(30ml) portions, with each size bottle containing 50mg of CBD per milliliter of liquid. Natural, Peppermint, Tangerine, Vanilla, and Wildberry versions are offered, as well as formulations for pets and equine, a salve, lotion, and muscle freeze lotion, and patches. The company is in the process of adding gummies, cones, and prepared hemp buds with CBD oil, and says it will increase the line to meet whatever demand arises. With so many types of retailers adding CBD to their product mix, are tobacco retailers a viable sales channel? Rouse is certain they are. “We believe that this is going to be an alternative opportunity for retailers and tobacco shops around the country to make an additional product, a cash product, in association with tobacco. Each one will go hand-in-hand,” says Rouse. “If retailers are not into this in one fashion or another, they are going to be looking at doing it because it is a profit opportunity.” Rouse says his goal is to get the product out to distributors and retailers based on volume, retaining only a only a small percentage, but that the profit margins for retailers could be as high as 50 percent. The company also offers private label services to retailers and distributors. “We made our niche in the tobacco industry doing private label for tobacco companies, retailers, distributors, with their own branding, because they wanted to have their own product and name on the products,” says Rouse of his tobacco company, M&R Holdings. He’s offering the same access to his CBD products through NCD’s private labeling capabilities. “We’re making it accessible to everyone that wants to have their own product, but using our branded CBD oils and products,” says Rouse. “We can make an extensive range of products for them with their branding—whatever they want to do.” Currently there are no minimum orders since NCD operate its production and packaging operations in-house. “We’re making it accessible to every retail and outlet shop out there in the United States that would like to have their own branded product that sets them apart from someone down the street.” For retailers curious about entering the segment, Rouse suggests visiting
> Carolina Hemp Products of Kinston, N.C., has converted tobacco seedling greenhouses into state-of-the-art hemp growing facilities, where plants are raised in their entirety, from seedling to mature plants prior to harvesting. The facility is the exclusive joint venture producer of Crystal Coast Infusion CBD products, distributed by North Carolina Distribution (NCD).
NCDHemp.com to peruse the extensive list of literature available on both CBD and hemp products. The company’s associate, Dr. Holly Parker, also has a physician’s guide to CBD products available for download, and there’s a video of the company’s farming and production operations. “The reason I got into this business was I wanted to help folks,” Rouse stresses. “I wasn’t exactly sure which avenue or road to take. When people starting talking about CBD products, I was a little skeptical.” Rouse says he had a personal issue and is now a believer. “I can’t make any claims regarding health claims for CBD products or hemp,” Rouse reiterates. “However, we want the consumers to be the judge of the product. Try it, and I believe that they are going to come back and be a customer of these retail stores ongoing.
Bottom line, if a retailer’s not into this, he’s missing the boat. And they need to keep in mind of a difference in products on the market.” With a growing crowd of small operators entering the segment, “flying by the seat of their pants,” Rouse says they simply don’t have the resources and capability of producing a quality product that meets, or will meet FDA guidelines. Together, Rouse and Howard’s combined multi-generational expertise and long-standing established business offer industry channels a trusted partner for those who want to enter the channel. North Carolina Distribution, LLC (NCD), P.O. Box 403, Pink Hill, NC 28572, Tel: (252) 568-7418, Email: sales@ ncdhemp.com, Web: ncdhemp.com or shop.ncdhemp.com to place online wholesale orders. August 2019 SMOKESHOP
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