LeafLink List 2024 Honors Cannabis Industry Leaders Across the U.S.
The annual award highlights the year’s top brands, retailers, and products shaping the future of the cannabis marketplace
December 11, 2024 – LeafLink, the cannabis industry’s leading wholesale marketplace, today announced the winners of the LeafLink List 2024 Awards. This year, 192 winners from 13 states were honored for their innovation, growth, and leadership in the cannabis space. These businesses represent excellence in four categories: Brands, Retailers, Products, and LeafLink Innovators. A complete list of winners can be found here.
“The LeafLink List celebrates the remarkable businesses driving the cannabis industry forward,” said Artie Minson, CEO of LeafLink. “These winners are not just shaping the cannabis market, they’re creating new opportunities and setting benchmarks for success, inspiring the next generation of cannabis entrepreneurs. Congratulations to everyone who has won today!”
The LeafLink List 2024 winners were selected through a comprehensive analysis of performance data from January 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024. The analysis evaluated cannabis businesses in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon, highlighting their exceptional achievements and leadership. Honorees include brands and retailers that led their states in total sales or demonstrated extraordinary growth. Additionally, top-selling products across categories such as cartridges, concentrates, edibles, flower, pre-rolls, and topicals were celebrated for their widespread consumer appeal. The LeafLink Innovators category spotlighted companies making strides in areas such as social equity and technology adoption.
To further celebrate the winners and give back to the community, LeafLink will be making a donation to Defy Ventures. Defy Ventures is a national nonprofit whose mission is to shift mindsets to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance through entrepreneurship, career readiness, and personal development training programs delivered both in prison and in the community. Defy’s vision is to cut recidivism (return-to-prison) rates in half by leveraging entrepreneurship to increase economic opportunity and transform lives. Defy supports currently and formerly incarcerated people in defying the odds across nine states and more than 26 prisons throughout the country.
Today, December 11th at 3pm EST, LeafLink will be hosting a fireside chat to celebrate the LeafLink Lists 2024 winners with a special guest from Defy Ventures. To register to attend, please head here.
About LeafLink:
Founded in 2016, LeafLink is the wholesale cannabis industry’s leading B2B technology platform helping thousands of customers in 30+ markets. LeafLink believes that better access to modern financial services will propel the industry towards sustainable growth. In July of 2024, LeafLink announced the acquisition of leading cannabis banking platform Dama Financial in order to provide access to safe, reliable, and compliant banking. In 2024, LeafLink was included in the Fast Company, Best Workplaces for Innovators List in the Banking, Finance, and Fintech category and was also awarded Green Market Report’s Best Cannabis Fintech.