Welltodo Today: Grocery Challenger Brands, Lululemon Is Still On The Rise, Luxury Developers Tap Into Wellness

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Roar Organic Announces $5.6M Funding Round – BevNET.com

Venture capital fund AccelFoods announced today it is leading a planned $5.6 million round in Roar Organic. AccelFoods said it has committed $1.25 million, of which $625,000 has already been invested in the better-for-you sports drink. The full round is expected to close in the first week of January.

How Brands Like Casper And L’Occitane Enable Shopping Therapy For The Holiday Season

Available to Professional & Basic Members From offering nap sessions to foodie treats and wellness gift guides, top retailers are catering to consumers’ undying health and wellbeing obsessions during a season of winter blues and holiday madness With the convenience offered by ecommerce channels, brick-and-mortar customers expect more from their in-store experiences, and in the midst of chilly temps, short days and end-of-year stress, consumers are in need of some R&R.

Wellness giant Life Time targets co-working, shopping malls for next act

Founded in 1990 by CEO Bahram Akradi, Minnesota-based Life Time used to be known as a premier health club that operated large gyms mainly in affluent suburbs in Midwestern and Southern states. Its success was memorialized in 2015 when two leading private equity firms, Leonard Green & Partners a…

10 of the fastest growing grocery challenger brands

Health is the common thread linking together many of the successful challenger brands in this year’s The Grocer Top Products survey. Low-calorie ice cream Halo Top, sports nutrition brand Grenade and healthy snacking specialist Grenade have all secured a spot in our list of fastest growing brands under £50m by absolute value change.

Lululemon is a brand still on the rise, Citi says in upgrade

Lululemon started the year on a high note, but shares have stumbled in the past few months alongside the broader market. But Citi believes the stock’s recent pullback creates an attractive entry point to buy the stock.

Agents urged to tap into wellness trend

Travel and hospitality companies need to become a lot more involved with the burgeoning global wellness movement, delegates at ILTM in Cannes were told. “Today’s travel brands are at the epicentre of an exciting new ecosystem and no other industry is better placed to capture this explosion of need [for better wellbeing].”

Luxury Developers Tap Into Beauty, Wellness

When New Yorkreal estate developers Steve and Lauren Witkoff were working out how to make their luxury condominium 111 Murray in Manhattan’s celebrity-filled TriBeCa neighborhood stand out from the crowd in a market flowing with over-the-top amenities, they started to think about what wealthy Manhattanites actually used.