I crowdfunded £400k for my ice cream company in just two weeks and now it’s set to make £1m
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(From naturallycoconuts .com and coconutsnaturally .com to coconutsorganic .com)
AS a child, Cecily Mills got her first taste of business when her and her sister would sell free perfume samples at school for 50p each.
Thirty years later, the Cornwall-based businesswoman is the founder of Coconuts Organic - a rapidly-growing dairy-free ice cream brand which is set to turn over £1m next year.
Cecily managed to secure £80k of investment from friends and family (as well as investing all her own savings and maxing out her credit cards) and then began taking her ice cream to health food shows around the country.
On top of this, Cecily became a mum to Lara, four, and Hero, two, when she moved to Cornwall to set up the business- but didn't let motherhood stop her from wanting to turn Coconuts Organic into a household name.
It was at this point that she made the brave decision to apply for Dragon's Den with aim of securing a further £75,000 investment - and after several rounds of interviews and screen tests, she appeared on the hit BBC show in 2018.
Needless to say, Dragon's Den proved to be amazing exposure for the brand - thanks to notoriously hard-to-impress Peter Jones declaring it the "best ice cream" he's ever hand - and Cecily walked away with a £75k investment from Jenny Campbell in exchange for a 30 per cent stake in the business.
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read more (the sun uk)
(From naturallycoconuts .com and coconutsnaturally .com to coconutsorganic .com)
AS a child, Cecily Mills got her first taste of business when her and her sister would sell free perfume samples at school for 50p each.
Thirty years later, the Cornwall-based businesswoman is the founder of Coconuts Organic - a rapidly-growing dairy-free ice cream brand which is set to turn over £1m next year.
Cecily managed to secure £80k of investment from friends and family (as well as investing all her own savings and maxing out her credit cards) and then began taking her ice cream to health food shows around the country.
On top of this, Cecily became a mum to Lara, four, and Hero, two, when she moved to Cornwall to set up the business- but didn't let motherhood stop her from wanting to turn Coconuts Organic into a household name.
It was at this point that she made the brave decision to apply for Dragon's Den with aim of securing a further £75,000 investment - and after several rounds of interviews and screen tests, she appeared on the hit BBC show in 2018.
Needless to say, Dragon's Den proved to be amazing exposure for the brand - thanks to notoriously hard-to-impress Peter Jones declaring it the "best ice cream" he's ever hand - and Cecily walked away with a £75k investment from Jenny Campbell in exchange for a 30 per cent stake in the business.
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