Free River

Free River Distributing in Boise, ID, is staking out its share of the market with an expanding line of high-quality products, top-quality customer service and outstanding margins for its retail customers

“Our vision or main goal has always been to offer the  finest Kratom, Kratom extracts and energy products that we could source,” says Ron Pugh, Free River’s Sales and Marketing Manager, “and to offer those products at a fair price, thus allowing our customers the ability to have great margins while offering the highest-quality products.”  the company, founded in 2012, is owned and operated by Jared and Tyson Jones.

Over the years of its operation, Pugh explains, “our business has continued to grow within the Kratom industry, continually searching for the finest, most eff ective strains and extracts available. We have cut out a lot of products we previously offered to focus more on the plant that we are passionate about bringing to the public.”

Free River’s current target market is, in Pugh’s mind, the counter-culture community with an eye to the health and wellness community. “We believe that these markets are evolving as people become more educated about health and wellness.”

Quality, Effectiveness, Margins
Free River’s products differ from their competitors’ in some fundamental ways, according to Pugh. “We believe our family of products is distinguished in the market by being of the highest quality and effectiveness while maintaining an attractive margin for our retailers and good value for their customers. Also, wild-harvested product means no chemicals are used to grow our product.”

 The company’s Medicine Man line of Kratom is comprised of “some of the  finest wild-harvested raw-leaf and enhanced-leaf products available on the market,” Pugh says. Supernatural is the company’s line of carefully selected extracts and tinctures highlighted, he points out, “by our signature extract product Supernatural Platinum. Also, we have in the works new lines and strains coming soon.”

Overall, the company’s Kratom offerings include:

• Super Natural Platinum (50x Red Vein Maeng Da Extract)
• Super Natural Liquid Extract (Red Vein Maeng Da Liquid Extract)
• Super Natural Red Label (30x Red Vein Maeng Da Extract)
• Medicine Man Black Jaguar (Blend: White Vein Maeng Da w/Bali Extract)
• Medicine Man Green Malay (Green Vein Malaysian)
• Medicine Man Lone Wolf (White Vein Maeng Da)
• Medicine Man Phoenix (Red Vein Bali)

As Pugh points out, Free River “strives to offer the highest quality of product available. We are not in business to put out cheap or low-quality products, and we also pride ourselves on maintaining the highest level of customer service.” Its line of  flavored e-liquid products includes:

• Super Natural E-Liquid - Blackberr y Custard
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Banana French Vanilla Berry
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Chocolate Donut
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Double Apple Cream
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Har vest Berry Grape
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Italian Lemon
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Lemon Berr y Marshmallow
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Strawberry Horchata
• Super Natural E-Liquid - Vanilla Birthday Cake

Education: The company helps its partners and end users alike with a web site that contains useful information on all of its products, beginning with Kratom. For example, there is a brief tutorial on just what Kratom is:

“Mitragyna Speciosa, commonly known as Kratom, is a tropical tree that is native to Southeast Asia and is in the same family as coffee (Rubiaceae family). It was  first documented by Pieter Korthals, a Dutch colonial botanist.  The leaf of the tree contains the alkaloid mitragynine along with over 25 other alkaloids and has been traditionally used for its ethnobotanical and medicinal properties. For centuries, Kratom leaves have been used by the indigenous people of Southeast Asia as a stimulant in low doses, a sedative in large doses, an energy booster, an anti-diarrheal, a pain reliever and also to help overcome withdrawal from drug and opiate addiction. Kratom is a 100% natural plant that has been safely used for hundreds of years and is comparable to a strong, high quality cup of coffee. However, unlike coffee, Kratom presents a more balanced, longer-lasting energy effect without the ‘caffeine crash.”

Why buy Free River’s brand of Kratom? As the site goes on to explain in detail:
“Our Kratom products are sourced from the highest quality grade “A” strains available and are wild harvested from the oldest growth forests of Southeast Asia. Herbicides and pesticides are not used on the trees from which our Kratom comes. With an emphasis on bringing our customers Kratom containing active alkaloid percentages that are second to none and an overall goal of complete consumer satisfaction, we strive not only to offer the finest Kratom products available on the market today, but also to provide superb customer service as well.”

“To insure consistent quality, our Kratom is lab tested for purity, alkaloid content and also the presence of any contaminants. In addition and as equally important, we conduct in-house testing with every shipment of product to ensure quality and effectiveness before shipping anything to our customers.”

“We also like to keep our customers educated about Kratom to the best of our knowledge. Many suppliers refer to the strains they provide as simply Bali, Malay, Indo, Maeng Da,  Thai, etc, which is only a part of the equation.  Those names are the regions or areas of Southeast Asia from which the leaves are harvested.  The other part of the equation that many suppliers either don’t relay or are not aware of is whether a strain is a white, red, or green vein and whether or not it is of a horned variety. White veined strains are known to produce effects leaning on the more energetic, stimulating side of the spectrum, while red veined types lean towards the more relaxing or sedative side of the spectrum. On the other hand, with green veined strains, it is somewhat the best of both worlds, having the properties of both white and red veined strains. Regardless of the vein type or region of harvest, horned varieties, which have what appear to be horns or points on the leaves that curl, generally come from the oldest, most mature trees and as such, tend to have a much more active alkaloid profile.”

Retailers can purchase Free River products via phone, email, or contact through the company’s web site, www.freervr.com. “At this time we do not have a wholesale web site,” Pugh says, “but it is in the works, and will help to conveniently give retailers a way to order from us.” Its main source of sales is direct to retailers.

With the products, services and regard for retailers that it demonstrates, Free River is poised to carve out its share of this burgeoning market.

Contact Phone: 855-864-4009 Press 2 for new customers.
Email: salesdept@freervr.com • Website: www.freervr.com