CHUZA

This week, we missed the eclipse but got to experience the bullseye ?? ! Thanks VMG Partners and Kinneberg Management Group for letting us be part of this great opportunity to learn from the Target team, and allowing us to share CHUZA flavors, culture and flair with them. Special thanks to Jose A. Bermudez, Wayne Wu, Kathy Yuh, Maria R, Doug Kinneberg, TJ Varecka, Brett Wondra, Le'Spencer Walker for the support during this weeks Target Newness Summit.

If you are going to Expo West 2024, CHUZA will be participating on the Pitch Slam on Tuesday 12th and we would love to see you there!!! We will also have our products displayed at Faire booth 4099C Hall D. So please stop by and spice it up!

We are so excited to introduce this year’s Expo West Pitch Slam Semifinalists: Fair & Square Kekoa Foods Farmer Foodie ? Lentiful Cien Chiles THEO's Plant-Based CHUZA RINGA? holistic hydration Latin Goodness Foods/MasPanadas Dr.NOAH Brune Kitchen Alice's Sweet Tooth LLC The Cracker King Philosopher Foods Painterland Sisters Join us Tuesday, March 12 to hear pitches from this incredible lineup of innovators and to share a toast to their groundbreaking ideas, products and missions ? Sponsored by 301 INC & Green Spoon Sales Learn more: https://utm.io/ugzFs #expowest #empoweryourfuture #pitchslam #naturalproducts #cpg #innovation #anaheim

Thanks so much Ariana Alexa C. , Marcella Lee, @Karlene Chavis and CBS 8 San Diego for such a fun piece. We love that you all had a favorite and thanks for choosing CHUZA! It was great to have this being filmed at Cardiff Seaside Market which was the first grocery that gave CHUZA a chance.

Thanks so much Ciara Encinas, Aaron Dickens and ABC10 for having my kids and me to talk about CHUZA and for supporting small business here in San Diego! Such a fun experience having my kids being part of this CHUZA experience. #chooseCHUZA

GRACIAS PepsiCo for an experience of a lifetime - it is a CHUZA!!! Greenhouse Accelerator Juntos Crecemos gave us the opportunity to learn from the best in the industry, be part of an impressive cohort with such inspiring brands and leaders, make new friends from both the cohort and the PepsiCo team and to spice things up - we got WON #1 PRIZE!!! Thanks to Esperanza Teasdale, Antonio Escalona, Michael Hammer, Daniel Grubbs (PepsiCo Ventures Group) and everyone that put together this amazing program. Especially to Alice Chin and Jeny Quintanilla who were my mentors during the program. They went from mentors, to therapists to friends. Couldn't?not have done it without you! LINK to press release: https://lnkd.in/gTC3sbVe

GRACIAS to the California Grocers Association for having CHUZA as part of this year’s pitch slam. We are honored and excited that CHUZA won FIRST place from the judges and equally important as the winner of the People’s Choice award! We are very much looking forward to expanding our footprint across California. And a special shoutout to Subriana Pierce for the support you give us emerging brands. You described this contest as Shark?Tank meets Americas Got Talent - and we are more than grateful for those GOLDEN TICKETS! That was a CHUZA!!! Congrats to everyone that was part of it: UNiTE Food Products FUN Sesames??? Mocktail Club? KUL MOCKS Zing Bars Lotus Sustainables #chooseCHUZA

If you are coming to the UNFI show in Las Vegas (9/27 - 9/28), please stop at our booth #325 and if you can't make it and would like to talk spicy snacks please shoot me a DM!