Preston entrepreneur wins over Dragons

Kirsty Henshaw of Preston coolly put out the Dragons fire on BBC Dragons Den last night. Entering the room with her Worthenshaws Iced Pudding Kirsty presented the product with a modest certainty and assuredness that couldn’t fail to impress.  At times it all seemed too good to be true; a product that was healthy, gluten and nut free, looked like ice cream but wasn’t, all done by one young person who admits to not being academic, works 2 and a half jobs to pay for it and has a young son. 

Having been encouraged by a large supermarket and a large ice cream manufacturer it seemed all the boxes had been ticked.  Theo offered a substantial investment more than requested, and then Peter and Duncan coming in equal, Kirsty was comfortable in accepting a joint offer that took 30% of the business for the sum she wanted, £65,000.  In the end this iced pudding might be invented in Preston but didn’t seem likely to be made in Preston, even so this is a good example of entrepreneurial activity. Let’s watch this space, this is really good stuff.  No doubt the appearance was a great advert and reading the website the product is already out there in many health shops.

Here is a link to the BBC Kirsty page: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/entrepreneurs/kirstyhenshaw.shtml

Here is a link to Worthenshaw’s website: http://www.worthenshaws.co.uk/

Coconuca, coconice.

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