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☆ Two friends turned their side hustle into a full-time snack business—it could bring in $500 million in 2024
  + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Morgan Smith Raffi Paul | Morgan Smith | Raffi Paul | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +10 min
One of their friends in Missouri had mailed them meat sticks made by Kevin Western, a Greentop local who made the snacks for fun and sold them around town. In December 2012, Maldonado and Ali started selling Chomps' first product — the original beef jerky stick — on its website. Trader Joe's placed an initial order for a million meat sticks to stock in over 400 stores. Chomps started selling meat sticks in Trader Joe's, its first national retailer, in July 2016. Building a jerky empireOnce Chomps started selling its sticks in Trader Joe's, other stores quickly followed, including Whole Foods, Target and Walmart.
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☆ Chomps: How we turned $6,500 into a business bringing in close to $250 million
  + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Raffi Paul | Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailChomps: How we turned $6,500 into a business bringing in close to $250 millionLooking to make a healthier-for-you meat snack, friends Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali together put forth $6,500 to launch their "side hustle" back in 2012. After four years, Trader Joe's began selling their products and sales significantly grew. In 2023, Pete and Rashid's once side-hustle has brought in nearly $250 million in retail sales.
Persons: Pete Maldonado, Rashid Ali, Joe's, Pete, Rashid's
☆ Amazon gave 'small business' and 'Black-owned business' badges to companies that were neither, report says
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Amazon reportedly gave some sellers "Small Business" badges even though they were large companies, The Information reports. "Black-Owned Small Business" badges were also reportedly given to companies that aren't Black-owned. Amazon gave "Small Business" badges to sellers that are "multinational corporations with thousands of employees," The Information reported. Likewise, Amazon reportedly also gave "Black-Owned Small Business" badges to companies that were not actually Black-owned, The Information reported. And products from grass-fed beef jerky firm Chomps were given the Black-owned business badge even though its founders Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali are not Black.
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