It started with a margarita and a beach bar floating away on the tide… Now, it’s a thriving family firm making quality drinks available anywhere.
Tim and Ria Ball tell us how their lockdown cocktail-making hobby became Bar Buoy, a growing canned cocktail business rooted in the Southwest.
They share what it’s really like to build a company together: the excitement, the cash-flow worries, and the smaller, more domestic negotiations…
Bar Buoy Cocktails have also very kindly given our listeners a code for 15% off before the 31st of December! Listeners can use the code FAMILY15 at www.barbuoy.co.uk.
🔑 Key Themes
- Turning a lockdown hobby into a growing business
- Working together as a couple and defining responsibilities
- Building a cocktail brand around quality and provenance
- Managing the realities of small-business growth and cash flow
- Trust, resilience and staying true to your own direction
🔗 Connect with us
- Bar Buoy Website: https://www.barbuoy.co.uk/
- Bar Buoy IG: https://www.instagram.com/bar_buoy
- Bar Buoy LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bar-buoy-limited/
- Ria Ball: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaball/
- Tim Ball: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timballbarbuoy/
- Liz Lean PR: https://www.lizleanpr.co.uk/
- Liz Lean PR (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/lizleanpr
- Liz Lean PR (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/company/liz-lean-pr/
- Liz Willingham (IG): https://www.instagram.com/lizzielean/
- Liz Willingham (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-willingham-09273a3/
- Leila Willingham (IG): https://www.instagram.com/leilawillingham/
- Leila Willingham (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/leila-willingham-821530a1/
