Year in Review: Female Founder Series, Launching St. Hildie's, and Much More

Alexi Cashen is the Co-founder and CEO of Elenteny Imports, a multifaceted logistics company dedicated to growing its partners’ businesses in the wine, beer, and spirits industry. She is also the Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of St. Hildie's Spiked Tincture Tonics, boozy craft tonics made with natural ingredients and botanical tinctures.

Alexi is fondly called the “Chief Executive Optimist” — spreading the gospel of empathetic customer service, sales panache, and meticulous operations. She scours ideas and drives home solutions, strategy, and above all else, positivity! Alexi is also the host of The Alexi Cashen Podcast, where she talks with inspirational people in the wine, beer, and spirits space.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

Alexi Cashen discusses creating a new retail model for brands to partner with restaurants without losing their individuality
How connecting with other entrepreneurs can be a great resource to recharge and replenish your brand
Alexi talks about the importance of compliance and culture within a brand
Alexi explains how women are revolutionizing a male-dominated industry
Why shifting to an e-commerce retail platform can help promote and grow your brand
Alexi details curating wine packages and listings to align yourself with the right partners
How brands are embracing diversity, health, and hedonism
Alexi shares why macroeconomic factors and tangible data are crucial for scaling a brand

In this episode…

Ever wondered how — and why — brands scale and thrive in the wine and alcohol beverage industry? Where can you find the tools for success of brands that engage in the same struggles?

This week, Alexi Cashen highlights brand e-commerce, retail models, and entrepreneurial struggles and solutions in the wine and beverage industry. From flavors and ingredients, mentorships and inspiring women’s roles, and importing and distribution, this episode has it all. Dig into this collection of inspiring stories and industry aspects.

In this episode of The Alexi Cashen Podcast, Rise25 Co-founder John Corcoran sits down with host Alexi Cashen to talk about Alexi’s most memorable past episodes and encouraging conversations. Alexi shares how brands pivoted during challenging times to produce growth, ways women are refashioning the industry, and how the alcohol beverage industry is embracing diversity and inclusion.

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Elenteny Imports is an alcoholic beverage logistics and compliance service that alleviates back-office work so that clients can focus on what they do best: sourcing and sales. Elenteny works with importers of all sizes, distributors, marketing agents/brokers, and wineries, and they guide their partners through a myriad of intricacies of the three-tier system offering logistics, consolidation, importing, customs, freight, drayage, and back-office administration for inventory management, invoicing, collections, and compliance.

Elenteny is licensed in all 50 states and they import over 1 million cases of wine, beer, and spirits annually. They create competitive advantages for their customers through customized cargo and information flow by employing the use of superior technology to provide transparency and access to information that’s crucial to expanding business and accelerating growth.

To learn more about their services, send them an email at info@elentenyimports.com or visit their website today.