About B-O-F Corporation

As a retailer, you strive to sell more, reduce costs and increase profits.

B-O-F can help with shelving solutions that deliver just that.

For over sixty years, B-O-F has worked closely with retailers to develop innovative merchandising solutions to boost ROI in the cooler sections where dairy, beverage, and other products are sold.  Most recently B-O-F has extended their focus to the center aisle as well, providing solutions for wine, laundry detergents, canned products and more.

It’s why 85% of leading national grocery chains depend on B-O-F to deliver important products into their customers’ hands. Now, drug stores, convenience stores, big box retailers, and liquor stores are also discovering the benefits of B-O-F gravity flow shelving.

Our Story

B-O-F Corporation, known for its gravity flow (also called gravity feed) shelving solutions, has served the retail grocery industry since its founder, Edward Knorring, first began his entrepreneurial start in 1953. The company’s reputation as an advisor to, and collaborator with, retailers who sell milk, dairy, and cold beverage products is a result of its relentless quest to meet the grocery industry’s requirements to deliver cold dairy and beverages safely and attractively to consumers. Today, B-O-F is a leading inventor, patent-holder and designer of innovative gravity flow shelving products that help grocery stores, drug stores, liquor stores, and convenience stores sell more dairy and beverage with fewer labor costs.

Mr. Knorring started out as a manufacturer’s representative offering merchandising products, including conveyors, shelving, and other material handling items, to the grocery industry. With the emergence of the supermarket, Mr. Knorring saw a niche for better, more efficient, more attractive product delivery systems at the retail level.

Through acquisitions, the company continued to expand and acquire more knowledge about and access to a variety of products for the grocery industry, including carton cutters, glass doors, and gravity flow shelving.

By 1982, the company began manufacturing a gravity flow shelving product through a division named Bev-O-Flow. The success of the gravity flow shelving system was rapid. The product alleviated labor pains associated with stocking shelves in a neat and efficient manner. It allowed retailers to put more product at the consumer’s fingertips with less labor. It also enabled retailers to enhance merchandising aesthetics which increased sales for retailers, leading to more growth for B-O-F.