Emerging Brands Alliance to Award Initial Emerging Brands Grants at PACK EXPO

The Emerging Brands Alliance, an organization dedicated to helping new brands scale manufacturing, has recently announced the finalists for the 2022 Emerging Brands Grants. The Alliance will distribute $60,000 in grant funding to the emerging brands community this year, where some of the most inventive new consumer packaged goods are originating. With a focus on customer engagement, these products often leverage shopper trends and values – such as organic ingredients, sustainable sourcing, or environmentally-minded packaging – as a way to differentiate in the crowded CPG marketplace. 

More than 400 companies applied for a 2022 Emerging Brands Grant. Among the entries were manufacturers of plant-based snacks, ethnic street food, better-for-you alternatives to traditional desserts, beverages with super fruits and prebiotics, as well as mission-based brands that promote compostable packaging, saving bees, charitable donations and more. 

The 2022 grant finalists are:

• 12 Tides
• All Y'alls Foods
• Annie's Ginger Elixir
• Baozza, LLC
• Blind Tiger, LLC
• Bread SRSLY, LLC
• Cajou Creamery
• Chagit Products, Inc.
• Chasin' Dreams Farm
• ChipMonk, Inc.
• Cool Beans
• Crave Natural, Inc. DBA Yishi Foods
• Cupid Cheesecake (Freezcake)
• Dillonades
• Eat Your Greens LLC., DBA Red Belly Honey & Rbel Bee Sweets
• EATABLE FOODS IC.
• Else Nutrition USA, Inc.
• FIELD + FARMER
• Go Energy Foods, Inc.
• Smart Cookie Bakery
• SOCIAL Sparkling Water and Wine
• Sugar Bliss
• TCC BRANDS, Inc.
• The Only Bean, LLC
• Trident Coffee Roasters
• Good Beverage, LLC dba Heywell
• GOODONYA Organic
• Grain4Grain
• Green Slice Foods, LLC
• Gruvi
• Healthy Oceans Pescavore
• KBrews, Inc.
• Kindroot, LLC
• Latin Goodness Foods
• Lil' Gourmets, LLC
• Mumtails, LLC
• ONO Protein Oats
• Panco Foods, Inc.
• Perfect Life Nutrition
• Popsalot, LLC
• Queen of Hearts Superfoods
• Route66 International, Inc
• Rumi Spice
• Sarilla
• Small Batch Organics
• TRUE SALT, LLC
• WAJU Water (Blue Yonder Brands, Inc.)
• Whoa Dough
• Wonderlab Doozy, Inc.
• Xoca World Ltd.

Grant award winners will be announced at the Emerging Brands Summit on October 23 in Chicago. One $20,000 grant will be distributed to each of three categories: certified minority or women-owned companies, self-manufacturing companies, and all eligible companies.