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Chomps: Building a Workforce with a Deeper Sense of Ownership

April 27, 2020

According to recent studies, more than two-thirds of all employees in the United States are “disengaged” with their current job and employer. Disengaged employees can negatively affect businesses in different ways. These employees generally have low motivation levels, are disinterested in solving problems and helping the company achieve its goals and ambitions, and do not feel connected to the wider company culture. Employee disengagement can also lead to toxic workplace cultures and...

Bhoomi Cane Water: A Brand Guided by a Powerful Social Mission

April 19, 2020

The famous American writer and one of our most inspiring environmental figures, Henry David Thoreau once wrote that “goodness is the only investment that never fails.” That bit of “Waldonian” wisdom certainly contrasts with prevailing business practices, perhaps best summed up by the free-market economist Milton Friedman who said: “There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” Today, the average consumer...

Four Sigmatic: Believing in the Power of an Innovative Idea

April 15, 2020

Would you believe it if we told you that one of the bestselling instant coffee mixes on Amazon is actually a coffee replacement product made mostly from dried mushrooms? Last year, in fact, an instant coffee mix made from Lion´s Mane and Chaga mushrooms actually outsold well known instant coffee products made by Starbucks, Folgers, and other well-established corporations within the larger coffee industry. Just a decade ago, the idea of drinking a mushroom-based coffee might have been more...

Amazi Foods: Growing and Redefining Agricultural Supply Chains

April 14, 2020

[vc_row disable_element="yes"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Amazi Foods is a Certified Paleo health food brand that has gone beyond the fair trade model to connect directly with smallholder farmers in Uganda. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" bg_type="image" bg_override="1" parallax_content="parallax_content_value" first_background_type="image" first_background_image="85138"...

4th and Heart: Leveraging the Possibilities of Ghee

April 11, 2020

While past decades saw butter consumption drop considerably as Americans replaced natural butter with margarine products made from cheap vegetable oils and emulsifiers, today millions of consumers are returning to more natural diets based on real foods, including butter. A 2014 study found that Americans consumed around 23 sticks of butter per capita each year, which amounted to almost 900,000 tons of butter consumed nationwide. That figure has only grown as the $2 billion butter industry...

Lesser Evil: A Health Food Brand Embracing Multifaceted Sustainability

April 8, 2020

Today, most major food producers, distributors, and corporations out there understand that the average consumer has concerns about where their food comes from, how healthy it is, and the impact it has on society and the wider environment. Even if they´re not fully dedicated to fair wages for migrant farm workers or cutting out trace glyphosate from foods we eat, most people do want healthy food that didn´t require burning down swaths of the Amazon rainforest in order to source primary...

HU Kitchen: Self-Funding and Strategic Investors to Stay True to the Company Ethos

April 7, 2020

Like so many people in the health and wellness industry, Jordan Brown, Jason Karp, and Jessica Karp, the founders of HU Kitchen, came to the decision to start their company start their own health food company through personal experience with healthier eating. For them, a healthier diet and lifestyle was all about “getting back to being human.” Recent estimates find that at least 60 percent of the American diet consists of highly processed foods, including a combination of products that...

Yumi Yumi: Healthy Snacks

April 7, 2020

Generally, when we think of countries suffering from obesity, we think of places like the United States where the industrialization of food systems occurred half a century ago. In the U.S., entire generations have grown up with highly processed food as the "nutritional" basis of their daily diet. Today, however, the country suffering from the worst levels of obesity is not the United States, but Nauru, a small island in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, the ten countries with the highest levels of...

Yumi Yumi: Snacks Saludables

April 7, 2020

Generalmente, cuando pensamos en países que sufren de la obesidad, pensamos en lugares como los Estados Unidos donde la industrialización de los sistemas alimentarios ocurrió hace medio siglo. En este país, generaciones enteras han crecido con la comida altamente procesada como base “nutricional” de su dieta cotidiana. Hoy en día, sin embargo, el país que sufre los peores niveles de obesidad no es los Estados Unidos, sino Nauru, una pequeña isla en el océano Pacifico. De hecho, los diez países...

Pyure: Organic Sweetener Brand with a Focus on Supply Chain Integrity

April 6, 2020

In the year 1700, sugar was a commodity only the rich could afford, and average, global, per capita consumption stood at about four pounds per person per year. Two hundred years later, people were consuming over 90 pounds of sugar per year. Today, the average American consumer easily consumes more than 150 pounds of sugar per day, or just under a half-pound of sugar daily. Interestingly enough, diabetes continues to rise in connection with our increasing sugar intake. Today, roughly 10.5...