BOL - Business growth with a passion for life, food, making veg sexy and sustainable capitalism.
BOL is a disrupter brand in the food and drink marketplace, doing incredibly well with £25 million in business growth in retail sales this year. Still hungry for more, CEO Paul Brown has a passion for life, food and making veg sexy.
He sat down with CP's Head of New Business Relationships, Ben Eason, to talk all things purpose, risk, growth and sustainable capitalism.
They also reminisced about their university days. This lively chat is full of tasty conversation and can be heard in its entirety HERE. Here are the key topics you can jump to if you are short on time.
00.01 From Innocent to BOL today.
00.07 What is the vision for BOL?
10.32 Award-winning meat dishes to drop meat, fish and dairy. “Pivot” as a business term is overused. This is how you pivot.
14.26 How do you convince your investors that dropping your best sellers and cutting your revenue in half is a good idea for the future?
21.32 What is the CEO’s role when creating a culture?
25.40 How do you maintain culture through rapid growth?
29.01 Intergenerational diversity – Gen Z, millennials, are they harder to recruit and retain?
35.01 What’s the future of BOL?
39.16 Failure as a positive in business learning is overused. Failing sucks and costs you.
42.17 Is the CEO the ideas man, or do you have to listen to your team?
44.03 Through this journey, what business advice would you have given yourself 20 years ago?
48 min