A few years back when I ran a beverage company, we had to launch using those plastic sleeves to put our designs on the cans.

But they looked bad, the sleeves get stretched out, they don't cover the full can, and overall they just look and feel low quality.

Lucky for you, digital can printing technology has come so far over the last few years that now you can launch your beverage brand or new skews with a fully

printed look and it's at similar pricing to those plastic sleeves.

Our friends at CanWorks, which is the largest U.S.-based digital can printer, are happy to work with

our community at very low minimums, even one palette.

They've got locations in the East Coast, the West Coast, Texas.

Get in touch with them through our contact form.

It's at canworksprinting.com slash startup CPG.

Thank you. As I go through every region in the countries, like we're kind of 40, 50% growth to 150% growth still.

At this point, you know, getting that distribution.

And I think the consumer is really picking it up.

And now I'm starting to see an acceleration. In the last 15 months, we've grown at an average of

154,000 household homes, 15 months straight. That has not slowed.

Welcome to the Startup CPG podcast. Today we welcome back Eric Skay of Carbon Fine Foods.

We lasted an episode with him in February of 2024, and at that time it was so clear that

Carbon was on its way to disrupting the category. Now they've really broken through in a major way,

hitting 100 million in sales, continuing to grow door count, their velocity, adding new skews,

and we wanted to invite Eric back to talk about

what that road has been like getting to 100. So on today's episode, we talk about how they've

managed that growth, how they continue to innovate and tons of advice from Eric for emerging

entrepreneurs. Enjoy.

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