Starting a CBD Business: Resources and Guidelines
Hemp Depot is proud to be the nation’s leading CBD wholesaler and CBD manufacturer. We’re humbled to provide all the leading tips and guidelines on how to start a CBD business. The CBD industry is highly unique when compared to other industries, offering an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs. We’ve worked with countless CBD startups and small businesses and are happy to provide experience-based resources for everything you need to know before you get started. If you don’t find the information you’re looking for within these articles, please feel free to contact us!
Manufacturing During A Crisis: How To Adapt To Changing Supply Chains And Consumer Demand
An old adage suggests that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” But for manufacturers, an adapted version might be, “When the going gets tough, the tough get smart.” But how do you get smart when multiple business-threatening disasters seem to be...
Review And Improve Business Processes With These 13 Strategies
As both your business and industry evolve, you may be wondering if it’s time to evolve your business practices as well. A thorough review of your processes can help you define what you’re currently doing, identify areas of strength and potential improvement and guide...
The Incredible Applications of Hemp
Did you know that hemp has up to 25,000 different applications? This highly versatile plant is the only crop that can feed you, clothe you, house you, and potentially heal you. Prior to cannabis prohibition in the United States, hemp was utilized for everything from...
CBN 101: Introduction and Potential Benefits
While CBD and THC have stolen the spotlight as the most popular cannabinoids, they actually only account for a few of the over a hundred cannabinoids that are naturally-occurring within cannabis plants. CBN, considered as a minor compound since it's concentrations are...
MUSE LIVE! with Special Guest Andy Rodosevich
Hemp Depot CEO and co-founder Andy Rodosevich was interviewed live on Muse TV on April 20, 2020, on the state of the CBD industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear how Hemp Depot is responding by shifting a portion of the business to manufacturing hand sanitizer and...
CBD and COVID-19 Part 2: How Companies Have Evolved
As states continue to implement and extend stay-at-home mandates, cannabis dispensaries have, for the most part, been among a select number of businesses permitted to remain open. Some cannabidiol (CBD) retailers have not been given the same luxury, but even for the...
Hemp Depot Turns to Hand Sanitizer to Keep Employees Working
CEO Andy Rodosevich looked for a market need to keep his company going despite losing 40 percent of bulk manufacturing sales. When The Hemp Depot, a vertically integrated hemp and CBD company based in Denver, Colo., saw its revenues decrease dramatically in late...
Colorado Springs employers adapt to COVID-19
The latest unemployment figures stand as a stark reminder of how much we’re all hurting. On April 2, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment announced that 61,583 initial unemployment claims were filed the week ending March 28. For perspective: That’s eight...
Hemp Depot Pivots Production, Starts Making Hand Sanitizer Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Hemp Depot produces hemp CBD wholesale, but as COVID-19 became a pandemic, wholesale orders dropped rapidly, thus creating a need for CEO Andy Rodosevich to keep his staff employed. This is when he realized that, with some quick changes, he could achieve this goal...
Why RTD turned to a hemp company when its suppliers fell short
When the Regional Transportation District needed hand sanitizer for its 3,060 employees, and its regular suppliers couldn't come through, the agency turned to an unexpected source: Hemp Depot. RTD ordered 2,000 2-ounce spray bottles of hand sanitizer from the...