Nombase Education: Your Guide to CPG Success

Learn how emerging beverage brands can successfully enter and grow in the convenience store channel, from retailer targeting and distribution to promotions, velocity, and expansion.

Learn how to build a distinctive CPG brand through smarter strategy, naming, packaging, and design decisions that help your product get noticed and drive growth.

Innovation is about what’s next—but it has to be built with intention. Ben Mand, CPG expert and former CEO of Yerba Madre and Harmless Harvest, shares how to design a smart innovation pipeline that leverages retailer collaboration, optimizes your supply chain, and uses SKU rationalization to make space for what’s next.

Nicole Dawes, founder of Late July and Nixie Beverage Company, shares how to build a mission-driven brand where the mission isn’t marketing — it’s the operating system.

Learn how to build and scale a high-impact team from the ground up. In this session, Arnulfo Ventura, CEO and Brand Builder, shares how to identify the right advisors, balance full-time and fractional talent, and design an organizational structure and culture that drive long-term, sustainable growth.