Cultiva Wellness installed its first Wellness Pantry, what it calls the most technologically advanced automated dispensing unit on the market today, in suburban Miami. The Wellness Pantry is not your typical chips and soda vending machine. Complete with remote monitoring and operation, touchless payments and the use of blockchain technology to verify customers’ age, the…
Consumers Sweet on Cannabis Candies to Both Unwind, Recharge
Last month, Brightfield Group released its “U.S. Cannabis Distribution Report: Cannabis Candy May 2021,” a fitting prelude to the month of June, which is designated as Candy Month by the National Confectioners Association, the trade group that monitors and advocates for the confection industry. While cannabis candies are not to be consumed like candy, the…
Meet Fable: The Non-Alcoholic, Premium Botanical Cannabis Cocktail
BKKB Ventures recently launched Fable, a line of four cannabis-infused botanical beverages. The Fable brand offers consumers intentionally-crafted THC/CBD cocktails that draw inspiration from modern mixology, adding a premium cannabis product to the burgeoning alcohol-alternative beverage market. Available for purchase this coming July in select California dispensaries, lounges and delivery platforms, each 12-ounce bottle delivers…
Charlotte’s Web to Use In-Store Kiosks As Retail Rebounds
Just in time for post-pandemic consumers returning to in-store shopping for their health and wellness needs, Charlotte’s Web last week unveiled two retail innovations. The first is a first-to-market high tech, in-store kiosk that doubles as an educational resource for consumers. The second is a virtual learning lab created specifically for retail employees and managers…
Welcome Wellness With Happy Lane THC-Free CBD
Happy Lane is the latest offering from CV Sciences, makers of PlusCBD, America’s #1 selling natural CBD brand. Happy Lane products provide fun, effective CBD at an affordable retail price – perfect for young, and young at heart, consumers always on the go. The product line offers delicious CBD in its Cherry Jubilee Gummies…
Music Maker and Mogul DJ Khaled Releases Men’s CBD Grooming Line
Music mogul, business guru and Grammy Award-winning artist DJ Khaled, in partnership with Endexx Corp., last week debuted Blesswell, a new CBD-infused men’s grooming line, now available exclusively online. The sustainably sourced collection features 100% U.S. grown and processed hemp products that focus on a more natural approach to achieving the healthiest hair and skin.…
Pain Relieving Topicals, Oils Likely to Drive CBD Market Growth
Out of all cannabinoids, cannabidiol (CBD) is gaining in wide usage for therapeutic reasons because of its lack of psychoactive effects. Due to the increasing adoption of CBD-based products to treat ailments, the global cannabidiol market is anticipated to grow at a lucrative rate over the next several years. According to a February report from…
Sweet Earth Develops Proprietary CBD Cigarette
Vancouver, B.C.-based Sweet Earth Holdings Corp. has completed the development of a proprietary strain of CBD/hemp cigarettes along with Pure Products LLC that will be marketed, sold and distributed under the Sweet Earth Smooth Brand. The cigarettes will be sold as Turkish Blend and will be available on its website at sweethearthsmooth.com and at leading…
Maker High Purity Offering New Wholesale Financing
High Purity Natural Products, a division of Future Farm Technologies, announced recently that it is now offering financing options to wholesale customers. High Purity has partnered with leading fintech platform Lendica Corp. to implement the financing agreements with wholesale clients. “We are incredibly excited to be able to offer financing services to clients in need…
Some Big Bev Brokers Get Head Start With CBD
With a parade of new cannabidiol (CBD) products across a wide spectrum of forms and functions coming to market, the beverage market may be the sleeper CBD category. Large beverage companies are increasingly active in developing CBD beverages to wash into the mainstream. It’s not hard to figure out that beverages are an ideal way…
Gum Brings Flavor, Function With CBD, CBG
Mynd gum combines the plant-powered, endocannabinoid support of CBD and CBG tested for purity and potency, combined with other functional ingredients. Each piece delivers CBD and/or CBG in four functions and flavors: 20 mg CBD and 10 mg CBG in Berry flavor for focus; 10 mg CBD and 20 mg CBG in tropical for energy;…
CBD Bath Salts Help Soak Away Stress
Soak away holiday stress with CBD Living’s newest topical product, CBD Living Bath Salts, available in four luxurious scents – Relaxing Lavender, Soothing Eucalyptus, Refreshing Coconut Lime and Zenful Amber Bergamot. Each 16 oz tin contains 500 mg Nano CBD (about 7 mg CBD per heaping scoop). CBD Living Bath Salts are manufactured using CBD…
CBD Water Enhancer Packets
