Wholesale Cannabis Industry News
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Is Your Cannabis Cultivation Spending Too Much on Energy?
Did you know energy expenses typically make up between 20%-50% of total operating costs for a cannabis grow? Did you also know that there are a number of improvements and steps you can make throughout your cultivation facility to reduce your overall energy costs? It makes sense, but do you have the time and energy
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Maine’s Leb City – Crafting “Quality-First” Medical-Grade Cannabis
Tracing its roots back to 2017, Leb City Greeneries was founded in the historic border town of Lebanon in southwestern Maine. As the company grew, it relocated a few miles southeast to Berwick and continues to craft top-tier, medical-grade cannabis for the Maine market. Further, the company expanded its range with Leb City Extracts. Years
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Apex Trading and The Strange World of Wholesale Cannabis
A few months back, we were remodeling a section of the Apex Trading HQ building located on the edges of Portland’s historic Boise and Grant Park districts. Zip, our quokka mascot, had been crashing at our headquarters for several months, always claiming, “it’ll just be another week, I promise.” We had heard this song and
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Cannabis Industry Book Review – The Case of the Overcomplicated Bong
Even though working in the cannabis industry is the best and you’re wholly devoted to helping your wholesale cannabis software business, as well as all of the cultivators, extractors, edibles manufacturers and retailers, thrive, there are times when you want to slack off a bit, even when you should be knocking out tasks on your
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NECANN Boston – the 8th Annual New England Cannabis Convention
The Apex Trading Team will be headed to Boston, Massachusetts on March 18th for the NECANN show, aka, the 8th Annual New England Cannabis Convention. The event takes place through the 20th of March, 2022 at the Hynes Convention Center located in the charming and historic Back Bay neighborhood. Amongst the hundreds of exhibitors, you’ll
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Apex Trading Wholesale Clients are Putting Aflex Payments to Work to Overcome Supply Chain Challenges
An Apex Trading client and cultivator in Southern Colorado with a line of top-shelf product is putting Aflex Payments, powered by Lendica’s FundNow and PayLater tools, to work to overcome supply chain challenges. Known for their award-winning Wild Thai and Sage N’ Sour blends, the business had gained traction throughout the state and began attracting
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Key Reasons Why 2021 Wholesale Cannabis Flower Prices are Declining
If you work in or follow the cannabis industry, we’re sure you’ve heard about the steep decline in wholesale flower prices across many of the longer-established, adult-use markets. This isn’t uncommon, but most of us didn’t anticipate such a steep decline in 2021 after such a strong 2020 sales year. In this article, we’re going
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Apex Trading’s Founder and CEO John Manlove Gets Personal with Len May on the Everything is Personal Podcast
If you’re not familiar with Len’s show, Everything is Personal, you should be. In it, “cannabis, music, business, some sciencey stuff (and a touch of ADD) all come together in one amazing ride.” Len is a great interviewer and John has the goods to talk about. In episode 39, Len and John tell some great
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CannaCon South 2021 – Drop by Booth 1022 and Say Hello
The world is opening back up and we’re excited to be exhibiting at CannaCon South in Oklahoma City, May 27th and May 28th at the Oklahoma City Convention Center, 500 S Robinson, OKC 73109. If you’re attending CannaCon South, please drop by booth #1022 to say hello to the team. Apex Trading has been serving
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What the Future Holds for Cannabis in 2021 from MJ Brand Insights
This time of year, you can often find articles predicting what the coming 365 days will bring. These articles can be as generic as a tabloid horoscope or as insightful as a business prospectus. This brief, yet informative piece from MJ Brand Insights leans heavily toward the later, yet delivers it in easily-digestible nuggets of
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International Startup Event – PIRATE Summit 2020 – Features Cannabis Entrepreneur John Manlove
John Manlove, the CEO and Founder of Apex Trading and Bushel44, wasn’t on a plane this morning headed to Europe, but he was up early to speak virtually at this year’s PIRATE Summit broadcasting live from Cologne, Germany. PIRATE Summit brings together the movers and shakers of the digital world. In fact, it’s Europe’s largest
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Apex Trading Partners with MJ Unpacked to Bring Buying & Selling to Wholesale Cannabis Industry Events
As Covid-19 has all but eliminated face-to-face cannabis events and trade shows for the foreseeable future, George Jage of Jage Media is bringing an innovative virtual event series to the wholesale cannabis industry. Known to exhibitors and attendees as MJ Unpacked, this event brings industry professionals together via the latest, cutting edge virtual trade show
