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How Ilana Rubin Dvir Helps Drive Growth for Today’s Buzziest Food and Beverage Brands Through Thoughtful PR

A seasoned lifestyle, luxury, food and beverage, and entertainment media specialist, Ilana Rubin Dvir leads the fast growing lifestyle division at Jennifer Bett Communications (JBC), a media relations firm approaching PR in a way that speaks directly to consumers with meaningful narratives and elevates brands and founders through strategic thought leadership. Since JBC’s launch in […]

CATEGORIES Beverage
PUBLISHED November 5, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities with the Founders of Square Root

Ellie and Pat O’Brien are the founders of Square Root, a Nutnola and Nutnola Butter company that was inspired by Ellie’s litany of autoimmune diseases. Frustrated by constantly feeling left out with dietary restrictions and by the notable absence of any similar products on the market that checked all the necessary boxes, they set out […]

CATEGORIES Food
PUBLISHED November 3, 2020
AUTHOR Ellie and Pat O'Brien

How Ferm Fatale’s Founder Julie Cielo Quite Literally Brought the Brand Back From the Dead

Some predict trends, others use AI to foresee what’s ahead for the industry. For Julie Cielo, the Founder & CEO of Ferm Fatale, the world’s first zero net sugar probiotic mocktail in classic cocktail flavors, she takes a different approach. She’s not your typical beverage entrepreneur. She doesn’t come from the beverage industry and launched […]

CATEGORIES Beverage
PUBLISHED October 28, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

ForceForward: Why Nona Lim Chose to Slow Down Innovation with Trailblazing Namesake Bone Broth Brand

ForceForward is a video interview series from ForceBrands that highlights what businesses and teams look like tomorrow. Nona Lim’s early career experience in meal kits coupled with her Asian heritage helped launch a product that became a trailblazer in its category. As one of the first refrigerated bone broths in the country, Lim’s namesake brand […]

Scarlett Leung On Why the Pandemic Is ‘Primetime’ for Sugarbreak’s Launch

In today’s busy consumer brand universe, very rarely does a product come along that’s unlike any other and first-of-its-kind. Enter Sugarbreak, a newly launched brand that’s a blend of online retail, CPG, and healthcare, born out of a customer need. We caught up with Scarlett Leung to learn more about the company and what inspired […]

CATEGORIES Food
PUBLISHED October 4, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Pursuing Your Passion with Wildland Organics’ Founder Marisa Quintanilla

Did you know that a Biz2Credit study revealed the average yearly revenue of Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. increased from $258,702 in 2016-2017 to $327,189 in 2017-2018? And that more than 4.7 Hispanic-owned businesses — when combined — contribute to more than $700 billion to the U.S. economy annually? It only seems fitting then that […]

CATEGORIES Beauty
PUBLISHED September 29, 2020
AUTHOR Stefanie Schwalb

Fire Dept. Coffee: Merging Two Passionate Audiences With One Strong Brand

The majority of all American adults drink coffee on a regular basis — more than 150 million people, according to studies. That creates an extraordinarily wide base of potential customers. It also creates a crowded marketplace. How can a brand stand out in such a competitive category? We caught up with Luke Schneider, Founder and […]

CATEGORIES Beverage
PUBLISHED September 29, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Inspiration and Innovation with Naturalicious’ Founder and CEO Gwen Jimmere

Necessity is the mother of invention, according to Plato. But we would argue it can also foster some serious motivation and creativity — as proven by Naturalicious Founder and CEO Gwen Jimmere. To call her a trailblazer would be a mild description. In addition to being the first African-American woman to own a patent for natural […]

CATEGORIES Beauty
PUBLISHED August 31, 2020
AUTHOR Stefanie Schwalb

ForceForward: BluePrint’s Erica Huss and Zoë Sakoutis On Their Next Big Venture in CPG

ForceForward is a video interview series from ForceBrands that highlights what businesses and teams look like tomorrow. Erica Huss and Zoë Sakoutis weren’t on the hunt for the next big trend in CPG. Category trailblazers with BluePrint cold pressed juice, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in 2012, both entrepreneurs were busy producing their wellness […]

Madeline Haydon of nutpods Shares Her Unique Leadership Journey

Born to Lead is ForceBrands’ original leadership series that highlights industry thought leaders across CPG. In this episode of Born to Lead, we caught up with Madeline Haydon, Founder and CEO of plant-based coffee creamer nutpods. What makes Haydon’s leadership journey so unique is that she’s building a consumer brand in a highly competitive category […]

CATEGORIES Beverage
PUBLISHED August 2, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Pacifica’s Founder Brook Harvey-Taylor Looks Ahead to the Next 25 Years in Clean Beauty

A pioneer in the clean beauty movement, Pacifica has been around for nearly 25 years. Cruelty-free and vegan, the brand has been carefully built through the decades by closely listening to its growing consumer base and staying true to its core values rooted in compassion. Founder Brook Harvey-Taylor and her husband Billy Taylor launched the brand […]

CATEGORIES Beauty
PUBLISHED July 27, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

Operational Challenges and Navigations with Siddhi Ops’ COO David McCormick

David McCormick runs operations for both Siddhi Ops, an outsourced operations execution firm for entrepreneurial food and beverage brands, as well as Siddhi Capital, a newly launched venture capital arm of the business. We caught up with him to learn more about where investments are being made right now, operational challenges caused by COVID-19, how […]

CATEGORIES Food
PUBLISHED July 19, 2020
AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer

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