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New Health and Wellness Company Powerful Brands Launches with CBD and High-Protein Products

Health Wellness CBD High Protein Powerful Brands
February 15, 2021

Powerful Nutrition and MMG Consumer Brands have come together and rebranded as Powerful Brands, dedicated to bringing unique, bold, and innovative consumer products to market. Powerful Brands boasts a growing portfolio of health and wellness brands including Powerful Nutrition (formerly Powerful Foods), offering high-protein foods, drinks, and dietary supplements to fuel active lifestyles; and MMG's hemp-derived CBD brands – KARIBO Beauty and mintedLeaf - found in food, drug, and mass stores.

Powerful launched in 2013 as a great-tasting, natural, high protein yogurt brand, that later diversified into Greek yogurt drinks, oatmeal, smoothies, protein bites and plant-based shakes. Powerful Nutrition's portfolio is expanding this year to include a sports nutrition line comprised and dietary supplements.

"Powerful Brands is focused on true innovation within the health and wellness category. Our thoughtfully curated brands offer genuinely original products that appeal to mass audiences and have major staying power in their respective marketplaces," says Gabriel Navarro, managing partner of Powerful Brands.

The Powerful Brands team is made up of successful entrepreneurs, operators, and investors, who bring in-house, high-value-add resources, and long-standing retail distribution relationships to each brand in its portfolio. The group's capabilities include R&D product development, as well as digital marketing and e-commerce, for a 360-degree approach to successfully bringing products to market.

"The collective expertise at Powerful Brands is guiding our high-growth brands to the next level of breakout growth, both, online and in retailers nationwide. We are thrilled about what each brand has in store for health and wellness consumers in 2021," states Carlos Ramirez, CEO of Powerful Brands and founder of Powerful Nutrition.

About the Powerful Brands:

Powerful Nutrition: High-protein, great-tasting dairy and plant-based products offering clean ingredients and balanced nutrition, on top of a quality dietary and nutritional supplements line to fuel active lifestyles.

mintedLeaf: Topical and ingestible CBD wellness products that improve lives by offering safe, effective, and natural hemp extract alternatives to options commonly found in medicine cabinets.

KARIBO: Affordable daily skin care products for face and body that pair premium, broad-spectrum CBD with high-performance moisturizers, antioxidant ingredients and innovative delivery systems.

 

KEYWORDS: cannabis CBD dairy dairy beverages dairy processor hemp high-protein meals mergers and acquisitions plant-based plant-based processor

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