SAMBAZON was founded on sustainability. We know that in order to
continue providing great tasting, organic Açaí products, conserving the
rainforest is essential to our growth and development.
We scraped together enough money to buy a container of frozen pulp and
some marketing fliers and began trying to convince juice bars in
Southern California that açaí was the real deal. By the end of that
first summer, over 50 juice bars were selling Sambazon Açaí Smoothies.
We started expanding all over the country, approaching the best juice
bars we could find in places like South Beach, New York City, Boulder
and Oahu’s North Shore. We did endless samplings, demos and promo
events, and people loved it.
We have been working with the local non-governmental
organizations (“NGOs”) to build the supply of organic and sustainable
açaí. Over 10,000 people in the Amazon help us harvest açaí through our
certified organic program. These people now have an incentive to manage
their land and protect it for generations to come.
Today our products are sold in virtually every health food store,
juice bar and conventional grocery store in North America we continue to
work hard to spread the word about açaí.
“There
is no one solution to save the Amazon rainforest. A wide range of
sustainable and effective initiatives are needed to keep the forest
alive and this can only be achieved if economic alternatives and
solutions to destructive logging can be found….The tasty dark violet
wine (of açaí) is the most important non-wood forest product in terms of
money from the river delta of the Amazon”. -Greenpeace.org
We
encourage individuals and institutions to support social, environmental
and scientific programs that will both preserve the Amazon and unlock
its potential to aid mankind.
We
are very grateful that we have been given the opportunity to share this
incredible fruit with the world and we want to say thank you to all
those that have supported us along the way.
Sincerely,
Team Sambazon
