Tamanna
Do³±czy³: 05 Mar 2024
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 Meeting Bernadette from Kuna Foods |
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Meet our entrepreneur Bernardita Olivos , who is Founder & CEO of Kuna Foods , a Chilean company of healthy snacks for girls and boys, called “puffs”. What is your innovation about? “Puffs are an extruded cereal, made exclusively from rice, fruits and vegetables. It is a vegan, gluten-free and label-free product. No added sugar or salt. One of its great characteristics is that it dissolves in the mouth in contact with saliva, therefore, an infant can consume them from 8 months of age, promoting independent feeding and helping the development of fine motor skills. In addition, our puffs aim to be part of a circular economy by being made with discarded fruits and vegetables.” puffs-kuna-food-udd-ventures What was the ideation stage of the project like? “I was a mother.
When my eldest son started eating, I realized the lack of healthy products suitable for infants in the national market, and that's where this journey and the creation of Kuna Foods began." What Phone Number List were the first steps? “Meet with food engineers and entrepreneurship experts, who told me about Corfo funds and companies to develop the prototype.” What difficulties did you encounter at the beginning? “It was a totally new product in Chile, and achieving dissolution in a child's mouth while avoiding choking was not easy. On the other hand, the flavor, it is very difficult to "test" the products with children, and especially with babies, therefore, choosing the flavors and their intensity was more of a personal feeling.
What are the characteristics of your team to overcome the challenges and move the company forward? “We are a small team, but varied; I am a nutritionist, in charge of the development of new products and administrative area, Josefa is a commercial engineer, in charge of sales and marketing, and Ramón is a lawyer, who advises us on all legal issues. “We have been growing quite a bit this year with entry into retail, so we are looking to expand the team a little more.” How advanced is the project today? “Last year we did our first capital raising thanks to which we generated our first industrial production. This year we entered two of the country's largest retail stores, in addition to more than 120 points of sale throughout Chile in specialized stores.
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