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.
