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We met up twice this week to update our pitch; making it more succinct and adding in new information such as our slightly pivoted and more thought out business plan.  Massey Palmerston North Food Tech Facilities Massey Palmerston North food technology centre has a specific facility for developing pet food with all sorts of machinery including a dehydrator. They specialise in doing pilot runs of peoples ideas. This could be an option for our new business plan where we are proposing making contracted pilot runs of our food in set-up facilities before we start our own manufacturing plant. The food pilots equipment list:  http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/college-of-health/mifst/equipment%20list.pdf?A526BF1FE00FBC1B95E97E33523A96CB Addiction Pet Foods Pilot Programme This sounds absolutely perfect for our needs as a company. Perhaps working with Addiction Pet Foods could be Phase 1/2 of our new business plan? http://www.petfoodnz.co.nz/companies...

Today we pitched our new idea to Lyn. He told us to change the tone of our pitch as it was more marketing it to the customer than to the dragons. Likewise, he told us to spend more time on our business plan - primarily it's development phases. He also told us to look at partnering with Massey Uni at Palmerston North to develop our food. They have a million dollar dehydrator. We also spoke to Olly and he brought up the idea of paying somebody else to manufacture our product which would reduce setup costs. Our phase 3 goal could be to own our own factory (i.e. by 2020).

In the reduce, reuse, recycle, recovery, and landfill model we are sitting mostly in the reducing sector. This is a valuable advantage in our business model.

From: info@nelsonorganiccoop.nz Thanks for your email. The idea is interesting and fits in with our preference to provide groceries in bulk to customers for self-service. We encourage customers to bring their own containers but do also provide paper bags. We however do not stock pet foods. One reason for this is that there are potential issues of contamination between pet foods and foods for human consumption where such products are sold in the same shop space, particularly in self-service situations. While our Food Control Plan could no doubt be amended to accommodate this, there would be considerable expense in doing so. We therefore do not plan to sell bulk pet food in our store for self-service at this time, however we would consider supplying customers to order with pre-packaged bulk supplies. Regards The Team at NOC ---------- Note: if we could ensure the pet food was to the standard of human food this could still work. ---------- From: teva@commonsenseorganics....

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Dehydrator Machine We would need to buy a dehydrator to make our food, the size and cost of which would depend on our scale. There are quite a few smaller options that would be ideal for the initial stages of our business. These range from $1000 to $30,000 NZD from what is available publically. For a much larger scale we can estimate it would cost over $100,000 to purchase the machinery. SMALLER SCALE: 10 Tray Dual Zone Excalibur RES10 NZ $1110.55 Drying Capacity: 2.83464m² Rated one of the best dehydrators in the world, this would be good for an initial small scale trial to further validate our idea. http://www.excaliburdehydrator.co.nz/index.html NEW TYPE industrial meat dehydrator/professional food dehydrator CE US $1,800-2,500 / Unit (two models) Drying Capacity: 2.28m² https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/NEW-TYPE-industrial-meat-dehydrator-professional_60417463789.html Excalibur 1 Zone Commercial $11,500.00 Drying Capacity: 4.645152m...