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In today's CBD: Two of the largest Black-owned breweries, California's Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. and Full Circle Brewing Co., have struck a watershed alliance to leverage its members’ strengths and show up at market in a much bigger way. The new shared resources platform is dubbed “Circle of Crowns Beverage Group” (CCBG). The alliance “combines two leading Black-owned brands and centralizes production, sales and marketing between the two companies,” per announcement. Production will be centralized at Full Circle. Currently, the brands produce about 10,000 barrels collectively. It’s about “unlocking untapped opportunities” in the craft market, by "leveraging retail and venue diversity programs." Historically, Black suppliers have lacked the infrastructure to address these opportunities on a wide scale. CCBG also includes the historic Speakeasy Ales & Lagers brand, one of the oldest in San Francisco, and Sonoma Cider. "As you know, there's 9,000-plus breweries out there, and there's only 1% that are Black-owned," Arthur Moye, Full Circle founder, told CBD. "And I think, during a good period of the last half a decade or so, people have wanted to support Black-owned businesses. So you have major retailers reaching out to those 1%; you have distributors reaching out to those 1%; but then there hasn't been a structure by which they could significantly respond, because that 1% is mostly represented by people that don't have production facilities and can't create the margins and the economies of scale to sit on the shelves throughout the distribution networks of the chains." This starts to solve that. More here, we left the story open to all. https://lnkd.in/gsHErbeK
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Marc Lapides
California Governor Newsom signed an exemption for restaurants to the so-called Junk Fees legislation. Restaurants now have carte blanche to charge whatever hidden fees they want to. We know consumers hate these fees-they value transparency, which is exactly why the California legislature banned hidden fees in every other industry. What a great opportunity for a restuarant to build into its brand equity that they are the "no-fees" restaurant. The price on the menu is the price you pay, plus tax and tip, of course. If I owned a restaurant and felt that I couldn't support the employees' benefits or whatever the intention of the fees I charge, I'd wrap it into the menu price. Consumers don't like higher prices, of course, but I believe many customers would be willing to pay an extra $1 or even $2 on an item when they know that there are no extra fees, while every other restaurant likely has hidden fees. Every research study I've seen says consumers hate these fees and some won't even visit a restaurant again if they got nailed with a hidden fee. What an opportunity for smart restaurateurs.
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Gregory Frye
🍔California's Fast-Food Industry Conundrum Requires a Strategy Reset🍟 Why eat at McDonald's when you can hit up Applebee's, etc. for a couple dollars more? California fast-food franchisees face a major competitive impasse in the wake of the state's new minimum wage laws. In a knee-jerk reaction to absorb these costs, fast-food franchisees have raised menu prices by 10-12%, forcing them to compete with sit-down eateries like Chili's or Applebees, which are not affected by the new minimum wage laws. The fast-food sector in California has suddenly lost its competitive advantage on price, and if it's going to survive, additional strategic questions and choices are required. Of course, franchisees are limited in the decisions they can make, which means a strategic review is required at the corporate level. The most obvious focus here is how to regain cost leadership. These fast-food enterprises must dig deep and with enough creativity and analytical insight will no doubt find new opportunities to cut costs with the right questions and choices. Although let's not overlook the fact that fast-food chains will now have to focus on differentiation like never before. This will require new winning aspirations, new where-to-play, and how-to-win choices, along with an audit of strategic capabilities and management systems. This is an interesting situation because fast-food has competed on cost for decades Adjusting for new marketing demands is a lot of work no doubt, although my sense is that the challenge in California is actually a blessing in disguise for fast-food corporations because costs are rising all over the place, and it's only a matter of time before this industry faces similar challenges in other markets, if they haven't already. Some of the strategic choices made in California could easily have lateral effects across the entire corporation while also equipping these fast-food enterprises with a strategic playbook with which to continuously push for competitive advantage in any market conditions.
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Michael Christopher Reid
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Christian Lee
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Kevin Rutherford
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Lee Brandt
With all of the data starting to come out around California's new $20 minimum wage for Fast Food workers, I still feel like hiking the minimum wage is the wrong tool for the job. It neither enhances economic mobility nor alleviates poverty in most situations. In fact, regulating a higher minimum wage decreases both the employer's ability to reward high performers and employee's ability to negotiate working conditions vs wage. Some workers, think a single mom with two kids, would be consider the compensating differential of a slightly lower wage for more flexible hours that allow her more time with her children (I've personally seen employee's choose this option). If the goal is about providing more people access to upward social and economic mobility, we, as business leaders, have to be about doing business differently, for the good of our people and our business. The profits gained from good business should be put to work impacting the local communities these businesses support, part of that is helping set up our employees for long term success with us or beyond our business. Working with teams across the country for one of the largest chicken restaurant chains in the country, I've come to believe that an emphasis on leadership development, great store culture, and community involvement have a much larger impact on the long term success of my employees and their communities than just the wage I pay them. Look, I'm not advocating to deregulate the laws around worker's compensation. I, for one, am all about paying employees well for their work; because their good work is a driving factor in the success of the business. I just think the impact of this regulation will not have as great a benefit for worker's rights as our lawmakers have led us to believe. If we really want to make a long-term beneficial impact on our employees and our communities, that work is best done on a local scale.
