Please welcome Shirley White who whilst working in banking and finance for many years had a chance conversation with a boss at the time who mentioned he thought she had the skills and drive to run her own business got her thinking about what sort of business that could be.
Shirley is now the owner of OTC Beverages, which produces premium non-alcoholic beverages based on traditional Carribean flavours. Flavours include sorrel, lime juice with butterfly pea flower and of course Ginger beer.
The drinks are available both online on OTC’s website otcbeverages.com and social media sites and also in over 30 independent retail outlets across London.
OTC Beverages has received lots of industry recognition and awards and the includes the highest possible grading by the Great British Food Award judges.
But how do you go about building a drinks business in such a competitive market place from production through to building a brand, let’s find out from Shirley and her OTC journey so far.
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