Services

Beyond a world-class portfolio of beverages, Schott Distributing is in the business of helping your business succeed: getting product in on time, putting the right brands on your shelf and making sure customers notice them.

Distribution / Sales & Consulting / Draught Team / Retail Support / Design & Print

The Schott Distributing sales team in front of the Rochester office

Distribution

We are a full-service beverage distributor, supplying an eight-county territory in southeast Minnesota with the world's best beverages from our warehouse in Rochester. Stores, bars and restaurants in Rochester, Austin, Winona, Albert Lea and the towns in between get dependable deliveries from a team that knows them by name.

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Sales & Consulting

Our goal is to help retailers improve sales and profitability through space and product assortment, recommending the right products and packages based on market trends.

What we recommend

New items that capitalize on market trends
An item mix based on your sales movement
Product mix matched to trends, sales and demographics
No out-of-stocks, based on days of supply
Key brands at eye level for brand power and profitability

How a reset works

We capture the current products and packages in your store and talk through your goals.
We use sales numbers, market data and demographics to set space, days of supply and the cutline, then build a reset proposal.
We review the flow, new and deleted items with you and make the changes you want.
Our in-house reset team cleans the cooler, fills it to the new schematic, re-tags the shelves and sets deleted items aside for markdown.

Draught Team

Our dedicated Draught Team includes some of the best draught technicians in the country. They install draught systems, clean lines and troubleshoot and fix any issue that comes up with your system, so every pour tastes the way the brewer intended.

Retail support

Every account gets more than product. Here are some of the ways our team helps you sell more.

Server training

Beer knowledge for your staff, plus wine and beer dinners.

Creative marketing

Promotions and point-of-sale from our in-house print shop.

Promotional events

Event support and programming to bring customers in.

Promotional merchandise

Wine racks, neons, glassware, coasters and more.

Design & Print

Our in-house design and print shop produces custom menus, large-format wall graphics and the in-store beer displays that turn a stack of cases into a destination.