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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/06\/29\/aperitif-haus-the-naked-market\/<\/a><\/br> Haus<\/a>, an aperitif company that tried to find a buyer last year after investor funding dried up<\/a>, now has one.<\/p>\n The Naked Market<\/a>, founded by Harrison Fugman and Alex Kost, has acquired certain assets of the low-ABV (alcohol by volume) beverage company from CPG Holding Co. and is now relaunching a few of Haus\u2019 customer favorites, including Citrus Flower, Pomegranate Rosemary and Grapefruit Jalape\u00f1o.<\/p>\n Helena Price Hambrecht and then-husband Woody Hambrecht, launched Haus in 2019, and it quickly grew a following with millennials looking for beverages with all-natural ingredients, fun flavors and direct-to-consumer delivery.<\/p>\n When asked about the sale, Price Hambrecht told TechCrunch via email, \u201cI am very glad to see the brand live on. I will always be incredibly proud of what we built, and look forward to seeing what the new owners will do with it in this next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n Fugman and Kost told TechCrunch that they did not know the Hambrechts prior to the purchase. The opportunity to grab select consumer-facing assets of Haus, including the brand and the intellectual property, stemmed from their experience in the space owning brands like Rob\u2019s Backstage Popcorn and Flock Foods, and their own history as Haus customers.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven our background as foodies and operators in the food and beverage world, we were admirers of the brand and business that Helena and Woody created,\u201d Fugman said. \u201cWe viewed Haus as one of the most iconic brands that\u2019s been built in the industry over the past decade. Very few brands had an impact on the industry and consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n Though the global beverage market is huge<\/a>, it\u2019s also kind of a small world. Both Haus and The Naked Market share a mutual investor, Great Oaks Venture Capital, though Fugman noted the VC firm was not involved in the acquisition.<\/p>\n By 2022, the company was seeing $10 million in revenue<\/a> and had a national distribution deal. It also attracted venture investors, raising $17 million on rolling SAFE notes from a group that included Homebrew, Haystack Ventures, Coatue, Shrug Capital and Worklife Ventures.<\/p>\n However, Haus was not immune to pandemic-related challenges, including supply chain woes and word-of-mouth not growing as intended.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was difficult to build the business that I wanted to build during the pandemic considering we were building a social product,\u201d Price Hambrecht told TechCrunch at the time. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have people gathering, we didn\u2019t have natural word of mouth. We were a purely digital growth brand during that time, great for acquisition but not good for monitoring long-term behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n Price Hambrecht chronicled the company\u2019s journey on Twitter<\/a>, and in August, after additional investor capital didn\u2019t come through, told followers that Haus would go through a process called Assignment for Benefit of Creditors, an alternative to bankruptcy, which is where assets are put into a trust for the purpose of liquidation or distribution to pay off debts. Any assets left over go back to the debtor.<\/p>\n In November, Price Hambrecht updated that the sale did not lead to a buyer, tweeting<\/a>, \u201cToday the banker running Haus\u2019 sale process informed me that the auction has concluded, and the company did not sell. Candidly, I did not expect this. He said this was a surprise to him as much as it was to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAfter aperitif ambitions sour, Haus is back on virtual shelves via The Naked Market<\/br>
\n2023-06-29 22:03:11<\/br><\/p>\nHow Haus lost its buzz<\/h2>\n