Vincent Ayar, Cannatron and Ooze Wholesale

The business began life as Ooze Wholesale, the arm that moved Ooze products, and a set of house brands, out to the trade. It was later renamed Cannatron. Older articles, directory listings and profiles may use either name, which is why both appear in searches connected to Vincent Ayar.

Nothing about the location changed with the name: the operation is in Oak Park, in the same Metro Detroit community as the Ooze headquarters.

Alongside Ooze itself, the catalog has included brands such as King Palm, Truweigh, Stache, Loud Lock and Green Monkey. Those products reach a network of more than 500 distributors and over 8,000 retail shops in the United States and Canada.

As industry context, a wholesale house of this kind sits between makers and storefronts. Shops get a single account for many brands instead of dozens of separate vendor relationships, and brands get shelf presence in places they could not reach alone. The value is in reliable fulfillment and breadth of catalog.

Ooze Wholesale, now Cannatron, was named to Inc. magazine's list of fast-growing private companies in both 2019 and 2020. That is an honor awarded to the company, based on its growth, rather than a personal award to any one partner.

For readers unfamiliar with it, the Inc. 5000 is an annual ranking of privately held American companies ordered by revenue growth over a multi-year window, and appearing in consecutive years signals sustained rather than one-off expansion.

Vincent Ayar's best-known role is co-founder of Ooze, where he oversees design and brand. The distribution business is the channel that puts those designs in front of thousands of retailers. Being a Partner in both gives him a view of a product from first sketch to the shop shelf where it is finally sold.

Carrying a mix of its own brand and partner labels lets a wholesaler offer a shop owner a fuller order in one shipment: wraps from King Palm, scales from Truweigh, storage from Stache or Loud Lock, alongside Ooze hardware. A broad catalog is what keeps thousands of independent accounts ordering from the same supplier.