LeafLink Refocused (UPDATED) December 11, 2023 Tom Hymes News & Insights, Science and Technology, Spotlight, Supply Chain 0 Comments 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.… Read More→
Where the Cannabis C-Suite is Missing The Mark on Automation November 2, 2023 Nohtal Partansky News & Insights 0 Comments By Nohtal Partansky, Co-Founder, CEO of Sorting Robotics Throughout the cannabis industry, automation has become a critical driving force for business growth, efficiency, and sustainability. Yet, as the green rush continues to expand, the cannabis C-Suite often finds itself facing… Read More→
Lucid Green’s QR Code Offers a Doorway To Efficiency July 11, 2023 Tom Hymes Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Co-founded in 2018 by data veterans Larry Levy and Paul Botto, who also serve as its CEO and President, respectively, Lucid Green introduced a touchless inventory management solution for the cannabis industry via its LucidID QR code – The Intelligent… Read More→
Brand Market Expansion: Negotiating IP Licensing Deals – What’s Involved April 12, 2023 Erik Ott Intellectual Property, Marketing, Spotlight 0 Comments The cannabis industry has reached peak expansion mode as brands and licensed operators across the states form IP licensing agreements to enter new markets. While there are many different approaches to brand expansion, as we have begun to document in… Read More→
Supply Chain Pain: How Growers Can Find Relief, Part One December 4, 2022 Ryan Douglas Cultivation 0 Comments Commercial cannabis growers can decrease their susceptibility to supply chain disruptions by making strategic changes to how they operate their cultivation business. These modifications don't need to be drastic, expensive, or risky. In fact, they should be the opposite. By… Read More→
How Old Fashioned Tactics Can Stomp Out Illegal Pot Shops In NYC October 26, 2022 Pam Chmiel Black Market, New York, Uncategorized 0 Comments NYC has one of the world's most sophisticated underground cannabis supply chain networks making it nearly impossible to eradicate their activity. This puts legal entrepreneurs at a competitive disadvantage in market share and price wars because of the higher taxes,… Read More→
Ten Lessons from Nineteen States: Making A Better Recreational Market September 5, 2022 Paul Penney News & Insights 0 Comments By Paul Penney The state of marijuana laws in the United States has changed considerably over the last two decades. Only 13 states had made marijuana use lawful for medicinal reasons at the time President Barack Obama took office, and… Read More→
Cannabiz Owners: As Pandemic Eases Ditch Big Tech Partners March 7, 2022 Steve Gormley Op-Ed, Science and Technology 0 Comments By: Steve Gormley Opening: COVID-19 has both exacerbated and exposed cracks in many regional cannabis markets that are suffering the same woes as other small entrepreneurial enterprises. Many small to mid-size cannabis companies are facing a moment in which large… Read More→
Colorado marijuana companies take a hit from global supply-chain issues February 18, 2022 AggregatedNews Supply Chain 0 Comments “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… Read More→
IM Cannabis is Building a Brand-based Supply Chain for the EU (and Maybe the World) February 10, 2022 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Spotlight 0 Comments I originally was scheduled to interview Rinat Efrima, the newly appointed Israeli CEO for IM Cannabis Corp. (CSE:IMCC) (NASDAQ:IMCC), or IMC, but when I jumped on the call I was greeted by CEO and founder Oren Shuster, who informed me… Read More→
What’s In a Number? Why You Should Be Thinking About Your ‘Perfect Order Index’ December 6, 2021 Colton Griffin Supply Chain 0 Comments 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… Read More→
The Exponential Value of a ‘Retail-Centric’ Multi-Vertical Strategy May 24, 2021 Margot Micallef Op-Ed, Opinions, Retail, Supply Chain 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Half of Cannabis Executives Slash Revenue Forecasts Due to Coronavirus, Reallocating Marketing Budgets to Digital Media and Virtual Events June 30, 2020 Rob Meagher Coronavirus, Marketing, Spotlight 0 Comments New study quantifies the impact of COVID-19, with 56% of executives moving marketing spend to online events and digital media and 39% planning to scale-back staffing. Cannabis executives report slashing budgets and significant disruption to suppliers and services during the… Read More→
Essential and Rigorous: Why Cannabis Will Emerge Stronger Post-Covid May 9, 2020 Kim Rael Op-Ed, The Buck Stops Here 0 Comments COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across all sectors of the economy and businesses are struggling through unprecedented disruption. The cannabis industry is not an island—we’ve been heavily disrupted too. We are concerned about supply chain, short- and long-term impact on… Read More→
How to make sure your cannabis is the real deal? May 4, 2020 John Shearman Compliance and Regulations, Intellectual Property, Marketing 0 Comments This same question is asked by many consumers across various categories of products we consume everyday. Do I really know the chicken I’m about to buy is raised on a free-range farm? Is the medicine I’m about to take authentic?… Read More→