Urb’s nano CBD water enhancer packets are water soluble and are available in four delicious flavors: mango, blue razz, watermelon and lemon. Each packet contains approximately 10 mg of CBD, and less than 0.3% delta-9-THC. The packets are available for purchase online at LiftedMade.com and available for distribution to brick and mortar stores throughout the…
New CBD Skincare Line Has Celebrity Kristen Bell Doing ‘Happy Dance’
“Frozen,” “The Good Place” and “Veronica Mars” actress and New York Times best-selling children’s author Kristen Bell has also put her stamp on a CBD skincare line, Happy Dance, launched earlier this year with Cronos Group. Happy Dance is a new, clean, simple brand with a trio of high-quality, cruelty-free and vegan bath and…
Q&A: Marketing Data Expert’s Insights on Entering CBD Retail
CBD Retail Trends recently chatted with Casey Taylor, vice president of client development for market research firm CivicScience, about growing opportunities and strategies for brick-and-mortar retailers looking to join the CBD marketplace. Below are five topics excerpted from that conversation. CBD Retail Trends: Can you give us an idea if a smaller retailer is…
Podcast: CBD Strategies, Outlook for Retail Stores
CStore Decisions Senior Editor Thomas Mulloy, who also manages CSD’s companion website CBDRetailTrends.com, talks with Casey Taylor, vice president of client development for market research firm CivicScience about growing opportunities and strategies for brick-and-mortar retailers looking to join the CBD marketplace. CStore Decisions · CBD Market Insights With Casey Taylor of CivicScience
Yesway Adds Four New CBD Beverage Brands
C-store chain Yesway is making a big statement in the CBD space by adding four new packaged beverage brands with 14 new SKUs. The innovative convenience store chain now has the largest assortment of CBD beverages in the convenience store industry. The new brands being introduced are Kill Cliff, Defy, Weller and CBD Living Sparkling…
Arthritis Foundation Adds CBDMEDIC to Sponsor Roster
The CBDMEDIC brand has been designated by the Arthritis Foundation as an Impact Sponsor in 2020 and 2021. CBDMEDIC is the first and only CBD brand sold in the food mass drug channel to be designated as an Impact Sponsor of the Arthritis Foundation, recognizing its contribution to this important cause. The Arthritis Foundation,…
PlusCBD Launches Pet Product Line
PlusCBD maker CV Sciences has now launched PlusCBD Pet, a full line of hemp extracts formulated exclusively for dogs and cats. Made with the same trusted hemp extracts used in CV Sciences’ best-selling CBD products, PlusCBD Pet is available in 250mg and 500mg formats with pet friendly flavors – including beef, chicken, peanut butter and salmon,…
Smoker Friendly Expanding Solari CBD Offerings
Smoker Friendly will begin carrying the full line of Solari Hemp CBD products in all of its 160 stores in the U.S., the companies announced this week. The decision is based on the successful results over the past year that Smoker Friendly has experienced with the Solari brand, and the increased demand for quality CBD…
Circle-K to Add Wild By Nature CBD to Gulf Coast Shelves
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – California wellness and CBD brand Wild By Nature announced today its entrance into 150-plus Circle K convenience store locations within Florida and Alabama, with hundreds of more retail outlets on the horizon. With a focus on the convenience industry market, the company’s botanical-inspired collection of CBD tinctures, vaporizers and CBD-only…
Kill Cliff Recovery Drink Adds Another CBD Flavor
Kill Cliff, the clean energy drink company, just added a fourth CBD beverage to its already impressive arsenal – Strawberry Daze. Kill Cliff CBD recovery drink contains 125mg of broad-spectrum hemp extract to deliver 25mg of CBD benefits that your body deserves. Refuel and get your body back on track with electrolytes, B vitamins,…
New Happy Lane Products En Route to C-Stores
The company behind the PlusCBD product line, Cannabidiol (CBD) products maker and distributor CV Sciences, will soon launch its new Happy Lane product line — a non-GMO, hemp derived CBD offering manufactured with zero THC and formulated to rigorous standards for quality and verified by a third party laboratory for purity, strength and composition.…
Report: CBD Pet Market to Approach $400M by 2027
SAN FRANCISCO – The global cannabidial (CBD) pet market is expected to reach $399.2 million by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 40.3%, according to a new report by Grand View Research Inc. Increasing health expenditure and growing health concern among the owners of domesticated animals are driving the market, the report said. In…
Elevated Wellness Strikes Deal to Carry A88CBD Brand
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Alkaline Water Co.’s portfolio of CBD topical products and ingestibles will soon be available in Elevated Wellness’ retail locations and its e-commerce store. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., The Alkaline Water Co.’s brands include premium bottled alkaline water Alkaline88, flavor-infused waters A88 Infused and CBD infused products A88CBD. Elevated Wellness is an…