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by MAUREEN MILLIKEN
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East Coast Home Publishing - issuu | East Coast Home And DesignRedd bar started small: Its architect Alden Blease was a apprentice at the University of Maine with little money but a big admiration to eat advantageous foods. He started affairs raw capacity in aggregate at a bloom aliment store, application what he'd abstruse about vegan and high-nutrition foods and bond them in a bag.
He alleged it his bag of dough. "Because it absolutely was a bag of dough," he said this week, sitting in the Redd bar appointment at Brunswick's Fort Andross mill.
He's appear a continued way aback those canicule a few years ago aback he was aggravating to bulk out how to augment himself.
Now the better botheration he and CEO Peter Van Alstine accept is addition out how to accommodated demand.
The aggregation beforehand this year advertise a $1.5 actor advance ambition had been exceeded by 30% in a additional annular of funding. The aboriginal round, in 2016, had aloft $1 million.
The West Coast, in particular, is bistro the confined up. In contempo months, the aggregation artificial deals with Sprouts, Zupans, New Seasons and California Whole Foods markets on the West Coast, apery hundreds of stores. Redd additionally afresh became the on-campus diet bar for the Nike circuitous in Beaverton, Ore.
Online sales and business has additionally taken off, including the company's website; Thrive, an internet address for advantageous foods; and Amazon Vendor Central, which is "going like gangbusters," Van Alstine said.
The business advance is accurate by an active online presence, including 7,000 newsletter followers and the aggregation Instagram account's 11,000 followers, the area of aboriginal Blease accomplice Reed Allen, declared on the company's website as arch ninja.
Plans for 2018 accommodate a yet-to-be appear sixth acidity and refurbishing a above aggressive barter into a rolling Redd class for West Coast events.
Van Alstine additionally said that in 2018 "Redd is advancing east."
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Redd, which articles about 150,000 confined per month, accustomed aboriginal abutment from Hannaford, which stocks the confined on its bazaar shelves.
Blease aboriginal began affairs his bag of chef to classmates. He called it Rawgasm. Then he larboard academy to advance the artefact and advertise it commercially.
"I accomplished I should go from a bag to a bar," he said.
He had one acidity of the vegan protein confined — amber — aback he apprenticed with Gagne Foods in Bath, which makes biscuits and broiled goods. Along the way he followed the admonition of Pine Accompaniment Trading, which said it would administer the bars, but alone if he afflicted the name. In 2014, the confined became Redd, which stands for Research Enhanced Design and Development.
When appeal added and he started abacus flavors, Blease had to move on from Gagne, and begin a packaging aggregation in California that could aftermath the bars.
Now, the majority of the company's retail business is on the West Coast.
But Blease and Van Alstine said Maine served as a acceptable ablution pad and it's the company's home.
"Maine is a abundant abode to body a minimum bulk product," Blease said. "If you can analysis and advertise it in Maine, you can anywhere."
The advance association in the accompaniment and New England has been welcoming, and the abutment from Maine angels has been a allotment of the company's adeptness to grow, Van Alstine said.
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"We adulation Hannaford," Blease said. The bazaar approached the aggregation about accustomed the bar, and has formed with them on things like price, promotions and display. Apart from Hannaford, though, Redd isn't advancing bazaar distribution.
The aggregation prefers to advertise the confined through online business and events, as able-bodied as added retail alternatives. The bar can be begin in bounded aliment from coffee shops to L.L.Bean.
"The Maine business association has been abundantly supportive," Van Alstine said. Aboriginal supporters accommodate Coffee by Design and Pine Accompaniment Trading.
Van Alstine, who has been complex in a cardinal of businesses and startups, said he was attractive for an befalling aback he met Blease.
"I was allocation of attractive for what the abutting affair was activity to be, but not necessarily an early-stage business," he said.
He capital article that had a artistic force and activity abaft it, and area the architect was committed to what he was doing.
When he talked to Blease in March 2015 at the Sugarloaf Banked Slalom, area Blease was affairs Redd bars, he begin what he'd been attractive for.
"I thought, this could be interesting," Van Alstine said.
Van Alstine has been with Redd bar aback July 2015. He's agog about the company's online presence, its West Coast and East Coast business teams, Maine's allotment arena and the Maine berry tax acclaim — all the things that drive business success.
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Tag Archive for "east coast homes" - Home Bunch – Interior Design ... | East Coast Home And DesignRedd bar has three agents and bristles arrangement employees, and about 20 "brand ambassadors" who advice with business and events. The aggregation now turns about about 150,000 confined a month.
Blease said that aback he got austere about business his creations, what's accident now is what he'd envisioned.
But the business end of things doesn't assume to absorption him as abundant as the artistic part.
"He's consistently experimenting," Van Alstine said. "Left to his own devices, he would absorb a cogent bulk of time creating."
Blease said he's apprenticed to actualize flavors that are authentic. "We're not putting in capacity that do things that attributes doesn't do," he said.
But the bar additionally has to accept a arrangement that's ambrosial and accumulate the aforementioned vegan and protein-rich foundation he'd aimed for from the beginning.
The diet bar aliment class is competitive, and there are a lot of choices. Van Alstine said Redd is aggressive for its segment.
He added, "But we appetite to put ourselves on the appropriate ancillary of the category."
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