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Dialing in Your Wholesale Cannabis CRM
We had a great webinar for our active wholesale cannabis sellers and wanted to share with all. In it, we cover some of the latest updates to the platform, including cannabinoid fields in the inventory section and using on-hold versus inactive status. However, the juicy stuff kicks in when we start talking with our panel
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The Evolution of Wholesale Cannabis – Distributors and Wholesalers
Wow! It’s crazy to have lived through and experienced the evolution of the cannabis industry first hand over the last 4 years. When we first started out, wholesale flew off the shelves (think Illinois today) and product was sold almost before it was even harvested or produced. Now, mature markets have seen surges in competition
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Cannabis Benchmarks, Baklava & Mardi Gras – The Perfect Wholesale Cannabis Data Cocktail
This past Tuesday evening while many were out celebrating Mardi Gras, I decided to take the partying spirit to the interwebs. That is, I packed a big ol’ bong of Baklava from Alien Labs, a Cali brand with some out-of-this-world strains, took a few tokes and blasted off to the Cannabis Benchmarks website. We’ve been
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The Importance of Building a Consistent Cannabis Brand
The Apex Trading team has been in the B2B cannabis industry since 2014. That was when the first recreational cannabis market came online in Colorado. Today, there are now 11 states with adult use or recreational cannabis and 33 states with medical marijuana. We’ve had a front row seat to watch the expansion and maturation
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NuHi Hits New High
Introducing NuHi Premium Concentrates available on Apex Trading Apex Trading is excited to announce that NuHi Distribution has launched a heady new line of products – NuHi Premium Concentrates. Included in this High Times Cup award-winning line are delectable live resins, sugar waxes, shatter and cartridges. All are crafted exclusively from NuHi’s own premium material.
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Be Aware – Six Limiting Factors in Emerging State Cannabis Markets
Our friends over a Cannabiz Media and, specifically, their Lead Analyst Susan Gunelius put out an excellent article last week highlighting six key limiting factors that can impact state cannabis markets. You’ll get just the right amount of detail in the article itself, but to quickly summarize, the factors are: 1. Age of the Cannabis
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The Heat Is On and We’re Cool With It – Adapting to the Increased Demands of Summer’s Hot Wholesale Cannabis Market
This summer has been quite the hot one, not only for the sweltering masses across the country, but for the wholesale cannabis industry as well. The Apex Trading team has been at the forefront of the country’s largest adult-use markets for years and summer is always busier for the cannabis industry. Reasons for the lift
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It’s Best to Be Direct When It Comes to Wholesale Cannabis
B2B ecommerce is on the rise and according to the vast majority of industry indicators, and will continue to increase in the coming years. Why? Giving wholesale buyers an easy way to purchase your products at their convenience – from any device at any time – is becoming key to a company’s success. There are
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Metrc – The Headaches We Share
We love working in the cannabis industry. The people, the product, and the opportunity make it the best line of work on the planet. As with any other industry though, ours isn’t perfect. There are plenty of challenges including shifting regulatory landscapes, rapid growth, price volatility, and more. One area where we often hear complaints
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State of the Western States Wholesale Cannabis Market
With Croptober booming out west, downward pressure on wholesale cannabis prices continues to beleaguer our industry. This MJBiz article provides some solid info and insight on how prices compare to last year, how the harvest is progressing, whether we’re facing any major challenges during the harvest, how yields are coming in and what it’s like
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A Funky Trip Around the Phylos Galaxy
Citizens of the Universe – Last night, after a long day at the “office”, I decided to put on some Parliament, Mothership Connection, to be specific, and enjoy a little Skywalker OG. My head began to swirl a bit while Bootsy was slapping that bass fast and loose like some kind of delirious funky priest.
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Standardized Inventory, Order and Client Management is Essential to Your Long-Term Success in Wholesale Cannabis
One big area of opportunity for cannabis producers is the standardization of their inventory, order and client management. Often times you’ll see cultivators and extractors sending their inventory or receiving orders from buyers in various formats such as PDFs, Excel and Google docs, emails, texts, even jotted down on paper. Having to manage these disparate