The man behind the Grenade bar - Entrepreneur Alan Barratt Tells his Story
Anything Goes with James English
Anything Goes with James English
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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Anything goes with James English Ep/99 Alan Barratt tells his story. Alan is the founder and CEO of Grenade and is one of the biggest entrepreneurs in the Uk. Alan has built a globally recognised brand over the last 10 years which has helped millions of people reach their health and fitness goals. Alan and his wife Juliet Barratt started the company with just £27 in 2010 and sold Shares from it for £72 million seven years later. Grenade has been named as one of the UK’s fastest growing companies and was featured in The Sunday Times’ Fast Track Top 100 in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and is now sold in over 80 countries. This episode is sponsored by HIF kitchens https://www.hifkitchens.co.uk/?fbclid... You can contact James English on his social media platforms ⬇️⬇️ http://instagram.com/jamesenglish2 http://twitter.com/jamesenglish0 http://Facebook.com/Jamesenglish11
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:11.1 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:13.9 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P and Dau Ferries, there is another way. Oh, Boom we're on! Today's guess we've got Mr Grenad Allen Barrett. How about you |
| 0:51.5 | brother? Nicely said I'm very good thanks. Nicely pronounced barter. |
| 0:54.8 | Barat. Yeah a lot of ours and there's a lot of ours. How you been? |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, good. Yeah, I'm quite tired. There's been a lot of podcasting, a lot of |
| 1:03.4 | filming, a lot of content, lot of stuff going on, but it's all good fun, so every |
| 1:07.1 | day is a new day. So try and get a decent night sleep. |
| 1:10.1 | What podcasting? People cutting my grass, Alan? |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, yeah, you've got competition. |
| 1:15.0 | I know this is a good one, so I'm looking forward to this one. |
| 1:18.0 | Anything goes. A man who started the grenade bar, the most selling bar of chocolate in the UK, biggest selling? |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, so we're now, yeah, as of last year actually, we're now the number one selling, |
| 1:29.6 | I mean we're number one selling protein bar in the UK for for years but that wasn't that difficult |
| 1:33.6 | because it's not that big an industry but when we found out we kind of made the |
| 1:38.2 | top far we found out we were in the top 15 selling chocolate bars we started to get quite exciting because you sort of think |
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