Finance & Fundraising News
The Practical Guide to Establishing a 13-Week Cash Flow Model
Dwight x Eventus 8-Step Implementation and Management Guide If you’ve read our previous blog, Seven Tips for Maximizing Cash Flow, you’re familiar with our top recommendation for managing unpredictable cash flows: the 13-Week Cash Flow Model. This powerful tool offers a near-accurate reflection of your company’s liquid cash balance, down to the dollar. However, the…
Read MoreQuarterly Consumer Review
We’re back with the first Quarterly Consumer Review of 2024. Throughout the past quarter, we’ve been avidly collecting compelling industry news in order to see which product categories are capturing consumer and investor attention in today’s unpredictable economic climate. Despite investors maintaining the conservative approach that defined the fundraising landscape in 2023, several equity groups…
Read MoreDwight’s 2023 in Review
2023 presented it’s fair share of both opportunities and challenges for digitally native and omnichannel brands in the consumer products space. Investors adopted a more conservative approach than previous years, forcing many brands to pivot growth strategies to focus on profitability at all costs. Despite having to make some fundamental strategic changes, many brands are…
Read MoreQuarterly Consumer Review
We’re back for the third installment of Dwight’s Quarterly Consumer Review, and we have much to discuss. 2023 has flown by for food & beverage brands channeling energy and capital toward growing their retail footprint, for digitally native brands breaking into brick-and-mortar, for investors closing new funds, and for all of us following along for…
Read MoreSeven Tips for Maximizing Cash Flow
Mastering your company’s cash flow can be a daunting task, but having the right tools in your toolbelt can make all the difference between success and failure for a CPG brand. In this blog, we’ll explore seven tips and tactics for shortening cash cycles and maximizing your cash flow. Let’s dive in. 1. The Power of…
Read MoreDwight x CPG Wire Present: Quarterly Consumer Review
April 1st — June 30th, 2023 CPG Wire is back for the second installment of our quarterly industry report with a slew of updates following an eventful quarter for the consumer products industry. We’ve been following along as brands secured fresh funding, collaborated with each other, launched behind new doors, released new products, and exited the…
Read MoreDwight x CPG Wire Present: DTC Trends & Fundraising Index
Janaury 1st — March 31st, 2023 Leading CPG Working Capital Provider Dwight Funding and DTC news aggregator CPG Wire combine expertise to present the first-ever index of the latest fundraises and trends across food & beverage, beauty, and general consumer product categories. Those of us who know DTC know that we have one of the most…
Read MoreComparing Revenue Based Financing and Asset-Based Lending
In today’s environment, scaling businesses have access to a variety of funding options. If you’ve looked at financing options, you’ve probably come across Asset-Based Loans (ABL) and Revenue-Based Financing (RBF). Both provide non-dilutive access to capital, but they differ in lending structure and how they think about risk. In this post, we’ll explore their differences…
Read MoreDwight’s 2022 in Review
It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. From our vantage point, CPG in 2022 was shaped by inflation, the conscious consumer, staying power of DTC amidst diversification to other channels, and a shift away from 3rd party data. Between tinkering with promotion strategies, to upping the ante on green & social good…
Read More12 Ways DTC Founders Can Respond to the Decline of Cookies & Third Party Data
When Apple released the landmark iOS14 update in 2021, it permanently changed digital marketing. Along with giving iPhone users the option to review and restrict how third parties could track their activity and data, Apple also upped the ante on App Tracking Transparency (ATT) and Privacy Nutrition Labels for app developers. Firefox and Safari quickly…
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