![]() GTFO currently ships frozen, refrigerated, and shelf stable vegan and plant-based products from its 14,000 square foot warehouse in Orange County, CA to every state of the U.S. GTFO It's Vegan (GTFO) is the industry's leading online retailer, wholesaler and distributor of vegan and plant-based foods. To learn more about the GTFO It's Vegan crowdfunding round, visit. To learn more about GTFO It's Vegan, visit email. As we continue to expand our footprint beyond online, to include manufacturing and business-to-business distribution, we are grateful to secure such an amazing portfolio of partnerships to fuel our growth." Marc Pierce, GTFO It's Vegan's President and Co-Founder states, "this expansion of our GreatFoods It's Vegan line of sashimi into national retail and foodservice distribution represents a major milestone in the evolution of GTFO It's Vegan. GTFO also services over 400 wholesalers, including restaurants, food trucks, and specialty retailers across the U.S. Since its launch, GTFO has fulfilled nearly 40,000 orders containing over 400,000 vegan and plant-based items. GTFO currently has over 3,000 vegan and plant-based products across 750+ brands. Launched in May of 2020 by husband and wife team Marc and Tanya Pierce, GTFO has quickly emerged as the largest player in the online vegan and plant-based retail and wholesale space. market, has quickly grown to become the #1 seller on GTFO It's Vegan. The sashimi line, which represents the most extensive line of vegan sashimi in the U.S. Last November 2021, GTFO launched its own line of vegan sashimi including tuna, salmon, sailfish, and calamari under its GreatFoods It's Vegan private label. Founded by Guy Vaknin, a renowned chef famous for his innovative plant-based creations, Beyond Sushi is New York's preeminent chain of vegan sushi restaurants with multiple locations across New York City. GTFO's GreatFoods It's Vegan tuna and salmon sashimi is also now on the menu at Beyond Sushi. Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and non-food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers around the world. ![]() ![]() With more than 5,500 employee-owners and a 16-distribution center network across North America, KeHE is one of the largest and most respected pure-play grocery and natural distributors in the nation. As we work on increasing our reach in key international markets to further grow the brand, we are also looking to develop products that would cater to local tastes” Banzon said.GreatFoods It's Vegan Tuna, Salmon, Sailfish, & Calamari “We are continuously developing and testing out new unMEAT products to expand the range and to provide consumers with more plant-based options. The company rolled out a shelf-stable unMEAT luncheon meat line and a plant-based dairy alternative unCHEESE in 2021, while it launched a domestic breakfast range and a seafood alternative unMEAT Fish-free Tuna last year. Starting with a refrigerated line in 2020, CNPF has expanded its unMEAT portfolio to include new plant-based food formats. Our business plans are calibrated for this kind of market environment, and we believe we can provide delicious but more affordable options to this market,” he stressed. “We never bought into the growth-at-all-cost mantra, but we still believe in the tremendous opportunity, and we think the plant-based meat market will have a long term double-digit growth rate. Now expectations are having to be tamed.” ![]() In response to current skepticism after the initial hype around the category, Banzon said “we knew there was a lot of noise and high expectations about alternative proteins in the past few years. As a protein delivery company, we need to be present in the plant-based segment and innovate in this space to democratize the category,” he noted.īanzon said “Introducing an accessible shelf-stable format priced at parity to meat analogs can change the game, attract more users, and hopefully unlock the segment’s potential.” “Consumers are looking for healthier and better-for-the-planet food options. It is also available in specialty e-commerce sites such as GTFO, It’s Vegan, Weee! and Vegan Black Market.īanzon added that, “We believe in the long-term potential of plant-based alternatives, and brands like unMEAT have a role to play to sustainably address the food requirements of an increasingly growing global population.” “This vote of confidence from Walmart affirms that we are heading in the right direction with respect to our plant-based business,” said CNPF Chief Operating Officer Greg Banzon.Īside from Walmart, unMEAT is distributed in the United States through HEB, Harris Teeter, Meijer, and select natural and grocery stores.
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