Walmart Growth Summits
Accelerating opportunity for sellers, suppliers, and innovators. A unified platform connecting entrepreneurs with Walmart’s buyers, tools, and partners to scale products, expand markets, and strengthen communities.
What is it?
Walmart Growth Summits bring together Marketplace sellers, suppliers, and innovative companies for focused learning, business matchmaking, and executive alignment. Through a mixture of hands-on training, 1:1 pitch meetings, and partner activations, these events turn connections into commercial results — faster onboarding, stronger assortments, and measurable GMV growth.
- Deepen — Platform fluency
Equip sellers and suppliers with insider knowledge and practical tools to optimize listings, logistics, and onboarding so they perform stronger on Walmart’s platform. - Accelerate — Business readiness
Deliver targeted interventions — product pitch meetings, joint business planning, and service adoption — that help participants convert momentum into sales and operational scale. - Explore — Growth pathways
Highlight new market, export and innovation opportunities through curated sessions with merchants, partners, and government stakeholders.
Why do we do it?
Walmart Growth Summits exist to unlock opportunity at scale for businesses and the communities they serve. By bringing together sellers, suppliers, and innovators, we create direct pathways to grow with Walmart, expand into new markets, and strengthen product assortments that reflect our customers’ needs. These events are designed to accelerate business readiness, foster meaningful partnerships, and build trust in the markets where we operate — positioning Walmart as a long-term partner in sustainable growth.
Export-ready suppliers can also join Walmart Marketplace and reach millions of online customers in the U.S. and other markets through Walmart.com. Walmart.com is a curated community of professional online sellers who offer top-quality, authentic products and best-in-class customer service. To learn more about Walmart.com, visit our Marketplace information page.
Frequently Asked Questions
General FAQ
Walmart Growth Summit is a large sourcing event. For selected entrepreneurs, it is an exciting opportunity to pitch their products to a merchant and potentially get a product in the hands of millions of our customers. Products must be made, grown or assembled in the designated country of the event in order to be considered for the event.
All pitches are one-on-one meetings to provide opportunities for potential deals supplying our stores and formats or participating in our multiple global online marketplace.
In addition to the pitch meetings, the event includes a series of breakout sessions designed to inform and educate business owners of all sizes on what it’s like to do business with Walmart.
As an international retailer, Walmart brings value to customers and communities worldwide, and we understand that local entrepreneurs and manufacturers are vital to the success of the global retail sector. We see huge potential for suppliers to grow their businesses by leveraging the unique scale and global distribution opportunity Walmart provides.
We also believe that by significantly accelerating our international suppliers, we are helping more local businesses reach our customers, while creating jobs and strengthening communities across the globe.
When applications open for each event, you will submit through an exclusive link provided by RangeMe.com. You will be able to access the link when applications go live, but now is a great time to set up a free account on RangeMe and begin building a robust product portfolio and supplier profile. Completing this information now will streamline the required steps once the process starts.
RangeMe is the product discovery and sourcing platform where retailers and suppliers discover, connect and grow their business. Walmart Inc. has partnered with this web platform – RangeMe – for gathering all item pitches for Walmart Growth Summits. Subject to space availability, only items submitted on RangeMe during the application period will be considered.
Supplier FAQ
Yes. You can find general supplier requirements on the Walmart Supplier page. Requirements specific to each market can be found on each country's Walmart Growth Summit page.
All items submitted by the supplier can be viewed on the RangeMe platform.
Yes. We do not allow the following categories to apply or pitch their product to buyers. Please note that each event could have additional limitations outside of the list below.
- Cigarettes/Tobacco
- Pharmaceutical Drugs
- Smoking Accessories
- 3 Point
- Animal Health
- Barn and Stall Equipment
- Equine
- Farm & Ranch Fencing
- Hemp
- Irrigation & Spraying
- Livestock
- Poultry
- Tractor
- Twine
- Retailer Services
- Books
- Movies
- Music
- Musical instrument & karaoke
- Products with ingredients, USPs, Description or Name that include CBD or Cannabis
Your product pitch should focus on items appropriate for the category for which you are meeting. Please limit your product pitch meetings to the items listed in your confirmed meeting invitation (and any color/size/style variants that are appropriate for the category listed in the confirmed meeting information).
Walmart Marketplace sellers are uniquely positioned to tap into Walmart’s omnichannel capabilities and be among the first candidates considered for a Walmart Growth Summit pitch session. Established Marketplace sellers bring millions of exciting products to Walmart.com already. With the Walmart Growth Summit opportunity, together we can expand these offerings to our stores and formats across the world to get popular Marketplace products in the hands of millions of our brick-and-mortar customers. Details about the seller qualification process are available on the Walmart Marketplace website.
Yes. Please review Walmart's Marketplace Prohibited Products Policy for full details.
To learn more about Walmart and where we operate, please see the About Walmart page on our corporate website.
