CEO Thom Brodeur on Helming Two Cannabis-Related Companies

December 27, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Hemp Industry News, News & Insights, Packaging, Spotlight
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Most CEOs have their plates full running one company. Thom Brodeur runs two companies without seeming to break a sweat, a feat he’d be the first to say does not reflect the years of transformative work he has overseen since…

springbig: From Yogurt and Pizza Digital Punch to Cannabis CRM Platform

November 3, 2022
Brian MacIver
Ancillary Businesses, Marketing, News & Insights, Science and Technology
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When cannabis customer relationship management (CRM) software company springbig went public this past June, CEO Jeffrey Harris noted in a press release how the move would help “accelerate our growth strategy as a newly public company.” Accelerating an already rapidly…

CEO Roy Bingham Built BDSA on a Bedrock of Data

October 11, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, News & Insights, Spotlight
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In its most recent forecast for the U.S. cannabis industry, BDSA projects that despite falling sales in some of the more mature markets, cannabis sales nationally will continue to increase, growing to $42 billion in 2026. “Despite an inflationary environment…

Advanced Nutrients Reorganizes for the Future

August 8, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 1999 by CEO Michael “BigMike” Straumietis, West Hollywood, California-based Advanced Nutrients has been a staple of the cannabis industry for as long as there has been an identifiable industry. Straumietis is not called BigMike for nothing, of course.…

Cannabis Homegrow Market Offers Opportunities to Ancillary Businesses

Since its earliest days, the legal cannabis industry in the United States has created big opportunities for ancillary businesses – those that provide products and services to licensed plant-touching companies. Just like the California Gold Rush, when businesses that sold…

CEO Dan Barton on Forian’s Unique Data-Driven Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

June 23, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Point-of-Sale, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Forian Inc. (Nasdaq: FORA) delivers cutting-edge technology, analytic and data science-driven solutions for the healthcare and cannabis industries, as well as state governments regulating the cannabis industry via the company’s track-and-trace software, BioTrack, an all-in-one technology…

Botani Managing Director Alex Boone Oversees the Cannabis Subsidiary of a 400-Year-Old Paper Company

April 18, 2022
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, News & Insights, Spotlight
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This article is the first in an ongoing series, From Mainstream to Cannabis, that asks cannabis executives to talk about their personal and professional journey to the industry. Perspective is everything when it comes to Botani, the recently launched offshoot…

Agrify Corp’s Raymond Chang on Creating Holistic Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

NASDAQ-traded, Massachusetts-based Agrify Corporation (AGFY) calls itself a “vertically integrated provider of premium cultivation and extraction solutions for the cannabis and hemp industry,” but that description, apt as it may be, only tells part of the story of this multilayered…

Leaf Trade Founder and CEO James Yi on Designing a “True Marketplace Experience”

October 13, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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While eyes may glaze at the mere mention of POS (point-of-sale) software, where historically many if not most cannabis retailers first encountered technology that in addition to ringing up sales was supposed to keep an accurate record of the flow…

At urban-gro, the Future is Built on Turnkey and IP (Its People)

September 20, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Spotlight
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Lafayette, Colorado-based urban-gro (Nasdaq: UGRO) has been providing ancillary services to large indoor commercial grows since 2014, when it was launched by CEO Brad Nattrass and Chief Development Officer Tavo Gutierrez. The idea for the company, as CBE reported in…

Generation GrowGen: CEO Darren Lampert Is Building a Business for the Long Term

June 23, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Cultivation, Retail, Supply Chain
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Denver, Colorado-based GrowGeneration Corp. (NASDAQ: GRWG), or GrowGen, is a rapidly expanding chain of national retail outlets, or specialty hydroponic and organic garden centers, that caters to the increasingly sophisticated needs of cannabis cultivators at all levels of growing. Servicing…

Benefits of In-House Testing

May 24, 2021
Jacques Santucci
Ancillary Businesses, Lab Testing, News & Insights
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by Jacques Santucci and Nick Des Lauriers Testing your cannabis and cannabis products in-house is an unnecessary added cost since producers are required to test their products tested by a 3rd party lab anyways, right? Think again. As we see it,…

As the Worm Turns: CEO Nicholas Kovacevich is Bullish on KushCo/Greenlane’s Future

April 20, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Mergers & Acquisitions, News & Insights, Newsletters
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For KushCo CEO Nick Kovacevich, the cannabis industry is evolving at warp speed and scale, and companies that mean to succeed need to adapt in kind if they have not done so already. Many are not going to make it,…

Heavy Metal: GreenBroz Founder and CEO Cullen Raichart Loves to Disrupt

April 7, 2021
Tom Hymes
Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Cultivation, Hemp Industry News
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CBE last profiled Las Vegas, Nevada-based GreenBroz Inc. in 2015, when the producer of automated solutions for cannabis growers was shipping 20 trimmers a month to outfits in dire need of faster production output. Fast forward six years, and the…

Cannabis Operations Software: A Complicated Journey

December 7, 2020
Bill Hewson
Ancillary Businesses, Marketing, Retail, Science and Technology
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If there is one thing I have learned in the past 7 years of cannabis business pursuit is that the industry remains incredibly immature. Not the people mind you. Most people I’ve met in the cannabis world are smart, sober…

CEO Thom Brodeur on Helming Two Cannabis-Related Companies

springbig: From Yogurt and Pizza Digital Punch to Cannabis CRM Platform

CEO Roy Bingham Built BDSA on a Bedrock of Data

Advanced Nutrients Reorganizes for the Future

Cannabis Homegrow Market Offers Opportunities to Ancillary Businesses

CEO Dan Barton on Forian’s Unique Data-Driven Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

Botani Managing Director Alex Boone Oversees the Cannabis Subsidiary of a 400-Year-Old Paper Company

Agrify Corp’s Raymond Chang on Creating Holistic Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

Leaf Trade Founder and CEO James Yi on Designing a “True Marketplace Experience”

At urban-gro, the Future is Built on Turnkey and IP (Its People)

Generation GrowGen: CEO Darren Lampert Is Building a Business for the Long Term

Benefits of In-House Testing

As the Worm Turns: CEO Nicholas Kovacevich is Bullish on KushCo/Greenlane’s Future

Heavy Metal: GreenBroz Founder and CEO Cullen Raichart Loves to Disrupt

Cannabis Operations Software: A Complicated Journey

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