Convectium: Cannabis Post-Harvest Equipment Manufacturer Navigates Murky Industry Waters February 6, 2023 Brian MacIver Company Stories, Manufacturing 0 Comments Founded by Danny Davis in 2014, Convectium has been supplying the cannabis industry with cartridge-filling systems since the release of its first design, the 710Shark, in 2015. The first iteration of the machine “was a mass-produced glue machine from the… Read More→
Curaleaf’s Boris Jordan on Reallocation, SAFE Banking, and Suing New York (Maybe) February 1, 2023 Tom Hymes Cannabis Investments, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Last week, Curaleaf, one of the cannabis industry’s largest multistate operators by any metric, including international footprint, announced the closure of operations in California, Colorado, and Oregon. The subhead of its press release, “Proactive Exit Will Generate Additional Cash and… Read More→
Catching Up With Kanha: The Sunderstorm Brand Targets Thailand and Beyond January 23, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Like any cannabis company building on the success of its branding efforts, California-based Sunderstorm, producer of Kanha gummies, is constantly reevaluating its expansion strategy while trying to stay true to the elements that enabled it to create a sustainable brand… Read More→
lolo has NorCal Cannabis Co. Feeling Not-So-Low January 23, 2023 Brian MacIver Company Stories, Cultivation, Spotlight 0 Comments NorCal Cannabis Co. might not be a nationally recognized name (yet), but California consumers are definitely buying their products. The company, officially launched in 2015, saw its lolo cannabis brand hit the top spot in units sold and second place… Read More→
Revisiting Jushi: A Conversation with CEO Jim Cacioppo January 10, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments When CBE profiled Jushi Holdings (CSE: JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF) in June of 2021, the Boca Raton-Florida-based company operated 19 retail stores in a handful of states from coast to coast, and was looking forward to opening many more stores as… Read More→
CannabizTeam Offers Full-Spectrum Employment For The Cannabis Industry January 2, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, HR and Staffing, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Founded in 2016, CannabizTeam focuses all of its energy on human resources in the cannabis industry, which represents a remarkably complex and diverse arrangement of labor, especially when one works with the entire supply chain, which CannabizTeam does on a… Read More→
Fluent in Florida: CEO Robert Beasley’s Strategy of Growth by Contraction December 12, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Founded in 2016, Cansortium Inc. is the publicly traded parent company of Florida-based Fluent, which was rebranded from Knox Medical in May 2019. Fluent is a multistate operator with a reach as far west as Texas and as far north… Read More→
Presidential Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary with Multistate Expansion December 1, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Presidential Cannabis Company is as deeply rooted as any cannabis brand in California, especially in the southern half of the state, where its distinctively packaged high-end infused prerolls have held a place on store shelves since the 215 days, when… Read More→
The Flower Shop Looks Beyond Arizona and Utah November 17, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Arizona-based TFS Brands, aka The Flower Shop, began life as SKY Dispensaries in 2017 only to rebrand to its current name in 2019 following the promotion of Greta Brandt from General Counsel to her current role as President of the… Read More→
Brightfield Group Harnesses the Power of Consumer-Centric Data November 7, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Marketing, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Understanding the customer is the professed bedrock of every company with a consumer product to sell, but what do you do when the industry is brand spanking new, many of its consumers are also new, and the ones that are… Read More→
Nabis Plans to Deliver More Market Share and More Markets November 1, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Founded by Vince C. Ning and Jun S. Lee, California wholesale cannabis delivery platform Nabis has seen steady growth since it first hit the ground driving in 2018 with a model that over time has added helpful services such as… Read More→
Building on the Legacy of Cheeba Chews October 26, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights 0 Comments There is not much brand recognition in cannabis still to this day, so it was somewhat notable in 2020 when Green Horizons released a survey indicating that, among other findings, “Across 20 brands tested, only three—Leafs by Snoop, Cheeba Chews,… Read More→
All About the Execution: A Conversation with Curaleaf CEO Matt Darin October 24, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight 1 Comment With over 6000 employees, 144 dispensaries, and over 2,200 wholesale dispensary accounts across 21 states, and counting, Curaleaf is an MSO in constant motion, launching new stores here, buying new companies there, expanding its footprint not only nationally but internationally… Read More→
Flowhub: A Streamlined Experience for Large (and Small) Retail Operations October 23, 2022 Brian MacIver Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Science and Technology 0 Comments After discovering how CBD could help him get off of prescription SSRIs, Kyle Sherman, founder and CEO of cannabis POS software company Flowhub, moved with his family from California to Colorado in 2013. While California was still the medical cannabis… Read More→
CEO & Founder Gary Cohen Delivers Cova’s Point-of-(Compliant)-Sale Software Secret Sauce October 19, 2022 Brian MacIver Company Stories, Point-of-Sale, Spotlight 0 Comments By Brian MacIver When Gary Cohen, founder and CEO of cannabis industry point-of-sale (POS) software company Cova, was working for another large POS company operating in the retail cellphone market, he never dreamed he would one day be making the… Read More→