Mark Anthony Doubles Down on Flavor

Dear Client:  Mark Anthony Brands held their annual distributor meeting in Chicago yesterday, where your editor filtered in behind Cayman Jack sunglasses.  MAB is hanging in there among top suppliers, about flat in dollars and down 3% in volume so far this year in Circana scans.  The company presented ambitious plans with some new flavor and package innovations (while not adding many SKUs -- Mark Anthony's past and current SKU restraint remains distributor-friendly), peppered along the way with founder Anthony