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About

Sambazon, Inc. is a privately-held American company based in San Clemente, California that makes açaí(acai)-based food and beverages. All Sambazon products are USDA Certified Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, gluten free and fair trade.

History

Sambazon was founded in 2000 by Ryan Black, Edmund Nichols and Jeremy Black, following a trip to Brazil where they experienced their first açaí bowls. Credited for introducing açaí to the U.S., Sambazon began by selling frozen açaí pulp to juice bars in Southern California, and now has distribution networks across the U.S., Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and Canada. In 2005, Sambazon built its own açaí manufacturing plant in Brazil establishing an organic, vertically integrated supply chain for the berries.

As the #1 producer of organic açaí, Sambazon is credited with being the first company to establish USDA Organic Certification for açaí, and also achieved Fair Trade certification for its supply chain. As of October 2013, Sambazon was the fifth largest premium juice brand in the U.S.

Social Consciousness & Sustainability

Sambazon operates as a “triple bottom line” business (whereby success is measured economically, socially and environmentally), and has worked closely with local and international NGOs, including The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Peabiru Institute, Amapa and Para State Federal Universities and more, to preserve the Amazon Rainforest, ensure that açaí berries are sustainably harvested, and that farmers are paid fair wages. Sambazon also founded the Sustainable Amazon Partnership (SAP) “to promote lasting sustainable management of the Brazilian Amazon, while improving the conditions of indigenous people through creative marketing of the açaí fruit,” and works to encourage environmental stewardship, stimulate bio-diverse agro-forestry systems, and provide alternatives to logging, cattle, soy, and monoculture plantations through the project. Sambazon’s sustainable practices support 10,000 family farmers and 2 million acres of Amazon Rainforest in the region, while aiming to improve the lives of local residents through projects like constructing new schools and community centers, and working with a local women’s cooperative generate profits from creating jewelry out of açaí seeds.

Awards

Sambazon is the recipient of several awards, including SELF 2013 Healthy Food Awards; Women’s Health 125 Best Packaged Food Awards 2012; BevNET Best of 2012 Award: Best Smoothie; InterBev: Best Organic Beverage Award 2012; SHAPE Snack Awards 2011; and the Secretary of State’s 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) – Small-Medium Business Category.

Notes

1. McCuan, Jess (October 1, 2008) “Passions: Ryan Black, CEO of Sambazon” Inc.
2. Hainer, Michelle (June 27, 2013) “When There’s No Time to Eat, Try These Nutritious Drinks”
3. Fuller, David (February 2013) “Thanks to Sambazon, Açaí Berries Benefit Consumers and Growers” Costco Connection.
4. “Sambazon: Making trees in the rainforest ‘too valuable to cut down’” Retrieved 1 January 2014. opic.gov.
5. Shilander, Jim (March 21, 2013) “San Clemente’s Own Brand of Superfood” San Clemente Times.
6. Watson, Elaine (January 3, 2013) “Sambazon and the Genesis of an Amazonian Super Food Empire” Food Navigator-USA.
7. Gunther, Marc (November 23, 2010) “Why Açaí? Ask the Sambazon Guys” Marc Gunther: Business. Sustainability.
8. “Sambazon: Surfing to Success” U.S. Department of State, Vol. 18, No. 04. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
9. Tischner, Ursula. “Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production: Food and Agriculture” (Greenleaf Publishing, 2010) Pg 165-170
10. Cheeseman, Gina-Marie (December 1, 2010) “How Sustainability is Embedded in Sambazon” The Guardian.
11. Fuller, David (February 2013) “Thanks to Sambazon, Açaí Berries Benefit Consumers and Growers” Costco Connection.
12. Baker, Allison “Healthy Food Awards: Drinks” Retrieved 21 October 2013. SELF Magazine.
13. Staff (September 7, 2012) “125 Best Packaged Foods” Women’s Health.
14. “BevNET.com's Best of 2012” Retrieved 28 October 2013. BevNet.
15. Bill, Bruce (October 2012) "InterBev Awards 2012 Finalists and Winners Announced” FoodBev.com. Retrieved November 11, 2013
16. VanBuskirk, Maggie (July 25, 2013) “Snack Awards 2011: The 20 Best Low-Calorie Snacks” SHAPE Magazine.
17. (November 8, 2006) “Sambazon Named Winner of The Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence” NewHope360.

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