for local and seasonal items |
| Grocery and specialty food distributors | The category manager or purchasing manager | A new item committee, and the sales reps who carry the item to stores |
| Pizzerias and Italian restaurant groups | The owner or the executive chef | The purchasing director at multi-unit groups, and the foodservice distributor's category manager |
The questions a new sauce has to answer before it gets a yes.
| Group | What they weigh |
|---|---|
| Supermarkets and grocery chains | How the item sells in nearby stores, the promotion plan behind it, and whether it earns a slot at the next category review |
| Natural and organic grocers | Clean labels and third-party certifications, and a story shoppers can read off the jar |
| Independent and specialty food stores | A local story, margin on the shelf, and a display that sells the jar without staff |
| Warehouse clubs | Multi-pack formats, steady supply, and demand already proven at regular grocery |
| Grocery and specialty food distributors | Retailers already asking for the item, and enough movement to justify a warehouse slot |
| Pizzerias and Italian restaurant groups | Consistent taste batch to batch, yield per case, and a distributor that already carries it |
The people who usually say yes to a new sauce in the groups above, one a company, at Northeast grocers, specialty markets and the distributors that supply them. None of them carry Hoboken Farms today as far as your site shows. Work emails and phone numbers as of Oct 12, 2026.
| Name | Role | Company | Where | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Berube | Director of Merchandising and Private Label | Associated Supermarket Group | Port Washington, NY | dan.berube@asghq.com | +1 917 806 3516 |
| Pietro Andreoni | Buyer, Specialty Procurement | Eataly | New York, NY | pietro.andreoni@eataly.com | +39 339 600 2279 |
| Cesare Martini | Category Manager | Gary's Wine & Marketplace | Madison, NJ | cesarem@garyswine.com | +1 908 202 7140 |
| Karen Palmer | Buyer | Weavers Way Co-op | Philadelphia, PA | kpalmer@weaversway.coop | +1 484 432 4593 |
| Emma Dineen | Category Manager | Misfits Market | Delanco, NJ | emma.dineen@misfitsmarket.com | +1 207 318 1101 |
| John Noe | Senior Category Manager | UNFI | Providence, RI | jnoe@unfi.com | +1 860 908 0860 |
| Ryan Schubert | Senior Specialty Buyer | The Chefs' Warehouse | Ridgefield, CT | rschubert@chefswarehouse.com | +1 732 241 4078 |
| Justin Freyer | Buyer | Foods Galore | Westampton, NJ | jfreyer@foodsgaloreusa.com | +1 856 630 2111 |
| Chesky Tyrnauer | Senior Buyer | S. Bertram | Linden, NJ | chesky@sbertram.com | +1 845 721 8992 |
| Mark Engelhardt | Director of Purchasing | Quality Food Company | Providence, RI | mengelhardt@qualityfoodcompany.com | +1 401 323 2118 |
Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.
If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.
Prepared by Matthew, matthew@enquirerconsulting.com.