Retail Ready Podcast

Hear from the founder of Funday Sweets, Daniel Kitay. In todays epsiode Daniel drops numerous business knowledge bombs and shares his story about how Funday Sweets can now be found in over 4000 distribution points in Australia. 

Hear from the founder of Feel Good Foods, George Giannakopoulos.  Feel Good Foods came to be in 2009 when we started selling milk alternatives from the back of a truck to the local Melbourne cafe market. Today they continue to deliver an awesome range of alternative food and bev brands to hundreds of cafes, independent grocers, and gourmet stores across Victoria and Tasmania.  Hear in todays epsiode the jourey, the lessons, the ups and downs and a costly container during Covid!   

Enjoy listening to how Scott set up Raw C. Raw C's mission is to bring you Australia's best tasting, all-natural coconut water, coconut milk and coconut oils. In 10 years, Scott has managed to gain majority share hold of a huge category. Hear about Scott's journey and enjoy the several knowledge business bombs he drops throughout this session. 

Roz turned an ice cream hobby into a thriving business, that's also giving back Lawyer and scientist Roz Kaldor-Aroni has turned her ice cream hobby into a thriving business. As the venture grows, she is also giving back to communities in Australia and abroad.  

Listen to how Gordon built a complete meal replacement business in Australia then quickly took it multinational.  The idea started while Gordon was studying and needed a healthy shake that contained all the nutrients he needed. Gordon then started making this complex smoothie meal for his friends and family who really enjoyed it too. That's when the light-bulb moment came... he thought: "why can't I make this for everyone else to enjoy and benefit from!?". From this moment the hard work to develop vybey commenced and alongside our extensive team of food scientists & nutritionists, we produced a great tasting ready-to-drink meal fit for the global market. Check vybey out here - https://vybey.com.au/

Suzanne empowers product-based entrepreneurs to build and grow a successful business, focusing on profit first and having the time to enjoy a life you love. Suzanne unknowingly has helped save my own business, thousands of dollars. Every day I find her insights and knowledge fantastic and I am not even a client of hers. Suzanne has also grown her own business, Sol Breads from $800k to $30m.  Enjoy the epsiode. 

Welcome Alex Swift, Commercial Business Director of Salad Servers. Salad Servers can be found in many retail stores in the fresh produce section. Hear Alex talk about the journey of the family business and how it has adapted to the changing consumer. 

Welcome Cian Dawson, the co-founder of Gymbod. Gymbod is now launched nationally in Coles and has a fantastic start up story behind it.  In this epsiode we talk and laugh about the Gymbod journey.  It has not gone all smooth sailing, enjoy. 

Welcome Hayley Westoby who is the founder of Gambit Collective.  In todays epsiode we talk about: - Personal branding, what do people say about you when you leave the room? - The power and opportunities of Linkedin - Workplace culture and quiting your job. - Fitness

I wanted to dedicate an episode to highlight my first year in business with Doggylicious and summarise what I have learnt as well as provide some stats as a lot of you guys have followed this journey since day one.  To start things off, here are some Doggylicious headline stats from year 1 in business: $75K in annual sales. 13,000+ units have been packed by hand. 104,000+ cookies visually inspected before being pack and consumed by dogs. 450+ hours on my feet have been spent packing cookies. We had several Key Loyal Partners that believed in Doggylicious this year (Eastern Distributors, Health Magic, Pet Circle, Catch, Go Vita, Coles Local, OTR).  Over 100+ 4 or 5 Star Reviews on com.au. 2 Additional products launched, Yoghurt Drops and Carob Drops. Over $30k of sales from LinkedIn networking. 2,202km driven to drop of stock. 1 neighbour trying to close down my business.  Zero times I wanted to give up.