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Gord McDougall: Small Business Investor
November 25, 2023

Gord McDougall is a Canadian investor who addresses the struggles small and medium-sized businesses experience from attracting equity partners to surviving business setbacks. Gord highlights the imp

Profile: Legend Kombucha, Verona, Italy
November 16, 2023

Origins In 2018, Stefano Zamboni visited a cousin in California, tried kombucha, and on returning to Italy, founded Legend Kombucha in 2020 in his hometown of Verona, the setting for Shakespeares Two

Profile: Shropshire Kombucha, Shrewsbury, England
November 14, 2023

Regional identity Shropshire Kombucha is based in the English market town of Shrewsbury, 30 miles to the west and a world away from the industrial cities of Wolverhampton and Birmingham. Its a deligh

The Gary Leigh Interview – Part 2 of 2
October 31, 2023

Gary Leigh, the owner of Go Kombucha is the founder of Englands original commercial kombucha business. Part One covered the companys origins and the direct-to-consumer varieties sold. In Part Two, h

The Gary Leigh Interview – Part 1 of 2
October 30, 2023

Gary Leigh, the owner of Go Kombucha, Sussex, England, sat down for an interview with Booch News. We spoke for over an hour. In Part One of the interview (30 minutes), Gary shares the story of the fou

Profile: Peterston Tea Estate, Vale Of Glamorgan, Wales
October 18, 2023

In 2014, Lucy George transitioned from harvesting strawberries to growing tea on her family farm now known as the Peterston Tea Estate in the Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales. What started a

Profile: All About Kombucha, Galway, Ireland
October 04, 2023

Emmett Kerrigan and Keith Loftus founded All About Kombucha in Claregalway, Ireland, in 2017. After finishing college, they spent two years in Vancouver, Canada, where they first came across kombucha.

Profile: STEALTH Naked Kombucha, Massachusetts
September 02, 2023

Following the recent re-posting of the video where Stphane Erler of Taiwans Tea Masters interviews STEALTH Naked Kombucha founder Ronald Chapdelaine and the follow-up profile of Tea Masters, this pr

Profile: Tea Masters, Taiwan
August 24, 2023

Following the recent interview of Ronald Chapdelaine of STEALTH Naked Kombucha by Stphane Erler of Taiwans Tea Masters I called Stphane to find out more about his upscale tea export business. Ronal

Starting Out: J’s Kombucha, St Paul, Minnesota
August 09, 2023

This is the eighth in the series of Booch News posts telling the stories behind new commercial kombucha brands. The inspiration for Starting Out was NPRs How I Built This. While Js Kombucha was