Ep 14: Conquering the US Market: How Lisa King's AF Drinks Scored Shelf Space in Sprouts, Target, and Walmart

Episode 14 October 16, 2024 01:00:22
Ep 14: Conquering the US Market: How Lisa King's AF Drinks Scored Shelf Space in Sprouts, Target, and Walmart
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Ep 14: Conquering the US Market: How Lisa King's AF Drinks Scored Shelf Space in Sprouts, Target, and Walmart

Oct 16 2024 | 01:00:22

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Hosted By

Felicity Carter

Show Notes

How do you launch a category-busting brand from New Zealand and storm into the US market? Lisa King can tell you, because she’s done it. A serial entrepreneur from New Zealand, King's first venture, Eat My Lunch, tackled the issue of child poverty in New Zealand with a buy-one-give-one model that provided thousands of free lunches to Kiwi kids. Her current venture, AF Drinks, is a non-alcoholic beverage company that is rapidly gaining traction in the US and Australia.

In this episode she talks about how she formulated a non-alc cocktail that experienced tasters identified as alcoholic, from how she assembled the right team and how she unlocked funding, to how she landed on retail shelves throughout the USA.

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And even how meeting Barack Obama is like meeting Santa.

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