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What Drives Sustainable Relationships and Sustainable Brands?
https://calbizjournal.com/what-drives-sustainable-relationships-and-sustainable-brands
What does the natural products business look like through a pandemic?
https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/what-does-the-natural-products-business-look-like-now-in-the-covid-19-pandemic
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2020 in Dietary Supplements
Here at the end of 2020, we’re looking back at some of our favorite discoveries of the year in some of the sectors we serve—in this second post of the series, the health and wellness sector, with a focus on dietary supplements. With the COVID-19 pandemic making personal health a topic of daily concern worldwide,… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2020 in Pet
Here at the end of 2020, we’re looking back at some of our favorite discoveries of the year in some of the sectors we serve. In this final post of the series, we look at the pet and animal category. As it changed so many things, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the pet industry. If the… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2020 in Food and Beverage
Here at the end of a disrupted and disruptive year, we’re looking back with gratitude at some of the good things of the year. Specifically, in this post and following, we’ll be examining some of our favorite discoveries of the year in each of the sectors we serve, in our second annual series on innovative and disruptive brands of… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Should I Build an In-house Agency?
These days, marketing requires brands to be highly responsive and integrated in their approach, able to generate the perfect social post at the perfect time or to push updates to their software on a daily and hourly basis. This challenge, among other factors, has driven an increasing number of consumer brands to shift their marketing… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
A Regenerative Supply Chain
More and more, when we eat, we look for food that meets a certain profile: what we might call, following the science writer Jo Robinson, “eating on the wild side.” In a previous generation, savvy consumers looked for food produced by human intervention through modern science, food that was hygienic, safe, predictable, and nutritionally fortified. Unfortunately,… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Brandcrumbs: Brand Strength = Facts + Convictions
(This is part of a series of ongoing posts we’re calling Brandcrumbs, which are bits and pieces of branding advice left over from our regular conversations about real-world brand positioning challenges.) I reset two internet passwords this week. I feel more secure now. Better than that, I feel strong—because I treated my password resets like a brand… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
MarketPlace and SupplySide’s Education Series 2020
In the fall of 2019, we conducted a survey to uncover insights into what consumers want in a supplement brand. These findings were presented at the SupplySide West conference in Las Vegas. To better understand how COVID-19 has affected supplement consumers, we recently conducted a follow-up survey. Our CMO Tracy Landau shared these findings in… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
The Impact of COVID-19 on Supplement Consumers
To better understand how COVID-19 has affected supplement consumers, MarketPlace conducted a study that reveals a perceived link between immunity and gut health. Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
5 Steps to Feeding 9 Billion
9,000,000,000. Nine billion. If you pay attention to news about food and the environment, you’re probably used to hearing that number, which represents the likely size of the global population by the middle of the century, up two billion from where we are now. The biggest concern about this growth is how the planet will… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Color, Food, and the Story of Shrimp
Typically, I’m neither for nor against shrimp. This morning, though, I felt very deeply about them. On my drive to work, I listened to a podcast. The specific episode of this podcast deals with color—its nature, how we experience it, why it matters, etc. As color is a crucial issue for many of our partners… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Brandcrumbs: the “Authentic” Brand Position Isn’t What it Is (is it?)
(This is the first in a series of ongoing posts we’re calling Brandcrumbs, which are bits and pieces of branding advice left over from our regular conversations about real-world brand positioning challenges.) I do not like “it is what it is.” Because “it is what it is” means nothing. Because it means everything. It means that you… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Brandcrumbs: Your Marketing Word of the Year Should be “Culture”
(This is part of a series of ongoing posts we’re calling Brandcrumbs, which are bits and pieces of branding advice left over from our regular conversations about real-world brand positioning challenges.) Like many in the branding and marketing world, we use the word “culture” a lot. We say things like “a successful company needs to create a… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>