The Emerging Brands Alliance will award one $50,000 Emerging Brands Grant on September 10, 2023, in Las Vegas. Deadline to apply is July 31.
CHICAGO, IL (July 13, 2023) – The Emerging Brands Alliance grant application deadline is July 31, 2023. This year, the Alliance will award one $50,000 grant to assist a high-growth company with the purchase of packaging or processing machinery for their manufacturing facility, or that of their co-manufacturer’s facility.
In 2022 the Alliance distributed $60,000 in grant funding to three emerging brands who were each awarded $20,000. The winners, Yishi Foods, Pescavore, and Sarilla, were selected from over 460 applicants by a jury of industry professionals, and announced at the Emerging Brands Summit in Chicago. Criteria was based on product innovation, brand story, and growth potential.
The 2023 grant award winner will be announced at the Emerging Brands Summit in Las Vegas on September 10. Finalists will be notified on August 7, 2023. To be eligible for an Emerging Brands Grant, applicants must produce and distribute a packaged consumer product in the U.S. and/or Canada and have annual revenues of at least $1million USD but not more than $20 million USD.
The Emerging Brands Alliance draws on the editorial knowledge of PMMI Media Group, a market-leading B2B media company that produces information for packaging, processing, and automation decision makers. Additional support is provided by PMMI, the Association for Packaging & Processing Technologies, and other industry partners. The Alliance offers year-round education, community support, and business growth opportunities to help advance growing CPG companies.
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The Emerging Brands Summit is produced by PMMI Media Group and will take place September 10, the day before the start of PACK EXPO Las Vegas. Program and registration information is available at emergingbrandssummit.com.
About PMMI Media Group
PMMI Media Group is a market-leading B2B media company that produces information for packaging, processing and automation professionals, bringing together solution providers and end-users and facilitating connectivity throughout the supply chain. Its world class media brands — Packaging World, Healthcare Packaging, CONTRACT Manufacturing + Packaging, OEM, ProFood World and Mundo PMMI — are proven leaders in covering this diverse and dynamic marketplace. Its digital products incorporate leading edge media technologies to deliver informed, actionable business intelligence to the industry.
PMMI Media Group is owned by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, a trade association representing more than 950 North American manufacturers and suppliers of equipment, components and materials as well as providers of related equipment and services to the packaging and processing industry.