As a for-profit social venture, GR8Lakes Essentials operates on the principles of improving lives, caring for the planet, and growing profits for those we do business with. Our product offerings currently encompass eco-friendly lighting options and cleaning solutions, as well as emergency lighting and cell phone charging kits. GR8Lakes Essentials has both manufacturing rights and supplier agreements with several U.S.-based companies and continuously seeks to add to its product line.

GR8Lakes Essentials is consistently seeking and developing strategic relationships with wholesale distributors in both retail and commercial sectors around the world. Our distributors, both current and future, share our key customer segments, provide products in line with our mission to improve the human experience, and are focused on the developing world as a target market, whether selling to retailers, direct to consumers, or B2B.  We are open to establishing relationships with a wide variety of distributors, both large and small.

Our high quality, technologically innovative products are thoughtfully designed and selected to ease and enhance daily life, benefit consumers, commercial and industrial entities, facilitate conducting business, and improve public sector resources.

We strive to form long-term, mutually beneficial, relationships with distributors, non-profits, and NGO?s, engaged in the provision of retail goods, lighting products, food and beverage, cleaning supplies, or emergency aid, into both urban and rural centers of population.

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI-USA,  GR8Lakes Essentials is the exclusive, worldwide supplier of the K-Light Essential Lantern; as well as overseas supplier of GR8Lakes Green Clean, GR8Lakes EvapoRust and GR8Lakes SafeWick Candles, all of which are proudly made in the U.S.A.