How To Grow A Food Business with Relish Marketing

How To Grow A Food Business with Relish Marketing

Relish Marketing’s Jo Densley discusses what it takes to grow a food business with food founders and entrepreneurs. Listen for insights, experiences & ideas.

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September 8, 2026 26 mins

Cooking sauces have a reputation problem. For years the fixture's been written off as the bland, play-it-safe aisle that skimps on real flavour. Shoppers walk past on their way to a ready meal, because a jar just doesn't feel like it can deliver a proper katsu, a proper puttanesca, or a proper anything. So how do you change expectations and stand out?

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Helen Johnston spent decades leading British magazine publishing before a health diagnosis transformed her career. Learn how autoimmune illness, nutrition retraining, and two years of R&D led to SUCSEED - a functional food business built on organic, regenerative sourcing and real nutritional science. Discover what food founders can learn from her precision appro...

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What if food, rather than supplements, was the first place to go when your energy is low, your body is struggling, and your immune system needs support? That's the founding philosophy of Oshomo's Mimi and Camilla, two friends who've created an amazing food business and scaled through farmers' markets.

Their food-as-medicine approach grew from cooking for Tibetan lamas and Ayurvedic doctors. After lockdown cancelled their restaurant...

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What does it really take to bring a genuinely new food category to market? Alex Epstein is the founder of Messy Face, a delicious, clean-label spread made from grape molasses and sesame tahini. His route to founding it took in business school, two software exits, a stint on The Apprentice with Lord Sugar, a failed hair care company, a decade build...

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Anna Gorman never set out to start a food manufacturing business. After 20 years in hospitality, she opened a vegan café - two weeks before the first lockdown. However, it would lead her to create a product that Vegans simply love and many thought was impossible to get right.

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October 23, 2025 29 mins

What happens when a doctor, an engineer, a financial controller and a farmer start a drinks business? How do you start a vodka brand when you don't know how to make it? How did their creamy, smooth potato-based vodka win a raft of awards before they'd even sold a single bottle?

In this episode, Jo Densley dives into the journey of Nine Tines, the premium spirit that's putting Yorkshire on the vodka map. Founders Gwen Bromley and Ri...

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July 6, 2025 32 mins

The Marshmallowist was the UK’s first producer of gourmet marshmallows. Marrying innovation and indulgence, they’re like nothing you’ve ever tasted. Led by sisters Oonagh and Jenny Simms, their first stockist was Harvey Nichols, and they were soon featured in Vogue. They’ve joined The Hairy Bikers on TV, published a book, and this year were stocked nationwide as part of Marks &am...

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