How independently run cannabis producers can get their products front and center into new retail stores

By Nicolas Guarino The landscape for licensed adult-use cannabis markets across the United States is constantly shifting, with rocky highs and lows as markets navigate and overcome a range of issues in real time. For instance, New York initially had…

LeafLink Refocused (UPDATED)

December 11, 2023
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Science and Technology, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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It has been about 18 months since Cannabis Business Executive profiled Artie Minson, who had just joined New York-based LeafLink after five years at WeWork, joining the executive team as the online cannabis wholesaler’s new president and chief operating officer.…

An Essential Metrc Adjusts for the Future

September 19, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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If there is an all-encompassing company in cannabis, it has to be Metrc. With more than 20 state governments (and one American Territory) under seed-to-sale contract, the Lakeland, Florida-based technology company is the dominant provider of cannabis track-and-trace solutions in…

Colorado marijuana companies take a hit from global supply-chain issues

“On top of a very, very heavy regulatory load, this is just one more thing for this industry,” says Truman Bradley of the Marijuana Industry Group Colorado’s marijuana companies aren’t immune to the supply chain disruptions testing industries worldwide, with…

What’s In a Number? Why You Should Be Thinking About Your ‘Perfect Order Index’

As the cannabis industry matures, executives have increasingly more access to data to analyze around how efficiently and how accurately they are fulfilling their customers’ demands. It’s paramount to success. Fail to honor your promise to your customer, and they…

HERBL CEO Mike Beaudry Sees a Natural (Food) Arc in Cannabis Distribution

July 6, 2021
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Distribution, Spotlight, Supply Chain
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In California, the nation’s largest legal (and traditional) cannabis market, distribution, the literal lifeline of any CPG industry, is kind of a free-for-all. If you want to do it, get a license, and do it. Whatever floats your boat. It…

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…

The Exponential Value of a ‘Retail-Centric’ Multi-Vertical Strategy

In a nascent industry, it is often the case that a business needs to own multiple-verticals in the supply chain because the verticals are often underdeveloped, unreliable, or non-existent. But not every vertical is of equal importance and not every…

How Customer Data Can Drive Cannabis Operators’ Decision Making

January 12, 2021
Bill Hewson
Best Practices, Marketing, Retail, Supply Chain
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In traditional consumer packaged goods markets, the balance between retailers and manufacturers is dynamic and competitive. When it comes to consumer data and shopping behavior data, retailers have a huge advantage over their manufacturer providers. Why? Because they have access…

Top Four Concerns for Tri-Party Cannabis Supply Chain Agreements

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken Cannabis supply chain agreements (e.g., manufacturing agreements, distribution agreements, license agreements, supply agreements) can be difficult enough to draft and negotiate when there are just two parties. The immense amount of over-regulation in…

Coronavirus and cannabis: Vape supply is a concern due to China shutdown

‘Aside from vape hardware, we can find sources that supply most of our core products in Canada and internationally,’ Tilray CEO says Amid a widespread market selloff due to investor concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak, cannabis companies also have to…

How independently run cannabis producers can get their products front and center into new retail stores

LeafLink Refocused (UPDATED)

An Essential Metrc Adjusts for the Future

Colorado marijuana companies take a hit from global supply-chain issues

What’s In a Number? Why You Should Be Thinking About Your ‘Perfect Order Index’

HERBL CEO Mike Beaudry Sees a Natural (Food) Arc in Cannabis Distribution

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

The Exponential Value of a ‘Retail-Centric’ Multi-Vertical Strategy

How Customer Data Can Drive Cannabis Operators’ Decision Making

Top Four Concerns for Tri-Party Cannabis Supply Chain Agreements

Coronavirus and cannabis: Vape supply is a concern due to China shutdown

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