Denver Grocery Run @ Newtopia Now Powered by Doss - August 2025

Join us at our Grocery Run during Newtopia Now to meet and connect with buyers directly!

What do you get when you combine brand founders, retail buyers, and Startup CPG? Grocery Run - a U.S. tour to get inside the mind of local retail buyers - all tailored to Startup CPG’s community.

Get ready for an evening of mixing and mingling while enjoying brand samples. Even if you aren’t sampling, bring product with you to show the buyers! This is going to be THE best networking event of the entire trade show, hands down.

Come meet these featured buyers this August:

• Todd Davis - Category Manager Natural Foods @ King Soopers
• Darcy Landis - Principal Forager @ Whole Foods
• Charlie New - Whole Foods
• Steve Buhagiar - Grocery Buyer @ Woodland's Market
• Travis Reams - Manager, Supplier Relationship Management @ Meijer
• Kasey Blueitt - Local Field Coordinator @ Meijer
• Brody Burk - Foraging Manager @ Sprouts
• Lauren Mamuszka - Category Manager, Frozen @ GoPuff
• Louisa McCarty - 7-Ventures @ 7-11
• Steven Zermeno - 7Ventures Portfolio Analyst @ 7-11
• Erik Muller - President @ Fruit Guys
• Thuy Nguyen - Category Manager @ Thrive Market
• Kelly Bond - Category manager @ Thrive Market
• Christine Dang - Category Manager @ Thrive Market
• Anna Wristen - Category Manager @ Thrive Market
• Nika Levinson - Senior Category Manager @ Thrive Market
• Brooke Butler - Senior Category Manager @ Thrive Market
• Danielle Enga - Senior Category Manager - Vitamins & Supplements @ Thrive Market
• Julianna D'Auria - Merchandising Marketing Associate Brand Manager @ Thrive Market
• Andy Levinson - Data and Site Merch Coordinator @ Thrive Market
• Ryan Rodrigues - Store Manager @ Oceana Market
• Ariell Ilunga - Founder & CEO @ Carla's Fresh Market
• Alicia Cole - Senior Account Manager @ UNFI
• Harshal Rana - Operations Manager @ Nature's Way Health Foods
• Audarshia Townsend - Content Director @ Informa & Fox

• Many more to come!

Here are the amazing brands sampling at this event:

Amu Nutrition: Amu Nutrition offers authentic, ancient Shilajit sourced from Mongolia’s Altai Mountains—pure, potent, and rooted in centuries of healing tradition.

Ava's Pet Palace: Ava’s Pet Palace delivers limited-ingredient pet treats with real ingredients, real purpose, and a founder story retailers and customers connect with.

EatKinda: World's first cauliflower ice cream, made for everyone!

Grabella’s: Grabella’s sweet potato waffles are veggie-first, gut-friendly, and made without refined sugars, flours, or seed oils—just clean comfort for busy mornings.

Hugz Snacks: Mom-Owned company focused on clean-label nutritious breads & snacks.

Lentiful: We make instant lentils - the perfect lunch in a minute!

LiQure: LiQure is a science-backed recovery gummy designed to help you feel better after drinking.

Mom Juice: Low Sugar, Gluten-Free and Vegetarian wines made with less than 9 Ingredients.

Mungfu: Mungfu transforms wholesome lentils into clean, crave-worthy tofu and snacks—packed with 100% plant power, free from soy, chemicals, artificial flavors.

OH MY GUM!: OH MY GUM! is here to reinvent traditional confectionery categories by elevating every element - ingredients, branding and where we we show up. We bring fresh energy to familiar products, turning them into essentials that reflect modern taste, style and values. Through our disruptive makeover model, OH MY GUM! does not just enter a category; we redefine it.

Reprise Health: Reprise works with a fifth-generation family to craft daily gummy supplements crafted from traditional Eastern herbs to support your overall holistic health.

Rootless: Rootless Daily Bites are designed specifically to support women’s hormone, thyroid, skin, and gut health—powered by a daily dose of iodine-rich seaweed and functional whole foods.

Spinster Sisters Co. and Old Salt Grooming Supply: Spinster Sisters Co. and Old Salt Grooming Supply are women-owned, B Corp certified brands dedicated to creating high-quality, plant-based personal care and grooming products with a strong commitment to sustainability, ethical sourcing, and plastic-negative practices, meeting the growing demand for eco-conscious and effective self-care solutions.

Twrl: Cafe-style Milk Tea + Boba Toppings, Crafted with Heritage, Amazing Flavor, and Sustainability

Wave Bye: Wave Bye is disrupting Midol, which has been on the shelf unchallenged since 1911.

Yatri Chai Company: Yatri Chai specializes in authentic Indian masala chai that preserves the cultures, origins, and flavor of tea and spices.

Interested in sampling? Apply here!

This is another unreal opportunity for CPG founders to meet each other and showcase your procutds in front of increrible buyers.

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