Missouri-based Greenlight is Growing April 2, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments When Cannabis Business Executive profiled Greenlight in September 2022, the MSO was flying under the radar in three states – Missouri, Arkansas, and West Virginia – with two more – Illinois and South Dakota – about to open up. Founded… Read More→
Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots March 27, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the… Read More→
Root & Bloom’s House of Startups March 18, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Salisbury, Massachusetts-based Root & Bloom is a locally and independently owned producer of quality cannabis products whose relatively recent entrance into a quickly maturing Massachusetts market has resulted in a string of achievements that include a steady increase in the… Read More→
A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders March 12, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under… Read More→
Cannabist CEO David Hart on ‘Sweating the Assets’ February 20, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight 1 Comment Cannabis Business Executive has covered New York-based Columbia Care (NEO: CBST) (OTCQX: CBSTF) (FSE: 3LP) many times over the years, including lengthy profiles in late 2021 with co-founder Nicholas Vita, and in September of last year with then Chief Commercial… Read More→
Connecticut Flower Supply Remains Spotty – UPDATED February 13, 2024 Tom Hymes Connecticut, News & Insights 0 Comments We are midway through February, and while the availability of raw flower in Connecticut’s dispensaries has improved slightly, it has also settled into a hit-or-miss proposition that seems to depend on where you live. It is rare these days to… Read More→
BDSA Augurs Cautious Optimism for 2024 December 27, 2023 Tom Hymes News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments As 2023 ends, the focus of the cannabis industry shifts to 2024 and the trends that will determine the health of individual markets, specific market sectors, and the overall industry, which could possibly see movement at the federal level in… Read More→
FundCanna CEO Adam Stettner Sees a Resilient Cannabis Industry October 17, 2023 Tom Hymes Banking, Finance & Real Estate, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments A lot has happened (or almost happened) since CBE profiled FundCanna in January, including an HHS recommendation to reschedule cannabis and the SAFER Banking Act advancing out of the Senate Banking Committee. Of course, during that same period, the cost… Read More→
Oregon Cannabis PSA: A Little Grace on Retailer Tax Compliance Requirements September 21, 2023 AggregatedNews Oregon, Taxes 0 Comments By Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken It’s been a minute since we wrote about the new OLCC tax compliance rules for retailers. These temporary rules require all retailers to certify tax compliance via the Oregon Department of Revenue (DOR) in… Read More→
Columbia Care Picks Up the Pieces Post-Cresco September 12, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments It is almost an understatement to say that a lot has happened to New York-based Columbia Care Inc. (NEO: CCHW) (OTCQX: CCHWF) (FSE: 3LP) since Cannabis Business Executive last profiled the company in November 2021. Four months after that story… Read More→
Dama Financial CEO Patrick O’Boyle on Building an End-to-End Solution August 8, 2023 Tom Hymes Banking, Finance & Real Estate, News & Insights 0 Comments San Bruno, California-based Dama Financial has provided essential banking services to the cannabis industry since it was founded in 2016. As the industry has developed, however, the company realized that it needed to become more of a full-service financial provider,… Read More→
BeLeaf Medical Settles Into Adult-Use July 18, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Missouri, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments It has been six months since Missouri made the same transition many other states have undertaken to integrate adult-use cannabis sales into an existing medical cannabis marketplace, and from all accounts, the state is still in a honeymoon phase recording… Read More→
Cannabis Xpress CEO Chris Jones Keeps it Simple May 1, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Retail 1 Comment Utilizing a strategy that puts a road-less-traveled philosophy into literal practice, Toronto-based Cannabis Xpress has placed its current 14 (soon to be 15) cannabis retail stores in less-populated areas of Ontario that other retailers have all but ignored. The build-them-where-they-ain’t… Read More→
The Solution for THC Obsession is Right Under Our Noses April 19, 2023 Tom Hymes Best Practices, News & Insights 0 Comments As often happens in life, the solution or cure for something out of whack is sitting right in front of us waiting to be found if only we can see it. In the case of trying to figure out how… Read More→
Native Roots’ Buck Dutton on Creating Effective Marketing Strategies March 6, 2023 Tom Hymes Marketing, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Once thought to be an easy sell, hitting a cannabis home run in the legal market has turned out to be a challenging pastime for practitioners of the marketing arts, no matter the breadth and depth of experience they bring… Read More→