5 Weird Business Ideas That Made Millions
By siliconindia
Selling Jam out Of His Grandmother's Recipe
The Scottish entrepreneur from Edinburgh and the CEO of SuperJam, Fraser Doherty became a millionaire in a more traditional way by making jams at the age of 14 from his grandmother’s recipes in his parents’ kitchen. Originally his customer base was from his church, but business picked up quickly and by the age of 16, he left school to work on his jam business SuperJam full-time. Waitrose, a high-end supermarket in the U.K., approached him in 2007 to sell his SuperJam products in their stores. SuperJam sells around 500,000 jars a year and currently has around 10 percent of the U.K. jam market.