Q: Did you experiment with any products
for yourself?
Andrew: “Yes. I suffer with insomnia and my
first experience of using a CBD product myself
was to see if it could help with this. Having
read about its anxiolytic properties, I thought I
would try. Actually, I still successfully use CBD
for this purpose to this day, and a shameless
plug but I now specifically use our CBD
infused apple, turmeric and ginger herbal tea
(non-caffeine) an hour or so before bed.”
Q: What was the reaction from your friends
and family when you mentioned starting a
CBD company to them?
Andrew: “Thankfully it wasn’t too much of
a shock. As a family we have always been
interested in alternative natural therapy and
medicine which most close to us know about.
It does still surprise me though, out with our
circle, the misconceptions that still exist in
terms of lack of understanding on what CBD is
and the stigma attached to it. I think that the
cogs are slowly turning in terms of being more
widely accepted as a good option for many
people.”
Q: What has the response to your products
been like?
Martin: “Absolutely brilliant. We saw that
there was opportunity for different kinds of
CBD products, the oil was not for everybody,
so we wanted to sort of cater for that and
specialise in that and we’ve been really
well-received. It took us a long time to get
right in terms of getting the lab results to be
consistent, but yeah we think we’ve got a
really great product.”
Q: With products like herbal tea, coffee
beans and chocolates, where do you fit in?
Martin: “Coffee shops. It’s definitely our
biggest market is the coffee shops. We’re the
only supplier that do bagged tea and coffee
as well, so we do our teas and coffees for the
coffee market specifically. And that’s going
really well, it’s definitely our biggest growing
market.”
Q: There are so many CBD brands popping
up these days, it can be hard to keep up...
Martin: “We definitely want to be one of the
top five brands in the UK by the end of 2019
that’s what we’re pushing for, whether that’s
achievable or not, but that’s what we’re in
for and to get a really good presence in the
wholesale market as well.”
Andrew: “Living in the CBD bubble it is easy
to forget that most people don’t actually
know exactly what CBD is, never mind how
to distinguish a quality CBD product. All CBD
products are not created equal. We are also
just about to launch our new raw extract and
broad spectrum THC-free range of oils, so we
will be one of the few companies with a high
CBD:CBDA oil, full spectrum purified and a
purified broad spectrum THC-free, for people
who do not want even trace amounts of THC
including those worried about failing work
drugs tests.”
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