The founder of Fearne & Rosie is on a mission to return the sweet in households in the UK
Rachel Ketluel still taught part-time with three young children at home when she registered her startup at Healthy Jams in 2019. Three years later, she deepened her business, but even then it was after initially taking Saturday from the educational sector.
This turned out to be a wise and beneficial solution. Since their creation in order to be stocked in 10 farm shops in Yorkshire, Fearne & Rosie has since provided national lists in more than 5100 stores across the country, from Waitrose to Holland & Barrett.
With the £ 2m revenue forecast for the 2025 financial year, the manufacturer of low sugar cans has a three-year revenue plan of £ 7 million and is considered the fastest growing jam in the UK’s grocery.
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Success can be aimed at its content: 40% less sugar and 70% more fruits than standard ones, using all natural farm ingredients in the UK and Europe.
“It’s not a fantastic secret recipe, it’s just really obvious,” Kethaluel says.
“This is a big part of why we started. I’m not from the food industry, I’m just a teacher and so when I looked at the shelf products and saw how much sugar and how little there was, it seemed to me to put more fruits and less sugar.”
Fearne & Rosie Jams contain 40% less sugar and 70% more fruits than standard.
Its original plan was given an early impetus when it listed in 30 agricultural stores within the first month of trade, along with the sale on Instagram, although today it would not do the same today after not gaining profit from the sale of glass jars via Royal Mail.
After early talks with Morrisons in Yorkshire and Waitrose, only in 2024, when the company entered retailers as Co-Oo and Tesco, the business flew using its husband’s production facility to produce the first iterations. Its berry -rich products are now produced in Belgium after a quick scale.
Registered B-Corp Business, Kettlewell says 2% of his revenue goes to charity causes. BBC children in need is a corporate partner while supporting the charity charity Fareshare Fareshare.
“I come from teaching, where people as a whole are quite friendly, open and honest,” Cataluel says. “In the business, I have met people who have not built business the way I would expect them to run.
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“When they mean the commercial and do not see the broader impact of what they do, it is sometimes difficult for me. For me, balancing profit and the goal is the way to do it, even though we are a commercial entity.”
Initially sweet for children, Fearne & Rosie are now perceived as a family brand. Kettlewell also took steps as a founder of a woman with three children to reduce her working hours during school holidays after consulting her board and to take Friday.
Fearne & Rosie is the birth of teacher Rachel Ketluel, who had the idea after being disappointed with the sugar level in jams. ·Heidicbeard
“I worked hard on business and went straight to school,” says Kettlewell. “Changing my work at work, I hope it becomes a better parent and better equipped to manage our business.”
Diagnosed with dyslexia, the teacher, turned into a businesswoman, has also overcome the lack of confidence in the workplace. She admits that she is not the most skilled to manage the business, but says she is best placed when it comes to helping to build her team.
She also sees her business similar to vertical training. “It would be boring if it was always the same,” she smiles. “This lifelong training gift is what helps me grow.”
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The first year of FEARNE & ROSIE trading accumulated about 9,000 British pounds before its first 12 months after launching about 30,000 pounds in Waitrose Netted.
The company, which employs 10 employees in both parts and full -time, is on its third investment round after gathering £ 750,000 and including investors such as Giles Brook, which grows innocent drinks and Vita Coco.
Fearne & Rosie, named after Kettlewell’s daughters, added to her stable of five traffic jams this year with the Mango Reserve designed to please the culinary market in South Asia.
Fearne & Rosie is on a mission to return the jam in the United Kingdom households
With the innovation and the expansion of the six -year -old business Kettlewell, he believes that he has similarities to the teaching and management of business; Namely, the involvement of multitudinal tasks, as well as a campaign to guarantee that retailers can support schools to teach the children of what they have in their food and the impact they have on their bodies.
“The reason I started was to provide a healthier choice for schools and create it around how to help families,” she adds.
“I hope we can build something that can have a positive impact and the idea we can do in the world is what moves me.”
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