August: The journey begins for entrepreneur Nicci Clark. With a background in critical care nursing, she starts a pioneering diet company, Nourished, specialising in nutritionally balanced fresh meals delivered to the door. Soon it becomes very apparent her fresh healthy soups are a winner. Customers including the cast of Downton Abbey crave her soups long after their health programmes have finished.
July: Nicci becomes a fully qualified nutritionist.
January: 3am Nicci has a lightbulb moment in the Nourished kitchen. Her brainchild; grab and go soups in a heatable bottle.
November: Inspired, she travels to the states in search of a heatable bottle, only to find it doesn’t exist…anywhere in the world.
July: Nicci decides she will be the one to create the world’s first heatable, fully recyclable bottle for soup, and Re:Nourish is born.
January: After 9 months of design and hundreds of prototypes, the first Re:Nourish bottle is born.
March: She presents her soups to the world at the IFE Excel London and Re:Nourish wins Best Health and Wellness Food.
April: Planet Organic’s London stores begin selling Re:Noursh.
September: Waitrose stocks Re:Nourish in all 314 stores. The first new brand ever to get full national listing.
October: Karen Holland joins Re:Nourish as Chief Operating Officer.
December: Re:Nourish wins Grocer Top Product Launch of the year.
January: CO-OP launches Re:Nourish in their food to go stores. Ocado launches Re:Nourish. Selfridges launch Re:Nourish.
FEBRUARY: Re:Nourish is Finalist for Grocer Gold Start Up Of The Year (The Oscars for food and drink). Louise Steer Joins Re:Nourish as Director of Operations.
April:
3 soups become 5 soups in Waitrose.
Covid19 lockdown hits the UK. Re:Nourish donates 10,000 bottles to hospitals and those in need.
August: Re:Nourish secures Brakes contract.
September:
Doeler Ventures and a private angel invest in Re:Nourish. Belief in the little bottle keeps growing.
Re:Nourish goes platinum. 1 million bottles sold in the UK.
Our first extensive OOH advertising campaign, ‘We’ve got the bottle’ launches across the UK.