If you don’t have a private label brand, you’re dead in the water, according to Daymon’s Private Brand Intelligence Report. Currently, 81% of shoppers are buying private brand products on their shopping trips, and 53% shop at stores specifically for their private brand (1). As transparency continues to be extremely...

Costa Mesa, CA. —  Mother's Market & Kitchen, a natural and organic foods retailer, has donated $4,000 to Beyond Pesticides, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. Funds were collected from...

Andrew Balducci, owner of the famous Balducci's specialty foods and produce market, died on March 22, 2018 at the age of 92 of acute leukemia. Born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to Maria Miscioscia and Louis Balducci, he spent his childhood in Corato, Italy, before emigrating back to the United States at the...

Editor’s note: This month we offer a tip for our readers who want to get distribution for their brands. To get your brand on a retailer’s shelf you need to convince them your product will help them make more money. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast. First, you must have...

After some 30 years, Sobsey’s Produce in Hoboken, NJ, has changed hands. Read one woman’s appreciation to learn what a quality retail relationship feels like to a customer and how it can’t be replicated by a behemoth. I first heard about Sobsey’s in church. My husband and I had just...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Josh Hendrix of CV Sciences talks to Laura Sheehan, founder and owner of Full Circle Market based in Winchester, KY.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/nqQFE1Y84lM"][/vc_column][/vc_row] Paid for and provided by CV Sciences...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Stuart Tomc, VP of human nutrition at CV Sciences, talks to the folks at Cambridge Naturals, in Cambridge, MA. A pioneer among natural product retailers, Cambridge Naturals continues to lead the pack, providing customers with hemp-derived CBD.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/iWno__mmhYM"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This promotional video was provided and paid for by CV Sciences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

Natural products can now be found on retailer’s shelves across all channels. In fact, mainstream natural product sales have outpaced natural products sales by natural retailers. This also means more opportunities for top-selling natural brands to be represented in a greater number of stores across multiple retail channels. While this...

Asheville, NC — With news from the National Center for Health Statistics stating that in 2015 the life expectancy for Americans was in decline for the first time in two decades, Earth Fare has decided to take steps to help Americans get healthier.  Earth Fare is announcing a store expansion,...

Natural shoppers—whether they are tree-hugging greenies, health fanatics, nutrition nuts (in a good way) fitness enthusiasts or youth obsessed—are usually people who have a genuine, vested interest in wellbeing. With a pre-existing audience keen to learn more about the subject and the personal benefits, natural retailers are an ideal venue...