August 2012
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Our first article in the press!
We were so excited to get our first article in the press on the same day that Richard Branson tweeted about us to his 2.3 MILLION followers on twitter! Check out the article on Harpers website:
http://www.harpers.co.uk/news/news-headlines/12566-fledgling-wine-brand-pranks-innocent-drinks.html
After a very early start and a stressful morning we managed to pull of a stunt and hijack the Innocent...
Skinny Vines mascot - The Grape Stalker
Skinny Vines new mascot - THE GRAPE STALKER!
Profile:
Height: Medium
Weight: Full bodied
Role: To spread the word about an amazing new wine, with 25%fewer calories, set to hit the UK shores
Life ambition: To hold a Guinness World Record - possibly as the first bunch of grapes to run a marathon
Interests: Abseiling down tall buildings, gatecrashing major events, hijacking prominent business signs...
July 2012
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Finally the team meet...
Finally the time came when all four Skinny directors were in the same room at the same time. With Tanya and Steve both in London it has been brilliant to be able to work in the same room and not via a computer link up. There were some nerves and a niggling thought at the back of my mind that what if after two years of working on the business via skype, we don’t all get along when we meet in...
June 2012
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London International Wine Fair 2012
Logan and I attended the London International Wine Fairat the Excel Centre in London a few weeks ago for a Dragons Den style pitch to the wine buyers of Tesco. It is fair to say that it was the biggest day in our business careers to date! However all the planning in the world could not prepare us for the fact that Logan was sick as a dog on the day of the pitch and in the few days leading up to...
May 2012
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Be Your Own Boss
You may have realised from our excited facebook posts and tweets that we have made it to round one of BBC3’s Be Your Own Boss. We are currently scheming for the £100 challenge. The basic gist is they give us £100 and we have to make as much money as possible in two weeks to prove our entrepreneurial skills. Then pitch our Skinny Vines business idea at an expo in June to RIchard Reed...
April 2012
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Weekend in Paris
So I have managed to figure out how to get the pretty little facebook and twitter buttons on the blog, with a little help from Logan (by a little help I mean I handed my computer to him and he did it). So feel free to ‘like’ and ‘share’ away – I’m pretty excited about this feature in case you can’t tell.
There are six sleeps and counting until SV’s Tan Tan lands back in Londontown all the way from...
March 2012
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Skinny Vines on BBC Three???
We are excitedly in the process of applying for a new BBC Three TV show called Be You Own Boss. Richard Reed, one of the founders behind Innocent Drinks, has £1m to invest in young entrepreneurs. If we get to the first stage he will give us £100 which we then have to invest and show our business skills to make money.
https://couldyoubeyourownboss.apply.twofour.co.uk/
Logan and I have been...
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Skinny Vines development comes to a grinding halt!
Last night chaos broke out in the midst of a Skinny Vines (skype) business meeting!
It was the first time the four of us have managed to touch base in some time due to our international work schedules, so there was quite a bit to discuss. Mid sentence there was a god awful squeal come from the mad hatter (Steve) which led the rest of us to believe he must be in a life or death situation. Low and...
February 2012
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January 2012
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““Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” —- Sir Robert...”
Back in London with 12 bottles of Skinny Vines...
Loges and I are back in London with 12 bottles of SV samples! They all survived the journey wrapped up in our clothes (clean of course) tucked away in our bags. It was a mission getting through Singapore and trying to pack our bags strategically not to go too far over the weight limit, but it was worth it. I even managed to keep all my new shoes purchases! Now the bottles of our delicious low cal,...
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New Zealand trip
So Christmas and New Year’s has been a fun filled time with family and friends in Australia and NZ, indulging in way too much delicious food and wine. Loges has registered for the Paris marathon and is meant to be in full swing of his training program but it’s fair to say he hasn’t spent much time with his trainers on this trip. I’m loving exploring the sights and sounds of...
December 2011
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Label Design
After completing some market research we finally decided on our label design which is exciting. However, our excitement was short lived as we have just had feedback from the printers that our design is not feasible as it’s too intricate ;( We are currently not ready to take no for an answer though and are seeing what we can do to make this label work.
In the mean time we have officially...
October 2011
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Skinny Vines Update...
We are still plugging away on the side of our day jobs. We have narrowed our label designs down from four concepts to two concepts. It’s nice that the four of us had similar ideas and Tan, Loges and I are skyping the designer tonight to make some minor changes. Then we can send out the labels to our friends to see what they think… hopefully they will love them as much as we do!
In...
September 2011
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Brand development
It’s been a good week for Skinny Vines. We received the first look at the wine label concepts from the graphic designer and they are looking great! Four options to choose from and so far we are all on the same page and have narrowed them down to the two front runners. Skyping Steve tonight to get his thoughts. Hopefully he’s on the same page but knowing Steve he is likely to throw a...
