Welltodo Today: The Next Billion Dollar Brands, Creating Fitness Trends, Blue Apron

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

BevNET Podcast Ep. 25: What Are The Next Billion Dollar Brands? Tom First Tells. – BevNET.com

This week, the podcast team is joined by veteran entrepreneur, investor and advisor Tom First who offers his take on emerging trends in the beverage business, including why he sees a big future for gut health and protein. First also shares his thoughts on the kind of beverage companies that are primed to become billion dollar brands.

Lululemon Looks to Get 40% of Sales From Men as Chain Expands

Lululemon Athletica Inc. Chief Executive Officer Laurent Potdevin sees a future where almost half the company’s customers are men. Helped by an expansion overseas — where customers don’t necessarily associate Lululemon with women — the apparel chain could eventually get 40 percent of its business from male shoppers, Potdevin said in an interview.

SoulCycle’s co-founders share 3 things to look for in a potential business partner

Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice have been on an incredible tandem ride for the last decade. They are the co-founders of the fitness phenomenon SoulCycle. And without each other, the co-founders say they wouldn’t have made it. “One plus one is way more than two,” says Cutler in a conversation with CNBC at the Iconic entrepreneurship conference in Boston.

How Blue Apron Got It Right

Matt Salzberg launched Blue Apron in 2014 thinking he’d take a novel idea, fuel it with venture capital and some Harvard Business School expertise, and run a nice, healthy startup. He didn’t quite anticipate his meal kit delivery business would blow through its six-year revenue projection in two years.

Your Basement Gym Is No Match for These $10 Million Wellness Amenities

These days, people aren’t above paying $40 several times a week to ride a stationary bike to nowhere, followed by another $8 to cool down with a watermelon juice. In this context, it makes sense that real-estate developers have started adding so-called wellness amenities to new buildings.

UK’s first food waste supermarket opens in Leeds

A new ‘pay-what-you-feel’ food surplus supermarket in Yorkshire is providing the public with the chance to grab unsold food from retailers and suppliers and prevent much-needed supplies from disappearing into the bin. The Real Junk Food Project runs a network of pay-what-you-feel cafes around the UK and beyond, serving meals created using surplus food that would otherwise go to waste.

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