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Product Special: Sambazon PowerCapsTM
Earlier this month, Dr. Mehmet Oz went on The Oprah Winfrey Show and added Açaí to
his "Ultimate Anti-Aging List".
Thanks Dr. Oz!!
We love how we look and feel when we put Açaí in our diet every day. The
whole food
synergy of Açaí's powerful antioxidants (anthocyanins), omega fats, fiber, phytosterols and other vitamins and minerals and are tough to
beat for health, beauty and vitality. Eating and drinking Açaí is true pleasure but our popular organic Açaí PowerCap
supplements are a pretty convenient way to make sure you're getting your daily dose. PowerCaps - simply 100% pure freeze-dried Açaí in
veggie capsules - can be taken once or twice a day like you would a vitamin, giving you a powerful boost of nutrition and 'inside out' youth and
beauty benefits! Get some for travels, and maybe gift a bottle to a friend or family member too!
For our Zona Sul subscriber special of the month (good until March 31, 2008) - go to our shopping cart and use the coupons below when
checking out to get these great discounts.
1 Bottle = $7 off: powercaps1
2 Pack = $10 off: powercaps2
3 Pack= $15 off: powercaps 3
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Açaí Beauty!
Our lovely friends from tarte cosmetics (tartecosmetics.com) just launched a fantastic new "health couture" t5TMsuper fruit cosmetic
collection featuring
double dose lipgloss in acai boost-- which the Sambazon ladies just loooove! tarte uses sustainably
harvested Sambazon Açaí inside their new products, and like our friends from VeeV Açaí Spirit, also contribute to our Sustainable Açaí Project in the Amazon Rainforest. As a
special offer for Zona Sul subscribers, tarte is offering 25% off of all purchases through the month of March--all you have to do is enter
promo code: "acai" upon checkout.
Also, if you purchase Sambazon PowerCapsTM on special this month, we're
automatically entering you in our Açaí Beauty Sweepstakes where we're giving away 3 double dose lipglosses and 3 full blossom cheek stains.
We know true beauty comes from the inside but it's great to look hot on the outside too!
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Events & Happs
We've had lots of
special events and happenings this past month starting with travels to Park City, Utah where Sundance festival goers enjoyed Sambazon juices,
smoothies and sorbet - coming back every day for more! (One day we'll go and get to see the films!!) We then made our way to the 12th Winter X
Games in Aspen, Colorado, where the queens of the mountain and big Sambazon supporters, Torah Bright, Lindsay Adams Hawkins, and Gretchen Bleiler,
among many other riders, dropped in the Athletes' Lounge for their daily dose of Açaí. Our last event took us to NYC, where we joined
Deutsche Bank Group DWS Scudder in transforming lower Manhattan into the Amazon Rainforest to vividly demonstrate the potential impacts of global
warming to raise awareness of DWS' new climate-change investment
fund. You can check out some of the photos by clicking here and read more about this event
on Sambazon's new blog!
Above: BMX Pro and Dew Tour Vert Champ Jamie Bestwick powers up with Sambazon at Winter
X
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Team Sambazon Profile: Belen Kimble and Josh Fuller
Team Sambazon riders Belen Kimble and Josh Fuller have been surfing professionally for over
10 years each, and they've also traveled the world and taught surfing extensively. Conscious as well as a shredding surfer, Belen has often
emailed on the road saying how proud she is to put Sambazon's logo on her board. For those of you interested in traveling "Down Under", Belen and
Josh just started the Salty Girls Surf School and Josh runs the Cabarita Beach Surf School in Cabarita Beach, Australia so they can
share their love for the ocean and the sport with surfers of all levels.
Congrats Belen and Josh, and keep on sharing the stoke with all of the surfers out
there!
Pictured above - Belen showing us how its done
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Purple Smile Club x 2!
One year old twins Makai and Maddox enjoy their Açaí popsicle style! Mom
Nicole ate Açaí all thru pregnancy to keep her healthy and energized - which she needs more than ever keeping up with her pair of turbo
crawlers and 5 year old at home!
Send your purple smile to purplesmile@sambazon.com
Generation Sambazon
We loved seeing this picture of 9 year old Adrianna Pensiero from Matthews, North
Carolina. Adrianna created her school project on Açaí and Sambazon's work in the Amazon Rainforest (and she got an A!).
Adrianna we're hoping to see you as Sambazon summer intern 2019!
