In January 2025, Cizzle Brands announced its initial placement in select Metro locations in Ontario. An expanded product range has now been added to more than half of all Metro stores in Quebec.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – March 25, 2025 - Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the “Company” or “Cizzle Brands”), is pleased to announce that METRO Inc., food and pharmacy leader in Québec and Ontario, has started carrying CWENCH Hydration™ in Metro stores in the province of Quebec, alongside Metro stores in Ontario that are already carrying CWENCH Hydration™ products.
Cizzle Brands continues to strategically scale the brand footprint of CWENCH Hydration™ across Canada, and this placement fortifies the Company’s growth in the Quebec market. Recent developments in Quebec include commercial site distribution of CWENCH Hydration™ through Montreal-based Van Houtte Coffee Services (who services over 3,000 locations in the Montreal area alone) and full distribution across MacEwen-owned gas stations in both Ontario and Quebec.
In a press release dated January 9, 2025, Cizzle Brands announced that 47 Metro supermarkets in Ontario were to begin carrying Hydration Mix packets of CWENCH Hydration™ in their pharmacy sections.
Based on early-stage performance of CWENCH Hydration™ in Metro’s Ontario stores, Cizzle Brands has worked with METRO Inc. to make the following additional placements of the product in the grocer’s Quebec locations:
• CWENCH Hydration™Ready-to-Drink (“RTD”) Rainbow Swirl, Blue Raspberry, Cherry Lime, and Berry Crush flavours are now sold in approximately 130 Metro supermarkets in Quebec; and
• Hydration Mix in the 10-Count packet format for CWENCH Hydration™ flavours Rainbow Swirl and BlueRaspberry are now sold in approximately 100 Metro supermarkets in Quebec.
As of December 21, 2024, METRO Inc. operates a network of some 995 food stores under several banners including Metro, Metro Plus,Super C, Food Basics, Adonis and Première Moisson, and 640 pharmacies primarily under the Jean Coutu, Brunet, Metro Pharmacy and Food Basics Pharmacy banners. More information about METRO can be found on its website: https://corpo.metro.ca/en/home.html
Cizzle Brands’ Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, “We are pleased that CWENCH Hydration™ has performed well in Metro supermarkets in Ontario, leading to an expansion into their locations in the Quebec market. Grocery is proving to be an important category for us, particularly because there are many more opportunities to drive awareness of new products (e.g., through floor displays, weekly flyers, etc.) which we can leverage to encourage first-time purchase conversions. Working with the METRO Inc. team has been a great pleasure for us, and we look forward to continuing this relationship as we seek to further establish CWENCH Hydration™ as a leading name in sports beverages.”
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 1,200 stores inCanada, 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: https://www.cizzlebrands.com/
For more information about CWENCH Hydration™, please visit: https://www.cwenchhydration.com
CIZZLEBRANDS CORPORATION
“John Celenza”
John Celenza, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
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Setti Coscarella
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