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Missouri-based Greenlight is Growing

April 2, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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When Cannabis Business Executive profiled Greenlight in September 2022, the MSO was flying under the radar in three states – Missouri, Arkansas, and West Virginia – with two more – Illinois and South Dakota – about to open up. Founded…

Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots

March 27, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the…

Root & Bloom’s House of Startups

March 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Salisbury, Massachusetts-based Root & Bloom is a locally and independently owned producer of quality cannabis products whose relatively recent entrance into a quickly maturing Massachusetts market has resulted in a string of achievements that include a steady increase in the…

A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders

March 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under…

Housing Cannabis: A Talk with NewLake CEO Anthony Coniglio

March 5, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2019, New Canaan, Connecticut-based NewLake Capital Partners (OTCQX: NLCP) is a triple-net lease REIT that utilizes its cannabis, real estate, and financial services experience to purchase properties leased to U.S. cannabis operators. The company has tenants that span…

This Brewer Found A Way To Blend Beer and Cannabis

By Pam Chmiel The convergence of beer and cannabis into a single beverage is no longer just a concept—it's a reality. Ross Hunsinger, an experienced beer brewer, teamed up with Abstrax Tech, a company specializing in botanical terpene extraction, to…

Selling Weed, but Making It Fashion

A day with Brett Heyman, the designer who is trying to push the legal cannabis market in a more stylish, sunny direction. Two weeks ago, an accessories designer named Brett Heyman sold weed, legally, for the first time in New…

Cannabist CEO David Hart on ‘Sweating the Assets’

February 20, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Cannabis Business Executive has covered New York-based Columbia Care (NEO: CBST) (OTCQX: CBSTF) (FSE: 3LP) many times over the years, including lengthy profiles in late 2021 with co-founder Nicholas Vita, and in September of last year with then Chief Commercial…

The Local/National Focus of Timeless Refinery

January 16, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Arizona-based Timeless Refinery, which celebrated its ten-year anniversary in 2023, is a self-funded multi-state lifestyle house of brands that owes its longevity to creating and sustaining a local following in every market it enters. As explained by President Josh Hirschey,…

Sprawling new cannabis manufacturing, cultivation facility set to open in St. Louis County

Maryland-based company Curio Wellness is set to take over manufacturing and cultivations licenses from VMO-Ops, the state’s only Black-owned vertically integrated license holder MARYLAND HEIGHTS — Covered in white protective clothing, Wendy Bronfein stepped into a long, sterile hallway of…

What Does It Takes To Launch A Cannabis Beverage Brand And Win?

This article is based on an interview with Jason Reposa, founder of Good Feels, an infused cannabis beverage brand based in Massachusetts.We talked about his manufacturing operations, his business challenges, and how he is building national brand awareness. He's constantly…

Naturae Checks All the Right Boxes

November 21, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, New York, News & Insights
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As New York continues its circus-like effort to create a functional adult-use cannabis market, legal operators in the state are stuck with a slow-motion rollout that continues to threaten their ability to serve a state with too few legal stores…

The biggest pot distributor in California has collapsed

This spring, rumors were swirling that HERBL, one of California’s largest cannabis distribution companies, was on the verge of collapse. So Mike Beaudry, the company’s CEO, sent out an email on May 18 declaring that “these rumors are categorically not true. HERBL continues…

Azuca Expands Its Reach & Product Offerings

Recently ranked no. 214 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, New York-born and New Mexico-based Azuca has also added new products to its offerings since Cannabis Business Executive profiled the company in July of 2022.…

Multistate Distro: Catching Up With Nabis

October 4, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Distribution, News & Insights, Spotlight
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It is always edifying getting caught up with a distributor, especially a cannabis wholesaler whose bones were built in the hardscrabble California markets, where buzzards get fat on the unwary, the unlucky, and the lazy. To that end, Cannabis Business…