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Sambazon, Inc.
IndustryFood products, Drinks
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Products
Websitehttp://sambazon.com


Sambazon, Inc. is a privately held American company based in San Clemente, California and founded in 2000. The company makes and sells açaí-based food and beverages.[1] All Sambazon products are USDA-certified Organic, Non-GMO Project verified, naturally gluten free and fair trade.[2] The variety of açaì-based smoothies, juices, and other Sambazon smoothies are sold in packs sometimes.

History

File:Sambazon Frozen Acai Pack 100 g original.jpg
Frozen acai pack.

Sambazon was founded in 2000 by Ryan Black, Edmund Nichols and Jeremy Black, following a trip to Brazil where they experienced their first açaí bowls.[3] Credited for introducing açaí to the US, the company started by selling frozen açaí pulp to juice bars in southern California, but now has distribution networks across the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and Canada. [4] [5] In 2005, Sambazon built its own açaí manufacturing plant in Brazil, establishing an organic, vertically-integrated supply chain for the berries.[6]

As the largest producer of organic açaí with yearly sales estimated at US$25 million in 2008,[7] Sambazon is credited with being the first company to establish USDA Organic Certification for açaí, and also achieved Fairtrade certification for its supply chain.[8] As of October 2013, Sambazon was the fifth largest premium juice brand in the US and became part of a category known as "superpremium juice drinks" that includes brands like Bossa Nova, Odwalla and Naked Juice.[9] The companies products include frozen fruit packs, frozen desserts, energy drinks, juices, and a sorbet.[10]

Sustainability

Sambazon operates as a triple bottom line business (whereby success is measured economically, socially and environmentally), and has worked closely with local and international NGOs, including The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Peabiru Institute, Amapa and Para State Federal Universities and more, to preserve the Amazon rainforest, ensure that their açaí berries are sustainably harvested, and that farmers are paid fair wages.[11]

Sambazon also founded the Sustainable Amazon Partnership (SAP) “to promote lasting sustainable management of the Brazilian Amazon, while improving the conditions of indigenous people through creative marketing of the açaí fruit,” and works to encourage environmental stewardship, stimulate biodiverse agro-forestry systems, and provide alternatives to logging, cattle, soy, and monoculture plantations through the project.[7]

Sambazon’s sustainable practices support 10,000 family farmers and 2 million acres of Amazon rainforest in the region, while aiming to improve the lives of local residents through projects like constructing new schools and community centers, and working with a local women’s cooperative to generate profits by creating jewelry that utilizes açaí seeds.[12]

Awards

Sambazon is the recipient of several awards, including SELF 2013 Healthy Food Awards; Women’s Health 125 Best Packaged Food Awards 2012; BevNET Best of 2012 Award: Best Smoothie; InterBev: Best Organic Beverage Award 2012; SHAPE Snack Awards 2011; and the United States Secretary of State’s 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) – Small-Medium Business Category.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Notes

  1. ^ McCuan, Jess (October 1, 2008) “Passions: Ryan Black, CEO of Sambazon” Inc.
  2. ^ Hainer, Michelle (June 27, 2013) “When There’s No Time to Eat, Try These Nutritious Drinks”
  3. ^ Fuller, David (February 2013) “Thanks to Sambazon, Açaí Berries Benefit Consumers and Growers” Costco Connection.
  4. ^ “Sambazon: Making trees in the rainforest ‘too valuable to cut down’” Retrieved 1 January 2014. opic.gov.
  5. ^ Shilander, Jim (March 21, 2013) “San Clemente’s Own Brand of Superfood” San Clemente Times.
  6. ^ Watson, Elaine (January 3, 2013) “Sambazon and the Genesis of an Amazonian Super Food Empire” Food Navigator-USA.
  7. ^ a b Cheeseman, Gina-Marie (December 1, 2010) “How Sustainability is Embedded in Sambazon” The Guardian.
  8. ^ Gunther, Marc (November 23, 2010) “Why Açaí? Ask the Sambazon Guys” Marc Gunther: Business. Sustainability.
  9. ^ “Sambazon: Surfing to Success” U.S. Department of State, Vol. 18, No. 04. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  10. ^ "Sambazon". Sambazon. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  11. ^ Tischner, Ursula. “Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production: Food and Agriculture” (Greenleaf Publishing, 2010) Pg 165-170
  12. ^ Fuller, David (February 2013) “Thanks to Sambazon, Açaí Berries Benefit Consumers and Growers” Costco Connection.
  13. ^ Baker, Allison “Healthy Food Awards: Drinks” Retrieved 21 October 2013. SELF Magazine.
  14. ^ Staff (September 7, 2012) “125 Best Packaged Foods” Women’s Health.
  15. ^ “BevNET.com's Best of 2012” Retrieved 28 October 2013. BevNet.
  16. ^ Bill, Bruce (October 2012) "InterBev Awards 2012 Finalists and Winners Announced” FoodBev.com. Retrieved November 11, 2013
  17. ^ VanBuskirk, Maggie (July 25, 2013) “Snack Awards 2011: The 20 Best Low-Calorie Snacks” Archived 2015-01-13 at the Wayback Machine SHAPE Magazine.
  18. ^ (November 8, 2006) “Sambazon Named Winner of The Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence” NewHope360.
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