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Cizzle Brands' CWENCH Hydration™ Now Sold in all 84 Locations of Pure Hockey
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the 'Company' or 'Cizzle Brands'), is pleased to announce that Pure Hockey, the leading retailer of hockey equipment and supplier in the United States, is now carrying Cizzle Brands' flagship product CWENCH Hydration™ in all 84 of its stores. This store-wide placement, facilitated by sports nutrition distribution giant Muscle Foods, adds retail availability of CWENCH Hydration™ in 32 U.S. states and builds on the availability of CWENCH in the U.S. following the Company's announcement that CWENCH Hydration™ is the official hydration partner of USA Hockey. Pure Hockey initially launched CWENCH Hydration™ in 25 of its stores starting in April 2025 and with its strong sales performance and engagement, Pure Hockey has decided to make it available across all of its stores, which now carry: Hydration Mix: All four original CWENCH flavours (Berry Crush, Blue Raspberry, Cherry Lime, and Rainbow Swirl) in the 10-count individual serving sleeve format, as well as the 45-serving 315 gram container format. The Tropical Flow flavour by Coach Chippy is also being carried in the 10-count format. Ready-to-Drink ('RTD'): All four CWENCH flavours, in addition to Tropical Flow, as well as the recently announced new flavours Celly Freeze and Pink Lemon Flow. All 84 stores will have CWENCH-branded refrigerators on display so that CWENCH Hydration™ RTD beverages can be purchased chilled. Merchandise: CWENCH-branded Team Bottles, Spouted Bottles, and Shaker Cups About Pure Hockey Pure Hockey is headquartered outside of Boston, MA. The company was founded in 1994 and was acquired by David Nectow and Sal Tiano in 2008. Nectow and Tiano started their hockey business in 2002 with the purchase of one hockey retail store in Massachusetts. Pure Hockey has since expanded organically and through strategic acquisitions and now operates two ecommerce sites and 84 stores in 32 states across the U.S. under the Pure Hockey and Pure Goalie brands. Pure Hockey is the Official Hockey Equipment Retailer of USA Hockey and the Retail Partner of the NHL/NHLPA's Learn to Play Program. More information about Pure Hockey can be found on its website through the following link: Cizzle Brands' Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, 'Our strategy has always been to spend the first 12 months following launch to systematically develop a strong footprint for CWENCH in Canada. With distribution across Canada's leading specialty retailers like SportChek, Canadian Tire, Pro Hockey Life, Source for Sports and Golf Town, as well as Canada's leading grocery chains like Sobeys, Safeway, Longos, Metro, Fortinos, London Drugs and others, we've hit that out of the park. Now we're taking that playbook and building our presence in the U.S. That started in earnest with CWENCH Hydration becoming the exclusive hydration of USA Hockey. Now it's accelerating with Pure Hockey, the largest hockey retailer in the U.S. which is carrying nearly the full range of CWENCH products in all of their stores. The U.S. is a huge market for us to conquer but we've proven our strategy in Canada and now we're excited to begin executing our U.S. strategy.' About Cizzle Brands Corporation Cizzle Brands Corporation is a sports nutrition company that is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration™, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 3,300 locations in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle. For more information about Cizzle Brands, please visit: For more information about CWENCH Hydration™, please visit: On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company, CIZZLE BRANDS CORPORATION 'John Celenza' John Celenza, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer This news release contains "forward-looking information" which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, such as, but not limited to: new products of the Company and potential sales and distribution opportunities. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.
Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Cizzle Brands' Flagship Product, CWENCH Hydration™, Becomes Official Hydration Partner of Massachusetts Hockey, Minnesota Hockey, and Michigan Amateur Hockey Association
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the 'Company' or 'Cizzle Brands'), is pleased to announce that it has further expanded its presence in the United States by entering into multi-year sponsorship agreements with the official USA Hockey affiliate organizations for each of Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Michigan. Massachusetts Hockey Under the terms of the sponsorship agreement, CWENCH Hydration™ will be the Official Hydration Beverage of Massachusetts Hockey, an organization that supports over 44,000 youth hockey players in the state and 6,600 hockey coaches. In addition, CWENCH will become Presenting Sponsor of #MassProud (the organization's official newsletter) and Massachusetts Hockey will also provide Cizzle Brands with experiential marketing and sampling opportunities for CWENCH Hydration™ at tournaments. Digital initiatives will include year-round presence of the CWENCH brand on Massachusetts Hockey's website, as well as collaborative posts on social media and email campaigns promoting CWENCH Hydration™. For more information about Massachusetts Hockey, please visit: Minnesota Hockey Minnesota Hockey oversees close to 60,000 hockey players in the state, which represents over 1% of Minnesota's population, making it the largest state affiliate under USA Hockey. Under its agreement with Minnesota Hockey, the CWENCH Hydration™ brand will be widely promoted by the organization through its event-based and digital channels using promotional methods and tactics that include, but are not limited to, the following: 'Bench Recognition' at select events, consisting of CWENCH-branded bottles, towels, and other items to be used by players and team personnel; On-site activation opportunities for game attendees through tables or display booths with CWENCH Hydration™ samples; Print advertisements in select Minnesota Hockey tournament and event programs; Print advertisements in Minnesota Hockey's publications including Let's Play Hockey (10 issues per season distributed across over 120 arenas in Minnesota), and Minnesota Hockey Journal (four issues per year, circulation of 75,000 per issue); Video advertisements during regional and state tournament games (645 games broadcasted annually on Digital promotions through Minnesota Hockey's social media profiles (over 50,000 aggregate followers); and Leveraging Minnesota Hockey's long-standing presence at the Let's Play Hockey Expo at the St. Paul RiverCentre (world's largest consumer hockey show) to host a CWENCH booth or facilitate product giveaways through Minnesota Hockey's booth at the two-day event. For more information about Minnesota Hockey, please visit: Michigan Amateur Hockey Association, Inc. (MAHA) MAHA supervises the activities of over 2,500 amateur hockey teams involving more than 50,000 players. Under the sponsorship agreement with MAHA, CWENCH Hydration™ will be recognized as MAHA's 'Official Hydration Partner' and MAHA will continuously publicize the CWENCH Hydration™ brand through its digital and social channels through a schedule of email blasts, social media posts, and a banner advertisement on the official MAHA website. CWENCH Hydration™ will also be featured through in-rink branding at MAHA hockey games with booth space for on-site activation. During live streams on CWENCH Hydration™ commercials will be shown in-game, along with a series of pre-game rolls and announcer in-game sponsor reads. For more information about MAHA, please visit: The agreements with Massachusetts Hockey, Minnesota Hockey and MAHA follow on Cizzle Brands' April 3, 2025 announcement that its flagship brand CWENCH Hydration™ is now the Official Hydration Partner of USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport of ice hockey in the United States. USA Hockey's constituency includes more than one million players, coaches, officials, and volunteers across the country. The combination of these agreements position CWENCH as the go-to drink for youth hockey players in the US. Since launching CWENCH Hydration™ in late May of 2024, Cizzle Brands has curated a portfolio of sponsorships, endorsements, and promotional arrangements with teams/organizations as well as individual players and figures in grassroots athletics across North America. In addition to Massachusetts Hockey, Minnesota Hockey, and MAHA, these include Cizzle Brands' sponsorship agreement with Canlan Sports (anchored by the CWENCH Centre multi-rink arena in Toronto), CWENCH Hydration™ title sponsorships of the All Canadian Volleyball Games and All Canadian Basketball Games, as well as a collaboration with Canadian hockey influencer Coach Chippy. Cizzle Brands' Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, 'As an organization, Cizzle Brands has always been enthusiastically supportive of grassroots hockey, and so we are very proud to be adding to CWENCH's visibility among players, their friends/families, coaches, trainers, and the loyal fans who cheer for their local teams across the United States. Throughout 2025, we are strategically commercializing the CWENCH Hydration™ brand in specific U.S. regions which include Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Michigan. We were able to leverage our status as the Official Hydration Partner of USA Hockey to establish these state-level partnerships, which will help to drive awareness of CWENCH Hydration™. Our aim is to make CWENCH Hydration™ a household name among hockey families, and these immersive sponsorship agreements will play a key role in working towards this objective.' About Cizzle Brands Corporation Cizzle Brands Corporation is a sports nutrition company that is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration™, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 3,000 locations in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle. For more information about Cizzle Brands, please visit: For more information about CWENCH Hydration™, please visit: On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company, CIZZLE BRANDS CORPORATION 'John Celenza' John Celenza, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer This news release contains "forward-looking information" which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, such as, but not limited to: new products of the Company and potential sales and distribution opportunities. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.
