Eat Drink Innovate

Eat Drink Innovate

Susie White dives into the stories of food and beverage start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs from around Australia, to find out how their innovative products are shaking things up in the food industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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April 20, 2020 15 mins
In this Season 2. wrap-up episode, I share the 3 reasons why and how Food Entrepreneurs, especially those from Small and Medium Sized Businesses, are succeeding in an unprecedented way versus traditional Big Food companies.
Over the last 7 years, the most innovative and high growth products are actually coming from Food Entrepreneurs in start-up and scale-up businesses. These products account for less that 3% of sales in the market ...
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Richard Adamson, Oscar McMahon and Dan Hampton are the co-founders and directors of Young Henrys. Young Henrys is a group of brewers, distillers, musicians and artists, united in their passion for making exceptionally good beer, cider and spirits with a deep commitment to supporting their local community.
In this episode, you’ll hear about a meeting of minds in 2012, with Richard’s experience in brewing, and Oscar’s hospitality know...
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March 9, 2020 44 mins
Sam McFarlane owns and operates a social media and content management agency called Sam Says, which creates stand out social and online content for small and medium businesses and solopreneurs. Her philosophy is that no matter what business you’re in, if you're not social online, you’re invisible, because when you’re amazing at what you do, why wouldn’t you want the world to see it?
In this episode, Sam shares the ‘do’s’ and ‘do...
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February 24, 2020 38 mins
Franziska Iseli is the co-founder of Basic Bananas, a marketing agency that helps small businesses around the globe to attract customers and grow through marketing education and mentoring.Their philosophy is that the more you upgrade your marketing knowledge and strategy, the more your business will flourish.
In this episode Franziska walks us through how to create a simple and powerful 1-page Marketing Plan that will immediately fo...
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February 10, 2020 54 mins
Ryan Hartshorn is the co-founder, director and Head Distiller at Hartshorn Distillery, a Tasmanian micro distillery that’s the first in the world to make boutique batches of Vodka and Gin from sheep whey, a by-product from their family business, Grandvewe Cheeses.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Ryan and his family ran the Grandvewe sheep cheesery for 13 years, before Ryan bought a copper still off eBay and against all odds, learnt...
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January 20, 2020 42 mins
Tristan Kitchener is the Founder and Director at Kitchener Partners.They’re a specialist consulting and advisory firm focused on grocery retailing and the grocery value chain for retailers, manufacturers and growers. Their goal is to increase product ranging, performance and growth of FMCG goods within grocery retailing.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Tristan how to gain ranging within a major grocery retailer in Australia, who t...
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Hayley Blieden is the founder of The Australian Superfood Co., which is dedicated to increasing the awareness, accessibility and affordability of the distinct flavours and health-enhancing properties of native Australian superfoods.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Hayley was inspired to research the health properties of native foods that were being used by indigenous sports athletes who she worked with as a sports dietician. Determ...
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December 23, 2019 36 mins
Alison Swindells is the Business Development Manager for Australasia at thefoodpeople. They’re a global food trends and ideas agency who have a shared love of food & drink and a passion for gastronomic trends. Their goal is to help small and large businesses develop market-winning products and big food ideas.
In this episode, Alison shares ‘hot off the press’ predictions for 2020 and beyond about global macro drivers and trends ...
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December 9, 2019 31 mins
Tom Griffith is the co-founder, with friend Emma Welsh, of Emma & Tom’s.It’s a premium natural juice and snack bar business, that uses minimal processing, all natural ingredients and no added sugar to boost people’s health and vitality.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Emma & Tom stepped out of international careers with a lot of knowledge about investment banking, Ag-science, Cordon Bleu culinary and financial marketing, bu...
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November 25, 2019 35 mins
George Gekas is the CEO and co-founder of Badalya, a Melbourne-based food and beverage catalyst that specialises in scaling up food start-ups into national and global markets.
Badalya provides individuals and small companies with mentors and a team of professional experts to guide them through the next stage of scaling up their validated business, in the shortest period of time, with the least amount of capital.
