The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the lack of visibility many organizations had into their offshore suppliers and manufacturers, leading to a call for greater supply chain resilience and traceability. This call for greater traceability has led many businesses to consider moving pieces of their supply chain to local regions. Download the white paper to learn the benefits of localizing a supply chain.
Speaking at Expo West in 2015 two years after selling his coconut water brand to Coca-Cola, ZICO founder Mark Rampolla observed that his nine years running the business had been “absolutely brutal.” Six years later, he’s back at the helm, after buying ZICO back from Coke via growth equity fund Powerplant Ventures.
BeyondBrands enters sugar-free chocolate category with launch of GoodSam Foods GoodSam Foods, a new brand of no-sugar-added, direct-trade chocolate launched by BeyondBrands, has entered the sugar-free chocolate confectionery category with products sweetened with emerging sweetener allulose.
Co-developed and founded in 2019 by Sam Stroot, a natural products industry veteran, and Heather Terry, BeyondBrands chief strategy officer and co-founder of NibMor organic chocolate,
GoodSam Foods formed an exclusive relationship with
Thrive Market on the eve of the cancelled 2020 Natural Products Expo West Show. All of us physically got in a room together the day before Expo West was cancelled. Had that not happened we may not be on the path we re on now, said Eric Schnell, CEO of BeyondBrands, who has launched a number of mission-driven brands including Good Catch plant-based seafood into the marketplace.
Oily fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon are our primary dietary source of the long chain omega 3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).