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Shampoo & conditioner
Liter back-bar sizes and retail bottles from TIGI Bed Head, Joico, Kenra Professional and Wella Professionals — the volume lines that leave the shelf every week.
B2B Wholesale · Clovis, New Mexico
The back bar and the beauty aisle, from one supplier.
Essential Tech Hub holds twenty professional and mass-market hair and personal care brands on its own floor in Clovis, New Mexico — authorized supply, real inventory, one invoice.
Orders confirmed by 1:30 PM MT ship the same business day
1,400+
Active SKUs
20
Brands on the line card
310+
Retail partners
98.6%
Order fill rate
Portfolio
The line card.
Twenty brands, bought through authorized channels and held in Clovis. Salon lines sit on the same pricelist as the drugstore names your customers already reach for.
Professional hair05
- TIGI Bed Head
- CHI
- Joico
- Kenra Professional
- Wella Professionals
Retail hair & scalp07
- OGX
- Maui Moisture
- Pantene
- TRESemmé
- Head & Shoulders
- L’Oréal Paris
- Garnier
Textured & curl02
- Cantu
- Mielle Organics
Body & skin care05
- NIVEA
- Dove
- Vaseline
- Bio-Oil
- Neutrogena
Prestige01
- Clinique
20 brands · 1,400+ active SKUs · lot documentation on request
What we supply
Six categories that keep a shelf busy.
Each category is built around lines that reorder on a predictable cycle. We would rather carry fewer SKUs deeply than list a catalog we cannot ship.
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Styling & finishing
Sprays, pastes, creams and finishing oils. CHI and Bed Head carry the counter sale at the end of a service — which is where salon retail margin actually comes from.
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Treatments & scalp
Bond builders, deep conditioners and scalp lines — Joico repair alongside Head & Shoulders. Higher unit price, slower turn, better margin per facing.
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Textured & curl care
Cantu and Mielle Organics — leave-ins, custards, creams and oils for coil and curl patterns, in the pack sizes that actually turn rather than the ones that look good on a planogram.
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Body & skin care
NIVEA, Dove, Vaseline, Bio-Oil and Neutrogena — the basket-fillers with the most predictable reorder rates on the whole line card.
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Prestige & mass beauty
Clinique next to L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Pantene, TRESemmé, OGX and Maui Moisture, so one order can cover three price points on the same fixture.
The company
One warehouse, no middlemen in the middle.
Essential Tech Hub LLC is a wholesale distributor of hair care and personal care goods working out of a single facility on La Luz Road in Clovis, New Mexico. Everything we quote is on our floor. Nothing is pre-sold, and nothing is drop-shipped from somebody else's rack.
We buy through brand-authorized channels and keep purchase invoices and lot records on file for every line we carry. Ask for the paperwork on any SKU and you will get it. No gray-market imports, no scrubbed batch codes, no exceptions.
From Clovis we reach New Mexico, West Texas, the Oklahoma panhandle, Colorado and Arizona on 1–2 day ground, and the rest of the contiguous United States in 3–5. No minimum order theatrics — $350 to open an account, $150 to reorder, and the pricelist says what it says.
- Warehouse
- Clovis, New Mexico — single site, no satellite depots
- Ship cutoff
- 1:30 PM Mountain Time, Monday to Friday
- Response time
- Trade inquiries answered within one business day
- Account approval
- 1–2 business days from a complete application
- Claim window
- 7 days from delivery, photographs required
Who buys from us
Four kinds of buyer, one pricelist.
Tier pricing is applied automatically by volume. There is no separate deal for the account that argues hardest.
Salons & barbershops
Back-bar liters and retail sizes on one invoice, so the shelf behind the chair earns as much as the chair does.
Independent pharmacies
Body care, scalp care and skin basics with reorder rates you can forecast — and no shelf-warmers padding the invoice.
Grocery & general retail
Everyday hair and body lines that hold their price point through a full promotion cycle instead of collapsing after week two.
Online sellers
Case-quantity supply with consistent lots, so your listings and images do not have to be rebuilt at every restock.
Ordering
Four steps, no gatekeeping.
Most new accounts go from application to first delivery inside a week. Nothing in the process depends on catching a rep by phone.
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Apply
Send your business details, EIN or resale certificate and shipping address through the account form. Approval takes 1–2 business days.
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Get the pricelist
You receive the current pricelist with unit costs, case packs, volume tiers and live stock status — including what is short-dated.
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Order
Email or call your order in. We confirm availability the same day and flag anything on back order with the expected restock week.
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Receive
Confirmed by 1:30 PM MT and it leaves that day, tracked. Check the carton count on delivery; claims run for 7 days after that.
How we operate
Stock you can quote on.
A distributor is only worth the accuracy of its stock file. Ours is counted against the pick face weekly and against reserve racking monthly, which is how we hold a 98.6% order fill rate across 310+ active retail partners.
We do not quote a price we cannot ship. If a SKU is out, the pricelist says so before you build the order around it — that one habit removes most of the friction in wholesale.
Authorized supply only
Every SKU is bought through brand-authorized channels. Purchase invoices and lot documentation are on file and available for any line we carry — before you order, not after a dispute.
Same-day dispatch
Confirmed by 1:30 PM Mountain Time and it ships that business day. Ground is 1–2 days across the Southwest and 3–5 days to the rest of the contiguous United States.
Tiers, not negotiations
Volume discounts apply automatically at the break points printed on the pricelist. No hidden fees, no bespoke deal theatrics, no penalty for being a small account.
Questions
Before you apply.
If something here is not covered, call +1 (470) 625-2598 during business hours and ask. We answer trade inquiries within one business day.
Yes. We supply trade buyers only, so we need a business registration and, in most states, a resale certificate or EIN. A salon suite lease and a state license work for single-chair operators. Approval takes 1–2 business days once the application is complete.
$350 on the first order, $150 on reorders — measured in net product value, not including freight. There is no per-SKU minimum, so you can order a single case of a line you want to test alongside your regular volume.
Both, on one pricelist. TIGI Bed Head, CHI, Joico, Kenra Professional and Wella Professionals sit next to NIVEA, Dove, Pantene, TRESemmé, Garnier and L’Oréal Paris — so a salon with a small retail wall and a pharmacy with a full aisle can buy from the same order sheet.
Everything is bought through brand-authorized channels, arrives sealed, and carries an intact batch code. We keep purchase invoices and lot records for every line and will send them for any SKU on request. If a batch code has been removed from a product, it did not come from us.
New accounts start prepaid by ACH or wire. After six months of clean trading we review for Net 15 or Net 30. We do not take card payments through the website, and we never change bank details by email mid-order.
Note it on the carrier paperwork at the point of delivery, then send us photographs of the outer carton, the inner packing and the affected units within 7 days. Confirmed claims are replaced or credited on your next shipment — we do not ask you to ship damaged goods back across the country.
Journal
Notes from the floor.
Buying, merchandising and stock-control notes written for the people who own the shelf, not for search engines.
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Open an account
Ready to put these brands on your shelf?
Apply for wholesale pricing. Approval takes 1–2 business days, and your first pricelist arrives with the confirmation.
Contact
Find us in Clovis, New Mexico.
Trade inquiries are answered within one business day. Will-call pickup is available with 24 hours' notice.
Essential Tech Hub LLC
- Address
- 3100 La Luz Road
Clovis, New Mexico 88101
United States - Phone
- +1 (470) 625-2598
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 8:00 AM — 5:30 PM MT
Sat: 9:00 AM — 1:00 PM MT
Sun: Closed