Emerging Brands Podcast®

with kelly bennett

Discover CPG brands hitting your retail shelves👀🛒

Discover CPG brands hitting your retail shelves👀🛒


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Tacotarian at Home

Tacotarian at Home is the new retail line of plant-based, shelf-stable taco fillings inspired by the award-winning Tacotarian restaurant. Women-owned and founded with a mission to make plant-based eating more accessible. Listen to the story behind the launch!

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Pulp+Wire

Pulp+Wire is a female-founded creative agency with over 20 years of experience. With 1000+ brand collaborations, Pulp+Wire founder Taja Dockendorf shares the story behind the agency and what makes a brand stand out in the marketplace.

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Something Sweet Dough

Something Sweet is a premium, pre-portioned, ready to bake frozen brown butter cookie dough. Something Sweet provides a homemade baking experience with the convenience of a frozen dessert with no mess or cleanup.

Listen to the story of how this mom & daughter team launched something sweet after family loss. Such an inspiring brand!

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Frankly Good Coffee

Listen to the behind the scenes of how Frankly Good Coffee's team prepared for their first retail launch at Pop Up Grocer in New York City!

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Hosted by Kelly Bennett

Kelly Bennett is a New York City–based brand strategist behind CPG food & beverage ideas becoming brands hitting retail shelves next.

After 20 years of experience building emerging brands, Kelly found her niche in CPG food and beverage and now works with some of the hottest emerging brands hitting retail shelves next, including Cotto and She's the Sauce.

She hosts the Emerging Brands Podcast®, discovering CPG brands hitting your retail shelves next, with new episodes every Monday. On the show, she interviews founders scaling into retailers like Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Target.

Kelly also writes a weekly Substack, With Kelly Bennett, where she shares discoveries from her podcast, home, and clients hitting retail shelves next.

Newly an angel investor, Kelly backs emerging CPG food & beverage brands and the operations scaling their retail footprint.