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Josh Demidovich
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David Lund
I am excited when Walmart innovates. The launch of their new Better Goods food brand is bringing innovation, a new private label brand, and new price points to their shelves. This is a smart move at a time when shoppers are changing stores to save money. I know people who have said they would not buy private-label food from Walmart. With this new launch of more than 300 products, there will be many new interesting and tasty products for shoppers to try. This is worth watching. #foodstrategy #foodandbeverage #foodinnovation
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Hunter Rudd
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Avraham Aisenberg
Check out this article featuring LabelGPT in American Craft Spirits Magazine! I really appreciate the support and look forward to playing a role in bringing AI to the spirits industry in a meaningful and measurable way. Everyone keeps asking me how much I’m charging for the service. The answer is simple, It’s Free! Sometimes, technology or products should exist for the benefit of the industry, without capitalism being the driving force. We can observe this phenomenon in open source software development. LabelGPT is an cross section of my knowledge and experience in the Spirits Industry with my 20+ years as a programmer. If you are involved in the design or packaging of spirits, wine, or beer, give it a try and let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/g6ZSf4b8
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Ed Malik
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David Rigg
This is an interesting article, although I don't think Kellanova and WK Kellogg are really on different paths as implied. The ban of Red 3 in California is a de-facto national ban since it is not possible for major food retailers to segregate what they sell in each State. Consumer Brands Association is right that the patchwork approach is going to lead to potential chaos. At Sensient, we are working brands who want to prepare for potential changes to other colors, while providing safe synthetic and natural colors. https://lnkd.in/gu-CHAKh
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Giovanni Quaratesi
"The warehouse club space is dominated by three major players—Costco Wholesale, Sam’s Clubs, and BJ’s Wholesale Club. Costco Wholesale Corporation is headquartered in Issaquah, WA and leads the category. The company is a descendent of Price Club, founded in 1976 in San Diego, and a second chain called Costco, whose first location debuted in Seattle in 1983. The two merged in 1993 as PriceCostco and transitioned to simply Costco in 1997. Near the end of last year, Costco had over 870 locations globally, including 600 in 47 U.S. states and Puerto Rico and another 180 in 9 Canadian provinces. As of the end of its latest fiscal year in September 2023, Costco had revenues of $237.7 billion. It ranked third in the National Retail Federation’s 2023 ranking of the top 100 U.S. retailers, behind Walmart and Amazon. Costco garners 8 percent of U.S. grocery sales, translating to a strong $1,746 in sales per square foot, according to analyst dunnhumby, and it accounts for 25 percent of its customers’ grocery wallet. More than two-thirds (67 percent) of its customers feel a strong emotional connection to the brand." Full article by Produce Blue Book #futureoffood #futureofretail
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Thom King
https://lnkd.in/gzdsPiVB - Thom King, chief innovations officer at Icon Foods, Portland, OR, says that functional carbonated beverages with prebiotic fibers, such as poppi, OLIPOP PBC, Mighty Pop and Perfy, have benefited. Beverages containing electrolytes also have reaped the benefits of clean label interest. “Nutrient-dense, high protein, ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages are also growing with the clean label trend,” King notes. “Many are more than 30 grams of protein per serving, with no added sugars, prebiotic fibers, as well as some with greens.” He suggests that RTD, clean label, protein meal replacement beverages are a big trend that will continue to grow. Icon Foods is here to help you clean up your ingredient declaration and nutritional fact panel with sweeteners, fibers, sweetening systems, and sweetness modulator all design to make deep clean cuts to #addedsugar
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Gary Plassmeyer
Why is the CPG journey from inception to consumer so freaking difficult?? So many hurdles to overcome and battle through... The system is broken and we have been trying to figure out how to build some kind of a road map that allows founders to at least have an idea of what is coming. After talking to 100's of founders and industry experts we have compiled the beginnings of what we feel should be able to help, we are calling it SKU Trails. This info is straight from the source and from our own experiences. We simply laid it out in a way that we feel can at least start to shed some light on the journey of CPG products. We've worked on this layout with a few founders and their brands already (including our own) and its been invaluable. Gonna start sharing the madness and we encourage any and all feedback as we do. The ULTIMATE goal is to help the ecosystem and improve the chance of brand success! Jonny Boyarsky Tim Xenos Catapult Commercialization Services Trevor Davis #cpg #founder #journey
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