Looking forward to being back for a second straight year at Business of Cannabis, especially now that New York has 194 adult-use dispensaries open across the State.
𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:
🌆 Latest on the competitive landscape, How Retail Dispensaries (The Travel Agency: A Cannabis Store, Gotham, Housing Works, Dazed Cannabis, CONBUD NY, Happy Munkey LLC, The Flowery, Silver Therapeutics, etc) are doing vs. MSOs/ROs (Registered Organizations)
💻 Tech Stack for operators (who's winning market share)
🏪 Upcoming dispensary openings
🍬 NY-based brands (Airo Brands, Dank By Definition, ayrloom, Edie Parker, House of Puff Inc., Naturae ) vs. multi-state brands (1906, Aster, Cookies, Fernway, Grön, Heavy Hitters, Jetty Extracts, Kiva Brands, Inc., LEVEL, Old Pal, Rove Brand, Wana Brands, Wyld)
💲 $75.8M in August 2024 Sales: Flower ($26.5M), Vape ($20.4M), Pre-Roll ($14.5M), Edible ($9.7M) (https://lnkd.in/ejTkxqvS)
💰 Latest on VC-backed NY-based companies (Lucid Green, Flyers Cocktail Company, Frontier Risk, Surfside, Prelude)
🔬 Lab Testing (ACT LAB, Kaycha Labs, Certified Testing & Data, Green Analytics, LLC) since we haven't seen the same negative headlines as in other states, though it is early days
🍷 I typically try to organize smaller gatherings around conferences, so if there's interest in attending/co-hosting (likely will be for Monday, 11/11), let me know
https://lnkd.in/eb83vZXk
Speaker announcement 🗣
Dai Truong joined Arlington Capital Advisors in 2021 and is focused on growing the firm’s cannabis practice. Prior to joining Arlington, Dai served as VP Corporate Development for Left Coast Ventures, a diversified cannabis and hemp company specializing in cultivation, manufacturing, brand development and distribution. Dai has held various corporate development and investment positions at MedMen, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Austin Ventures and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Dai graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Looking forward to Dai's insights on November 12.
🎫 👉https://lnkd.in/gMZz899y