🤓 All About The Emerging Brands Food Lab

The Emerging Brands Food Lab, a new women-founder focused food and beverage accelerator program, kicked off today. 

The month-long, hybrid program will engage founders on topics ranging from scaling production and distribution to fundraising tactics and financing growth; it has been put together by law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s food and beverage practice in partnership with its in-house initiative, Project W.

This first cohort includes 12 food, beverage and pet brand founders such as Tiffani Neal (Barlow’s Foods), Hema Reddy (WunderEggs by Crafty Counter), Diana Rios (Jarabe Gourmet Pops), Yasameen Sajady (Maazah), Elizabeth Raymond (NoBull Burger), Sabah Ashraf (House of Kajaana) and more. 

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Spring retail resets mean that the distribution news continues to flow. This week we highlighted a range of recent gains as brands enter and expand within Walmart, Whole Foods and more. Here are the highlights:

🍍 Daily Harvest has grown its footprint to 25,800 points of distribution across the country less than a year after it entered physical retail following this week’s announcement that select products will roll out to Target shelves across California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Washington State

🐟 Tinned fish titan Fishwife announced it has secured national placement at select Whole Foods stores and introduced two new items – Albacore Tuna in Olive Oil and Albacore Tuna in Spicy Olive Oil – as exclusives to the retailer through June.

🍓 Kid-focused nutrition products maker Yumi announced it has expanded its bars and puff products to Walmart stores nationwide, bringing its total door count to 5,000 since its launch in late 2022. 

Nosh Insiders can access the full roundup here.

• News of a meaty merger from Amylu Foods and Klement’s Sausage Company
• Insight behind the factors driving the downturn in funding for DTC-brands
• Why Amazon is closing its San Fransisco grocery fulfillment center 
• Details on a new partnership between UberEats and a major grocery delivery platform

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