Wholesale Cannabis Industry News
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The Cannabis Industry’s $4 Billion Silent Partner
Author – John Manlove, Chief Executive Officer – Apex Trading Nobody wins when a brand is quietly financing its own retail partners. Ask a cannabis brand owner what keeps them up at night and you’ll often hear “competition” or “price compression” amongst the list of challenges. But one thing is constant among this list and…
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The Cost of the Status Quo in Wholesale Cannabis
Ask any wholesale brand where their money goes and they’ll point to facility, product, marketing, systems, and maybe compliance. Almost nobody points at the line item quietly bleeding out every single day: the revenue and cash you’re losing right now because nothing changed. The status quo feels free. A shared Google Sheet has no license…
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The Cannabis Industry Doesn’t Need More Data. It Needs Better Access To It.
Author – John Manlove, Chief Executive Officer – Apex Trading Cannabis has never had a data problem. Between Metrc, POS systems, e-commerce platforms, and wholesale marketplaces, the industry generates an enormous amount of information every single day: every transfer, every sale, every order. What it has had is an access problem. Data has been trapped…
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A Foretelling Glimpse Into Emerging and Mature Market Wholesale Cannabis Data
I and the leadership team at Apex Trading have been serving the cannabis industry ever since the first adult-use market came online in early 2014. Over the last 8 years we’ve seen new markets launch medical or adult-use programs and often the earliest of license holders benefit from strong market conditions with consumer demand outpacing…