Wholesale Cannabis Industry News

There’s something in the air emanating from Portland’s beloved Multnomah Village neighborhood. It’s the scent of success and premium terpenes wafting out from Arcane Aromatics. Arcane Aromatics crafts 100% natural, ISO lab-tested terpenes and terpene formulations. You’ll find an array of undiluted and carrier-free terps. That means no added filler, thickeners, PG, VG, PEG, MCT,

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Summer is all but gone, yet we can make it last just a bit longer by revisiting the wholesale cannabis data for July. Each summary report is packed with flavor and will give us a B2B overview. You’ll know how extracts did in California, what’s up with medical flower in Maine, and so much more.

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Longtime Apex Trading client and Massachusetts cannabis industry staple Wemelco Industries just expanded their Nectar Brand with an elevating array of products sure to delight consumers. Want to learn more? Check out the overview of each cannabis product below: Nectar Daytime Tablets Looking for the perfect daytime pick-me-up for Massachusetts cannabis consumers? Nectar Daytime Tablets

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Summer is flying by as it often does, so let’s slow down a bit and take a look at the June 2024 Cannabis Reports.  These free reports give you an overview of key wholesale cannabis sales data categories. In them, you can see how prerolls did in Vermont, what’s the going rate for extracts across

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When it comes to wholesale cannabis technology, producers and brands have a lot to consider.  There are dozens if not 100s of options out there with regard to cannabis-related software solutions. You’ll find everything from larger all-in-one ERPs to providers focused on one specific part of the supply chain, such as cultivation.  Most cannabis brands

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Summer is here! The kids are out of school, the weather is getting warmer, and we have your free wholesale cannabis data insights for May 2024. Each informative report gives us glimpses of important wholesale cannabis data points. You’ll see how bulk flower did in Montana, what’s up with extracts nationally, or how AU did

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April has come and gone. Now, it’s time to take a look back at the wholesale cannabis data for one of the most important months to the industry. These informative reports will give us an idea of how flower sold in Vermont, how extracts performed in Alaska, and so much more. Further, we’ve added a

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Q1 has come and gone. Q2 is off and running, but what does the wholesale cannabis data for the last month of the quarter look like? The March 2024 snapshots will tell us. These reports will give us an idea of how bulk flower was selling in Maine, how prerolls did in Montana, and so

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Congratulations to all of the Boston 2024 NECANN Cup winners! We are especially proud of all the Massachusetts cannabis brands on Apex Trading that won this year, and there were quite a few of you. The 2024 NECANN Cup coincided with the March 22-23 NECANN Boston trade show. The cup was held using a third-party

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The end of Q1 is fast approaching, but how does the wholesale cannabis data for the middle month look? In the February 2024 snapshots, we’ll see how bulk flower did in Montana. How prerolls are moving in Maine, what’s up with extracts in Massachusetts, and so much more. What Can You Expect to See in

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Apex Trading and Cannabis Benchmarks have teamed up to crunch some 2023 cannabis data trends. Using three data sources – the Apex Trading anonymized platform wholesale data, Cannabis Benchmarks data, and the Massachusetts Cannabis Control data – we dove deep. We looked into historical retail and wholesale trends, current plant count, and pending licensee data.

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Where to Invest to Withstand the Inevitability of Wholesale Cannabis Price Compression Let’s begin with a very basic question.  If you’re a wholesale cannabis brand (cultivator, extractor, product manufacturer), has your pricing gone down since you entered the market?  For those of you in limited license markets or brand-new adult-use markets, you probably haven’t felt

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With 2023 a distant memory, it’s high time to see how the new year is kicking off with the wholesale cannabis data reports for January 2024. We’ll take a look at how prerolls are selling in California, how shatter is doing in Massachusetts, what’s up with bulk flower in Alaska, and where carts are trending

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The modus operandi of cannabis vape cartridge consumption is changing thanks in part to mode – makers of a first-of–its-kind device. The mode is so much more than just a cartridge battery and lets you dial in and adjust your dosage down to the milligram with up to 92% accuracy. What more, your mode connects

