Jo Fairley - Green & Black's
Green & Black's got its sales and marketing strategy right.
Cathal Gaffney of Brown Bag Films has made the journey from college dropout to feted CEO by virtue of hard work, self-reliance and an endless passion for animation.
Corkman Tom Kearney travelled the exotic historial spice routes of the East before coming home and setting up his own spice company Spice O’Life in Dunmanway.
When the founders of Clevamama couldn’t find specific baby products for their online business, they invented them themselves. Now their innovations are stocked in Tesco, Smyths and Mothercare International.
Sahar Hashemi is well known for being the co-founder of one of the UK’s original coffee brands, Coffee Republic, in 1995 along with her brother Bobby. By the time she exited the business in 2001, it was making a profit of £30m sterling and had built up a portfolio of 100 stores.
Since coming to Ireland in the Eighties, joint managing director and co-founder of Shabra Plastics and Packaging Rita Shah has successfully diversified the company to be a leader in recycling and manufacturing of plastics products.
There’s quite a contrast between Noelle O’Connor’s early days in a one-room salon in Newbridge, Co Kildare to where she is now as the woman behind Tan Organic, a trailblazing tanning product.
The evolution of Green & Black’s is a textbook exemplar of how to get your sales and marketing strategy right on target, but according to the organic chocolate brand’s co-founder Jo Fairley, it wasn’t a conscious decision at the outset.
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