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In the News
Big month! In addition to being named to Dr. Oz's ultimate anti-aging
list on
the Oprah Winfrey Show earlier this month, nutritionist Keri Glassman included Açaí as part of her proactive heart-healthy diet on the CBS
Early Show last week, saying exotic fruits have benefits "so much better" than orange juice. Watch the story here.
And The Wall Street Journal featured our good friend Tony Gonzales - All-Star
NFL Player with the Kansas City Chiefs - for his training regime of a primarily plant based diet. Make sure to check out the story and video
where Tony shows us his smoothie recipe for the athlete elite!
Thanks everyone for your support!
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Samba Blog
We launched our new Sambazon blog last week! Authored primarily by Sambazon
co-founder Ed Nichols ("Skanda"), the blog will also feature entries from Sambazon employees, athletes and friends. Events and news will be posted as
well.
We're really excited about this new portal to reach out to you all and let
you know a little more about what's going on in our heads. Keep checking for our latest posts at: sambazon.blogspot.com.
Comments welcome!
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Retail Update
Our friend Jon Gordon, America's energy coach, called us last week to say how excited he was to see us at
his local Publix. We have parent's pride too when we walk in a grocery store and see our bottles on the shelf- and we're launching our juices
and smoothies in many new grocery stores around the country. Look for us soon at King Soopers in the Rockies, Shop Rite in New Jersey and King Kullen
in Long Island. We're also expanding into Kroger's stores throughout Cincinnati, Texas, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. And juice bar chain Keva
Juice is now carrying Sambazon açaí in their smoothies in all 70 locations.
Keep checking our store locator for new stores in your area.
Thanks for supporting us, telling others and buying our products!
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Create Positive Change: Read!
Part of the joy of working in our industry comes from the insights and wisdom
that the leaders in the natural foods and organic food movement pass down to us, and our dialogue about nutrition and the creation of earth-friendly
solutions with our peers. Even with our 24/7 global access to info, there's still no substitute for a well thought out
book that educates, challenges, raises our consciousness and ultimately sparks our imagination. Keep exercising your brain! Some classics and new
ones to check out here:
Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe
"In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan
"Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating" by Jane Goodall
"How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" by David Bornstein
"Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World" by Gary Hirschberg
"Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business" by Gary Erickson and Lois Lorentzen
"The Lost Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization" by Mark London and Brian Kelly
"One River" by Wade Davis
"Make Gentle the Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy" by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
Next month in the Zona Sul
An "organic chef to the stars" opens her own restaurant!
And highlights from Natural Products Expo - the largest natural products showcase in the country!!
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Employee Profile: Leah Howe
Leah began working with us a couple years ago as one of our natural foods brokers in
the Northeast, and then became a key part of our New York sales team. Now as our Eastern US Promotional Assistant, Leah's enthusiasm for life and
authentic spirit make her a natural to represent Sambazon in the field where she manages in-store demo plans for all East Coast new store rollouts
and existing store support, as well as coordinates and executes East Coast based events. Leah's passions include using and learning
about food as medicine, dancing and all movement for healing/spiritual release/ "just plain sweating." She's been a self-taught herbalist for
over a decade and has been studying nutrition and cooking whole foods for a life long journey. She practices yoga, hula hoops, and
kickboxes intermittently. Her favorite Sambazon product is original sorbet with homemade granola, coconut, bananas, Dagoba spicy cocoa nibs and Manitoba Harvest hemp seeds- yummy!
What Leah loves best about Sambazon is working with the public and "educating and
learning and sitting in on what is one of the greatest and most important dialogues of our time: How we can contribute to supporting a
sustainable future...and have healthy/nutritious products and spread the word about all of it to as many communities as possible."
Leah thank you for 'living the questions' with all of us!
Sambazon is
the largest vertically integrated supplier and marketer of Açaí
products, controlling every step of the manufacturing process to ensure
sustainable and organic origin of the fruit as well as the highest
level of
quality, nutrition and taste.
Zona Sul is the area in Rio where Açaí became popular with the local
surfers, jiu jitsu fighters and capoeristas in the mid to late 90's.
The traditional Rio-Bowl became the ultimate way to start the day by
fueling up before a workout. Word travels fast and today Açaí is
becoming a dietary staple for health conscious people all over the
planet.
For more information, go to: www.sambazon.com
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