ADC brand activation

Helping consumer brands scale across Australia and New Zealand.

ADC connects emerging consumer brands with millions of customers through direct selling shows and activations. Real buyers, real data, real growth.

See how it works

Brands growing through the ADC platform

Kiwi Artisan
Petite Eats
Crunch Time
Ironclad
Best of the Bone
Eden Orchard
Fic and Fogg
Truff
Viberi
Kiwi Artisan
Petite Eats
Crunch Time
Ironclad
Best of the Bone
Eden Orchard
Fic and Fogg
Truff
Viberi

We're on a mission to fix a broken retail model.

Most consumer brands don't fail because the product is wrong. They fail because getting in front of the right customers, owning the relationship and proving demand at scale is harder than it should be.

You don't own the customer

Retail owns the relationship, the data and the repeat purchase pathway.

Margins get compressed

Shelf fees, co-op spend and slow payment terms erode the economics before momentum can build.

You don't get real customer data

Aggregate sales numbers don't tell you who bought, why they bought or how to bring them back.

Incumbents control the shelf

Retail access is gatekept, expensive and difficult to scale without proven demand.

The ADC platform

The advantage traditional retail can't give you.

Retail can put your product on a shelf. ADC puts your brand in front of real customers and gives you the data, sales and proof to keep growing.

  • Generate revenue from day one through live, direct customer conversion.

  • Build your own customer list and first-party data asset, not a retailer's report.

  • Use live sales velocity and real customer feedback to enter retail from a position of proof.

What brands say.

Hear from brand partners growing through the ADC platform.

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"ADC gave us direct access to customers we couldn't reach through retail. Within three months we had 2,000 new buyers and the velocity data to start conversations with major supermarkets."
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"The first-party data we captured through ADC activations is now the backbone of our ecommerce strategy. We know exactly who our customer is, what they buy and when they come back."
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Market event

How it Works

Five steps from launch to scale.

01 / Launch

Launch across 100+ locations

Your brand goes live across selected shows, markets, events and mall activations chosen for audience fit, footfall and commercial potential.

Launch across 100+ locations

02 / Sell

Direct sales from day one

Trained teams sample, educate and sell your product directly to high-intent buyers in person. Real revenue, no middlemen.

Direct sales from day one

03 / Capture

Build your customer data asset

Every interaction builds your owned customer data, including emails, preferences, purchase behaviour and product feedback.

Build your customer data asset

04 / Retain

Turn buyers into repeat customers

Captured data feeds remarketing, ecommerce growth and repeat purchase from customers who already know your brand.

Turn buyers into repeat customers

05 / Scale

Scale with proof behind you

Live sales, customer feedback and velocity data give your brand the proof needed to grow across ecommerce, wholesale and retail.

Scale with proof behind you

Built for founders who are done
waiting for permission to grow.

If you've got a product customers need to try, ADC gives you a way to get it into their hands, learn what works and build the proof to scale.

You're building a consumer brand

Food, beverage, pantry, snacking, baby, wellness or premium consumer goods.

You want customers, not impressions

You need real buyers, real feedback and repeat purchase potential.

You need data before you scale

You want first-party data built from real customer interactions, not assumptions.

You're preparing for retail

You need velocity, validation and demand proof before bigger ranging conversations.

The difference

Traditional retail vs. the ADC model

ADC Platform

Direct commerce model

Traditional Retail

Conventional distribution

Who owns the customer relationship

Brand owns every customer
Retailer owns the customer

Customer data

Cash flow

Direct from live sales
Net 60–90 payment terms

Real-time product feedback

Retail-ready proof of demand

Event locations across ANZ

100+
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Margins

Higher through direct commerce
Compressed by shelf fees

The numbers behind the platform.

100+

Event locations

across ANZ

800+

Selling days

annually

5M+

Customer interactions

per year

$11M+

Revenue generated

last 12 months

138%+

Portfolio growth

year on year

65%

Gross margin

across the platform

Real customers.
Real data.
Real growth.

If your brand is ready to acquire customers at scale, validate in market and build the proof that opens retail doors - apply to become an ADC brand partner.

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