At a glance
Cresco Labs is a Chicago-based, publicly traded multistate cannabis operator founded in 2013. It cultivates and manufactures cannabis, distributes a portfolio of consumer brands to company and third-party stores, and operates dispensaries under the Sunnyside name. “Cresco” can mean the parent company or its namesake product label; this profile separates the two.
Founders and early company
Charlie Bachtell is Cresco’s current co-founder and chief executive. Joe Caltabiano is also widely identified as a co-founder and served as president before leaving in 2020. A 2018 corporate filing used a broader founder/control group that also named Robert Sampson, Dominic Sergi and Brian McCormack. That filing is more precise than reducing a multilateral startup to a single founder.
What the parent company does
Cresco is vertically integrated across cultivation, manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail. Its 2025 annual filing says the company operated across eight regulated state markets—Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan and Florida—with 13 production facilities. In May 2026, Cresco reported 79 open dispensaries, including five partner locations receiving operational support, across those markets.
The house of brands
The current owned portfolio includes Cresco, High Supply, Mindy’s, Good News, Remedi, Wonder Wellness Co. and FloraCal Farms. The names serve different product and price lanes: Cresco centers flower, live-resin vapes, pre-rolls and concentrates; High Supply emphasizes larger-format flower and vapes; Good News and Mindy’s include edibles; Remedi covers measured oral, topical and extract formats; FloraCal is positioned around selected flower genetics.
Availability is not national in the ordinary consumer-goods sense. State licenses determine which brand, format and formulation can be produced and sold, and some products are manufactured by state subsidiaries or partners. A label appearing on Cresco’s corporate site does not guarantee that it is legal or stocked in every Sunnyside store.
Sunnyside dispensaries
Sunnyside is Cresco’s retail banner. Stores sell Cresco-owned products alongside third-party brands, and Cresco also wholesales its brands to independent licensed dispensaries. Current menus, medical versus adult-use access and delivery rules are local. The company’s May 2026 count includes owned locations and a small number of managed partner stores, so “79 dispensaries” should not be rewritten as 79 identically owned outlets.
Acquisitions and market changes
Acquisitions have shaped the footprint. Cresco bought Massachusetts operator Cultivate in September 2021, adding three dispensaries and cultivation/manufacturing capacity; those Cultivate stores later became Sunnyside. The company also announced a California exit in July 2025 and reported completing that divestiture on October 31, 2025. It retained the FloraCal brand while leaving direct California cannabis operations.
Social-equity and research programs
Cresco’s SEED initiative—Social Equity & Educational Development—supports workforce development, reentry and industry access for communities disproportionately affected by cannabis prohibition. The company also describes a research relationship with Temple University. Those programs establish activity and intent, not proof of a specific medical outcome or an independent measure of community impact.
Awards and claims
Cresco markets several products as award-winning, but the current corporate and securities sources reviewed here do not provide one complete, current award ledger with event, year, category and entrant for the whole portfolio. Rather than turn that marketing phrase into an unsupported trophy list, this page points readers to product-specific records when a named award can be verified.
Public-company context
Cresco trades publicly and publishes audited financial statements, securities filings and operating metrics. Its March 2026 results reported 2025 revenue of $656 million and a $140 million net loss, including large non-cash impairment charges. Those figures help explain the California exit and emphasis on core markets; they are company results, not product-quality scores.
Sources and verification scope. Checked August 23, 2026: Cresco’s official company and brand pages; its 2025 annual information form and first-quarter 2026 filing; the 2018 founder-control filing; the 2021 Cultivate acquisition release; and the 2025 California restructuring release. Counts are dated because the store and managed-services footprint changes.