36 min
A Leading Foodpreneur On Fundraising and Pork Scratchings With Nick Coleman The Smart Connector
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- Entrepreneurship
Nick Coleman is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Snaffling Pig, a Buckinghamshire (UK) premium food and drink brand, and the most popular food brand to have ever been crowdfunded - with £1.3m raised from over 1,940 investors. Nick founded Snaffling Pig, which is a savoury snack based on pork crackling, in 2014 with just £500. In 2016 he took part in the 14th Season of BBC2 Dragons Den, winning funds from angel investor, Nick Jenkins. In 2017 he won The Virgin Foodpreneur Award. By September 2017, the business had grown to £1m a year. 18 months after that revenues exceeded £3m. Snaffling Pig subsequently won a host of other awards including: Winner Natwest GBEA National UK & Northern Ireland Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year 2019, Winner GBEA Entrepreneur of the Year London & South East 2019, Winner GBEA Food & Drink Brand of the Year 2019 London & South East 2019, and Winner of Buckinghamshire's Best New Business 2016.
As a serial entrepreneur, Nick also co-founded Medical Supermarket, an industry-leading healthcare supplier to the primary care and care sectors, which runs a large scale medical and cleaning supplies distribution business, delivering to over 3,500 locations each month from a warehouse facility in Aylesbury. His most recent venture, with his business partner Udhi Silva, is Startup Logistics, which helps grow food startups, by providing slick, profitable and easy direct-to -consumer sales channels, which include inventory management, picking, packing, despatching orders, building gift packs, writing personalised messages and texting customers when their orders are on the way. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)
ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives.
Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML
Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass
Nick Coleman is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Snaffling Pig, a Buckinghamshire (UK) premium food and drink brand, and the most popular food brand to have ever been crowdfunded - with £1.3m raised from over 1,940 investors. Nick founded Snaffling Pig, which is a savoury snack based on pork crackling, in 2014 with just £500. In 2016 he took part in the 14th Season of BBC2 Dragons Den, winning funds from angel investor, Nick Jenkins. In 2017 he won The Virgin Foodpreneur Award. By September 2017, the business had grown to £1m a year. 18 months after that revenues exceeded £3m. Snaffling Pig subsequently won a host of other awards including: Winner Natwest GBEA National UK & Northern Ireland Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year 2019, Winner GBEA Entrepreneur of the Year London & South East 2019, Winner GBEA Food & Drink Brand of the Year 2019 London & South East 2019, and Winner of Buckinghamshire's Best New Business 2016.
As a serial entrepreneur, Nick also co-founded Medical Supermarket, an industry-leading healthcare supplier to the primary care and care sectors, which runs a large scale medical and cleaning supplies distribution business, delivering to over 3,500 locations each month from a warehouse facility in Aylesbury. His most recent venture, with his business partner Udhi Silva, is Startup Logistics, which helps grow food startups, by providing slick, profitable and easy direct-to -consumer sales channels, which include inventory management, picking, packing, despatching orders, building gift packs, writing personalised messages and texting customers when their orders are on the way. (Entrepreneur Spotlight)
ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives.
Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML
Discover Jane’s Ideal Client Success Accelerator Programme here: www.idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass
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