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2023 may have come to a close, but we still have a little of last year’s business to attend to and that is the December 2023 wholesale cannabis data reports . You may recall that last month, we added a new California view for wholesale cannabis product costs. With that, in addition to understanding how

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Christmas 2023 was fantastic. Not only because the Apex Trading team onboarded a couple dozen new cultivators, extractors, edibles manufacturers and dispensaries in the last month of the year. It also wasn’t that we continued to delight hundreds of wholesale cannabis producers across the United States with new time-saving features and unrivaled customer support. Those

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The Holidays are in full swing, and have we got a treat for you. In addition to our usual wholesale cannabis data reports for November 2023, we now have a view of the data for California. On top of finding out how flower is doing in Oregon, Vermont or Montana, how carts are selling Maine,

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Last weekend was a big deal for the Massachusetts and greater New England cannabis community. The 2023 Harvest Cup was held in Worcester, MA. Drawing entries from across the state in more than a dozen categories, the Harvest Cup is “the premier New England cannabis competition.” And, the question was, who would be the 2023

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We’re already in the back half of Autumn, the days are getting shorter, and we’re heading into the holiday season. With that, we’ve put together the October 2023 wholesale cannabis data reports. How did extracts do in Oregon? What’s going on with flower in Montana? Are carts still strong in Maine? What about prerolls across the

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Staying on top of your game in the cannabis industry feels like a 24-7 job. It doesn’t matter if you’re a cannabis retailer, cultivator, extractor, edibles manufacturer, or an ancillary business. However, top performers know you need a break every once in a while, and there’s nothing like a good weed book to help you

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Croptober is here, fall is in full swing, and we have the September 2023 wholesale cannabis data snapshot in from the harvest. What’s up in Montana? What’s down in Vermont? How is wholesale flower in Maine doing? Did prerolls stay strong in Oregon? How about cart prices across the nation? Our wholesale cannabis data snapshots

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Tucked in along the banks of the Blackstone River just a few hundred feet from the Rhode Island border, you’ll find Ideal Craft Cannabis, one of the only fully vertical social equity companies in Massachusetts. Ideal Craft is committed to cultivating high-quality cannabis products for the discerning Massachusetts cannabis market. With years of experience and

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Fall is just around the corner along with Croptober, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. We have the August wholesale cannabis data snapshots to review and this month we’ve added a couple of new views – Montana and Vermont. What’s the cost of wholesale flower Maine? How did prerolls do in Oregon?

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Summer is all but gone. Soon, the kids will be headed back to school and the leaves will start changing. But the July wholesale cannabis data just came in, so we still have a little bit of the season left. How did flower prices do in Maine? What about preroll prices in Oregon? Are cartridge

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Apex Trading client and friend Sarah Patel was highlighted this week in Boston Magazine’s article, “The Real High Housewives of the MetroWest.” It’s a wonderful read that looks at a wide spectrum of topics around women and cannabis. There’s so much great content on the subject, from the removing of stigmas surrounding mothers and cannabis

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The amazing folks over at Cheechable have posted an excellent article addressing some of the issues Oregon cannabis producers are facing regarding the OLCC, Governor Kotek, taxes and more. Looking for insights from cannabis industry experts, they tapped Apex Trading’s CEO and founder, John Manlove, to give some perspective.  GOVERNOR KOTEK, THE OLCC AND OTHER

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Word on the street is LeafLink has raised their wholesale software prices for Alaskan cannabis brands by three times. For years, Apex Trading has been working with cannabis companies all over the United States and we fully understand how this sort of price increase can have an incredible impact your budget and wholly disrupt your

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As edibles manufacturers, cultivators, extractors, cannabis retailers, and supporting businesses, we keep ourselves pretty busy knocking out tasks and running our operations. However, when you need a little break, there’s nothing like a good weed book for a pleasant distraction. “The Mysteriously Light Dime Bag,” part of the 420 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is just

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