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Laird Superfood sells foods and drinks that emphasize natural ingredients, nutrition and functional benefits. Coffee creamers are its largest sales category, followed by coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Its acquisition of Navitas added baking and pantry products and snacks to the range. Outside manufacturers mix and package its products, and logistics partners store and ship them.
Consumers buy through lairdsuperfood.com and Amazon, while retailers and distributors buy through its wholesale business. Online and wholesale sales contribute roughly equally. Subscribers and repeat buyers provide most sales on its own websites. Costco, United Natural Foods, KeHE Distributors and Amazon are important routes to consumers; separately, three customers account for a large share of total sales.
The business depends on repeat purchases and on outside partners maintaining supply, product quality and delivery. It buys a substantial share of its products from two suppliers. The Laird Superfood brand also depends on founders Laird Hamilton and Gabrielle Reece and their public image. Its license to use specified identity and publicity rights is limited: objections from the founders can delay or prevent new uses beyond previously approved uses and product guidelines.
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Laird Superfood’s results depend more on repeat purchases of coffee and creamers, expansion into retail stores, and coconut and coffee procurement costs than on the broader protein-snack market.
Oatly’s oat drinks compete with Laird Superfood’s coconut-based creamers as plant-based additions to consumers’ coffee, so adoption of dairy alternatives matters to both. Watch Oatly’s work with foodservice customers on drinks and menus: it says trials there can build demand that later reaches retail, where Laird also sells its creamers.
Hain Celestial’s Celestial Seasonings teas and health-oriented beverages compete with Laird Superfood’s teas and drinks for wellness shoppers and grocery shelf space. Watch Hain’s news on shelf space and promotions: those are competitive pressures on the retail expansion that helped drive Laird’s wholesale growth in 2025.
Simply Good Foods overlaps with Laird Superfood in selling functional nutrition powders, beverages and protein snacks to wellness shoppers through stores and online. Its Quest, Atkins and OWYN shelf presence shows the competition Laird faces in nutrition aisles, though Laird decided to discontinue Picky Bars in the second quarter of 2026 and redirect resources to its Laird Superfood brand.
BellRing Brands competes for consumers’ daily nutrition spending with its protein shakes and powders, against Laird Superfood’s functional drinks and supplements. Watch sales of its Premier Protein shakes as a gauge of that competition, rather than a direct read on repeat purchases of Laird’s coffee and creamers.
EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change (Oct/16)
Changes in crude oil and gasoline stocks can signal fuel-price pressure, which may raise Laird Superfood’s production and delivery costs and reduce the margin left from sales of its creamers, coffee and other products.
Read falling stocks as a sign that tighter fuel supply may raise Laird Superfood’s production and delivery costs; rising stocks may ease those costs, with the effect on margins depending on how prices move.
The Simply Good Foods Company earningsSMPL
Simply Good Foods’ report will show how functional nutrition products are selling in stores and online, where its brands and Laird Superfood compete for wellness shoppers.
Look at sales across Simply Good Foods’ brands, particularly demand for nutrition drinks and snacks in stores and online. Steady sales would suggest shoppers are still spending on functional nutrition, supporting demand in channels where Laird Superfood competes; weaker sales would point to a tougher fight for those shoppers and shelves, which Laird must win with its own products and distribution.
Oatly Group AB earningsOTLY
Oatly’s report will show whether foodservice demand for oat drinks is reaching retail, a shared coffee use where consumer adoption also matters to Laird Superfood’s coconut creamers.
Read foodservice demand alongside retail sales. Strength in both would suggest that more consumers are taking to plant-based drinks in coffee, supporting the shared use case for Laird Superfood’s creamers; foodservice growth without retail follow-through would show that the demand has not yet reached the shelves where Laird sells.
Laird Superfood, Inc. earningsThis company
Laird Superfood’s report will show whether growth through retailers and across its products can keep pace with pressure on the gross margin from input costs.
Read wholesale sales growth alongside gross margin. Continued wholesale growth with a steady margin would show that retail distribution and sales are adding revenue without further eroding the return on each sale. Wholesale growth with a falling margin would show that input costs are still eating into the benefit of added sales, leaving the quality of growth in question.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at stores; that spending can affect orders through Laird Superfood’s grocery and club retail customers and sales of its creamers, coffee and other products.
Stronger retail sales suggest consumer spending may support orders from Laird Superfood’s grocery and club customers; weaker sales may mean fewer orders and more consumers trading down from its premium natural products.
