A WOMAN has revealed how she went from starting a side hustle in her kitchen at age 21, to owning a £280 million business. Tara Bosch has always had a sweet tooth but realised when she got older the negative impacts that eating sweets has on your health. 3 Tara started her side hustle from her kitchen table Credit: YouTube 3 She was determined to create a healthy version of sweets Credit: YouTube 3 Her business is now worth £280 million Credit: YouTube Determined to find a way to satisfy her desire for sweet treats whilst still staying healthy, Tara, dropped out of university at 21 and began researching how to make healthy sweets.
She got a gummy bear mould from Amazon and bought some ingredients from her local supermarket, and began testing out low sugar sweet recipes from her kitchen table. It took her four months to create her first recipe and she had to take out a loan of around £80,000 to allow her to make the first batch. Speaking to Shelby Church on her YouTube channel, Tara said: "I knew if the business didn't work that at that point I would have $105,000 debt to my name".
She said that in the beginning, it was really hard for her to get supermarkets to stock her product, which she named SmartSweets. Determined to not give up on her dream, she visited one supermarket 50 times, before they agreed to take on the product. After her first year, the Vancouver based entrepreneur managed to get her sweets into 1300 shops, and hired 10 employees.
Her business began to grow.
