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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

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SWOT Analysis Examples

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Sedibeng’s primary market advantages are their company culture, consistent “quality” branding, traditional brew recipes, and commitment to rural distribution. Operating without a website is increasingly rare, and ignoring this weakness for too long could have disastrous consequences. SWOT analysis for Sedibeng Breweries. Expansion.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Maryland was the first U.S. What about the rest of us?

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How to Start a Brewery

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For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

Oregon 60
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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

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She sells her products in 11 stores and two restaurants in and around Oregon House, California, where Freja’s Foods currently operates. Freja Nelson’s been in business for 18 months, making a completely vegan, organic and soy-free alternative to meat called VegiMeat. “My business really, really needed this break.”

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5 Shark Tank Lessons Every Startup Should Understand

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I’m a member of an angel investment group based where I live in Oregon. More often, it’s secret formulas, secret ingredients, trade secrets, and relationships with channels of distribution. Services are great for owner operators, but not a great opportunity for investors. Occasionally it’s a matter of a strong patent.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

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Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”. The cook and the lawyer.

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