In this episode, you’...
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November 11, 2019 41 mins
Francisco Caffarena is the co-founder with Michael Harder of Sprout Stack. It’s an indoor farming business, that’s set to revolutionise the way fresh produce is grown and distributed in Sydney.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Francisco and Michael are driven to overcome the challenges of weather disruption, climate change and food miles, that face traditional crop growers.
Their combined skill sets, in agricultural science, electric...
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October 28, 2019 38 mins
Tom Dawkins is the CEO and co-founder of StartSomeGood, a social enterprise that enables cause-driven crowdfunding, innovative partnerships and social entrepreneur education. Their goal is to get people together to help change the world.
In this episode, you’ll learn about the key characteristics of a Social Enterprise, what makes for a successful crowdfunding campaign and how building a business with social purpose has the power to...
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October 21, 2019 38 mins
Mitch Well is the co-founder, with brother Alex, of Billy Van Creamy, an ice cream business that makes natural, organic and vegan ice cream, just like you would make it at home from fresh and simple ingredients like milk, cream, sugar and eggs.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Mitch and Alex’s entrepreneurial journey started with a home ice-cream maker and a gap they spotted in the Melbourne food truck scene for sweet desserts.
With ...
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October 7, 2019 39 mins
Bronte Hogarth is the founder of Raise The Bar, a social enterprise which transforms spent coffee grounds from local cafés into coffee scrub bars with zero waste packaging.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Bronte’s eco-entrepreneur upbringing and desire to lead a zero waste lifestyle, promoted her to step-change from a career in digital marketing to start her own waste upcycling skincare business. Her goal is to help reduce the 100,...
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October 7, 2019 4 mins
Welcome back, you’re in for another inspiration-packed season of the Eat. Drink. Innovate podcast. I’m Susie White, a product innovation coach, author and podcaster in Melbourne Australia and this Season I’ll be talking with food entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups to get behind the scenes and find out how they’re building successful businesses and making their mark on the Australian food industry. And I’m mixing things up a li...
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Hello everyone, I’m Susie White and this is a special wrap-up episode celebrating the end of Season 1. of the Eat Drink Innovate podcast. Instead of interviewing a single food entrepreneur, start-up or innovator, in this episode you’ll hear about the top 5 limiting beliefs about starting a food and beverage business and how to overcome these. Everything piece of advice is based on the combined wisdom of the dozens of successful foo...
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December 12, 2018 35 mins
Shila Barak is the Product Development Manager of Well & Good, and daughter of the business co-founder, Sam Barak.
Well & Good is at the forefront of the gluten-free food industry. They create high quality, gluten and allergen-free flour and baking mixes of cakes, biscuits and bread. They also make allergen-free ready baked breads including, hamburger buns, baguettes and sliced bread.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Sam was ...
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November 28, 2018 38 mins
Nathan Wakeford is the co-founder, with Ben Kelly, of Somage Fine Foods.
It’s a specialty beverage company known for their premium Kali drinking chocolate, Chamellia specialty tea blends, and raw goods like matcha powder and chai spices, which are sold through food service channels.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Nathan mixed their first drinking chocolate in his Melbourne lounge room and twelve years on, this Kali drinking chocola...
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November 14, 2018 43 mins
Tahlia Mynott is the co-founder with Scott Turner of Made With Raw Love. They make raw chocolate and cacao elixirs with certified organic and wild harvested ingredients.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Made With Raw Love is really a love story all in itself. On one of Tahlia and Scott's first dates, Scott prepared some frankincense and honey raw chocolate. The use of healing oils in chocolate was a source of inspiration for Tah...
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October 31, 2018 50 mins
Andy Fist is one of the co-founders, with Shaun Malligan, of Kooee Snacks, which produces a range of healthy, high-protein, 100% beef jerky snacks made in Tasmania. Unlike many of its competitors, Kooee jerky caters for active, healthy people of any gender, who share the founders’ love of participating in outdoor activities.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Shaun encouraged Andy to embrace his closet-obsession for beef jerky in New ...
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