Southeast Grocery Run with Whole Foods Market - Sept. 2026
About this Event
Get ready, Sunshine State: Startup CPG is hosting a Southeast Grocery Run with Whole Foods Market! 🎉
The Southeast is home to some of the most exciting emerging CPG brands in the country — and we're bringing them together with buyers and retailers from across the Southeast for an afternoon of mingling and sampling in sunny Miami.
Confirmed featured guests:
- Dustin Kennedy - Senior Forager Local and Emerging Brands Southeast Region @ Whole Foods Market
- Parker Brody - Manager, Local & Emerging Brands @ Whole Foods Market
- Amaury Schoon - Vice President of Sales @ Rainforest Distributors
- More coming soon!
Here are the amazing brands sampling at this event:
- Backyard Buffalo makes your everyday Indian food.
- BunnieCakes makes ready to bake cupcake batter.
- CODITOS is a Miami-born crunchy macaroni snack brand transforming one of America’s favorite comfort foods into a bold, clean-label, Cuban-inspired crunch built to cross over from Hispanic nostalgia to mainstream America.
- Dona Nona makes better bread, with better ingredients!
- Fressh is the upgraded arepa flour reinventing a Venezuelan kitchen staple for the modern table — founded at 17 by a Miami entrepreneur on a mission to make culture and performance food the same thing.
- Good Mood Foods, inc. are high protein vegan adaptogenic bites from my grandmothers cookie recipe!
- Keya's Snacks are built on flavor, backed by culture. Leveraging heritage on beloved American snacks.
- Moo'd Up brings back the nostalgic taste of chocolate milk, strawberry milk, and hot cocoa with dairy-free mixes made with less sugar, added protein, and better ingredients.
- Roast'd makes globally inspired, air-fryer-ready frozen vegetables that are crispy, craveable, and never soggy like today’s steamed frozen options.
- SAUCY YAY! solves the 'What's for Dinner?' problem with gourmet cooking sauces that turn your favorite proteins into crave-worthy meals in minutes.
- Sierra Madre Tortilla Co. is a small-batch tortilla mill crafting traditional nixtamal tortillas and tortilla chips from organic corn using time-honored methods and simple ingredients.
- Stanky Sauce is a Florida-based, family-friendly craft hot sauce brand creating award-winning, flavor-forward sauces that take everyday meals on an adventure — from sweet and mild to somewhat wild — under our motto “Feed Adventure.”
- Surfsnax makes salmon snack sticks!
Want to sample at this event? Apply here!
Space is limited! You must apply to sample. A ticket to the event does NOT grant you a sampling table.
Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Email [email protected]
About Startup CPG
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Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 80.25 to USD 287.41
