
Ali Cox
Founder and CEO of Noble West, an agriculture and food marketing agency; fifth-generation California farmer and Olympic silver medalist rower.
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Oct 20, 2026
De-Commoditizing Food With Ali Cox
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10:23CJ BruceHOST
I don't have any specific examples, but I think that comes to mind of when consumers are going to shop and they're looking for what's cheapest to buy or maybe they have certain qualifiers, but Check a little bit about that building, you know, building brands in the commodity category.

Ali CoxGUEST
I mean, I would say that decommoditizing food is a special passion point privilege of mine.

Ali CoxGUEST
I think that if we don't actually spend the time understanding what consumers want, and particularly with domestic food, if like we don't, and really in California grown food, and we're working on a couple of different commodity projects in Idaho and nationally.

Ali CoxGUEST
And this is where I think that our clients are saying, hey, we do things really, really well here.
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22:41CJ BruceHOST
You could take this any way you'd like, but we'd love to get some specifics on some brands that you think are doing a great job in the space.
Cannes 2026: Re-Engineering Sourcing Lines: Quality Over Portion Abundance | Ali Cox, Noble West, CEO
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Dylan ConroyHOST
And were there any conversations with any marketers this week that you didn't expect to be relevant, but they ended up becoming relevant because of the stories that you guys like to tell?

Ali CoxGUEST
how I kind of strategize my week run what day four or day five was really about finding opportunities to learn about the brand building part of it.

Ali CoxGUEST
Obviously the strategy part, because I think that's more the most relatable to the challenges that I have.

Ali CoxGUEST
And of course I absolutely love my network of agency owners, especially female agency owners, women owned, um, and have spent a lot of time with the own it group and also my worldwide partners, agency, um, colleagues, um, But I really just kind of focus on learning new ways to build brands and build connection amongst our clients and our partners.
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