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Podcast: Taste Radio
Episode: Ep. 210: They Borrowed $10,000 And Built Two Pioneering Brands. How The Founders of Annie Chun's & gimMe Snacks Did It.
Description: Once bitten, the entrepreneurial bug is hard to shake. That was the case for Annie Chun and Steve Broad, who after together building one of the most successful ethnic food brands in America, set their sights on disrupting the snack category. As the co-founders of Annie Chun's, a brand of Asian-inspired noodle bowls, soup bowls, sauces and snacks, Chun and Broad grew sales to $15 million annually before selling the company in 2009 to South Korea-based CJ Foods. Three years later, they saw an opportunity to adapt a traditional Korean snack for an American audience and launched gimMe, a b...