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PDR Expands to North Texas, Leveraging Two Decades of CPG Logistics Expertise
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 17, 2024
With the addition of a forthcoming facility in Dallas-Fort Worth, Packaging Distribution Resources' portfolio now totals more than 600,000 square feet across the U.S.. The New Jersey-based company serves industries from consumer packaged goods to nutritional supplements, beauty and personal care, home goods, and e-commerce.
by Lance Murray |
Oct 6, 2023
It's national pasta month. The Texas mother, author, and philanthropist—married to Matthew McConaughey—has partnered with the Dallas-connected "better-for-you" pasta brand launched by Arcadia Biosciences. To entice families, it offers a "clean-plate guarantee."
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by David Seeley |
Aug 18, 2022
Dave's Gourmet is known for its super hot Dave's Insanity Sauce, created by Founder Dave Hirshkop (AKA the “Brigadier of Burn”). Now, after getting a strategic investment from Gourmerica Inc. in 2021—along with a new president, David Neuman—Dave's is in the pink. Literally.
The company waded knee-deep into one of the biggest TikTok memes of the summer—'Pink Sauce,' a much-parodied creation from Miami influencer Chef Pii—by partnering to give it an official international CPG launch.
The company waded knee-deep into one of the biggest TikTok memes of the summer—'Pink Sauce,' a much-parodied creation from Miami influencer Chef Pii—by partnering to give it an official international CPG launch.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 4, 2022
SKU Dallas set up shop in North Texas in 2020, partnering with DFW CPG as a local arm of the Austin-based CPG-focused accelerator. It's graduated 12 companies since then, including local plant-based jerky brand All Y’alls Foods, along with Texas-based mmmpanadas and Meli’s Monster Cookies.
Now it's announced its third lineup of CPG startups. All female-founded, they range from a Brooklyn sexual wellness and body product company to a California-based Vietnamese cold-brew coffee brand.
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CEO Rob Wilson and President Duwayne Miller, co-founders of Shavelogic [Photo: Shavelogic.com]
Dallas’ Shavelogic Hones Its Edge With $100 Million in New Growth Capital
by Quincy Preston | Sep 17, 2021
The cutting-edge razor brand introduced a new shaving system last year, after a decade-plus of R&D, more than 150 global patents, and legal battles with Gillette. Now Shavelogic plans to expand innovation and market reach to upgrade the shave.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 30, 2021
Poppi continues to get the Hollywood treatment after signing a deal with Rohan Oza on "Shark Tank" in 2018. Some big pop culture names—The Chainsmokers, 24kGoldn, Kygo, Kevin Love, Ellie Goulding, Olivia Munn, and Nicole Scherzinger—are joining in the beverage brand's latest funding round, along with Oza's CAVU Ventures and a group of social media influencers.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 8, 2021
Sow Good last month announced its entry into the global freeze-dried food market by changing its stock symbol and name from Black Ridge Oil and Gas.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 28, 2020
The Texas indoor farm would be the startup's third climate-controlled, solar-powered facility that grows produce sustainably and locally. CEO Mark Schulze says Revol's high-tech greenhouses will make it the largest producer of indoor lettuce by the end of 2021.
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DFW CPG to Support the ‘Nation’s First Consumer Products Accelerator’ Coming Soon to Dallas-Fort Worth
by Alex Edwards | Jul 13, 2020
SKU DFW is an eight-week program being kicked off this fall by former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb. Later-stage startups focused on consumer packaged goods can apply now for the chance to receive best-in-class curriculum taught by top CPG leaders.
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by Kathryn Chavez |
Sep 20, 2019
Restaurant mogul/innovator/entrepreneur Phil Romano and Four Corners Brewing Co-founder George Esquivel share (real) advice. It was a 40-minute master class.
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