Get your consumer product onto 30,000 retail store shelves...

“As you walk down the isle of a mass retail store and look at the thousands of products on the shelves you can rest assured that every one of those products started with a vision” -excerpt from The Caboodles Blueprint

When I first decided to take my ideal to retail. I had no idea where to start or what to do.

30 years later and many products, brands and companies later… I discovered that I had found a “blueprint” – a simple step by step formula for taking a product idea to retail.

Here are some basic steps –

This is one of TV Chef, Gary Rhodes recipes. They’re usually cooked with beef and baked in a Malaysian pastry parcel but he’s adapted them to suit vegetarians and to utilise more readily available puff pastry. They’re designed as a starter but I think they would be perfect for an alfresco dinner party with salad.

Yes, Walmart, the company so many love to hate has discovered that sustainability benefits its bottom line. Walmart's greening influence is huge and growing. It is also helping its suppliers save energy and reduce waste.