EnsembleIQ launches new ‘CBD Retail Insights’ platform; Expands leading business intelligence resources into high-growth category

4/7/2020

EnsembleIQ today launches CBD Retail Insights, a highly mobile and social digital platform delivering trends and analysis to connect manufacturers and marketers with wholesale and retail distributors serving a rapidly-growing consumer market.

“As more and more retailers carry new CBD products, our customers tell us they require easy-to-access daily insights to understand the latest developments in this evolving category,” said Jennifer Litterick, CEO, EnsembleIQ. “CBD Retail Insights is designed to meet their needs through a continuously-updated, mobile-friendly website, email and social media offering.”

Every day, CBD Retail Insights provides essential perspectives that help retailers better understand points of differentiation among more than 10,000 companies marketing CBD products across beauty, healthcare, skincare, food, snacks, pets and other segments. These must-read insights are distributed through cbdri.com, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Every week, the CBD Retail Insights Update email newsletter delivers perspectives directly to the inboxes of thousands of retail executives. This is a must-read report for leaders seeking to stay on top of a booming industry, projected to generate $24 billion in sales by the year 2023.

“CBD Retail Insights will help our customers navigate a nascent marketplace experiencing tremendous growth and change,” said John Kenlon, Senior Vice President and Publisher of CBD Retail Insights. “We are here to provide the daily information companies need to make smart decisions that most effectively build their business.”

CBD Retail Insights is powered by Seth Mendelson, Editor-in-Chief of EnsembleIQ’s Drug Store News and Store Brands, who has decades of consumer and business-to-business retail journalism experience, along with Managing Editor David Salazar.

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