Leader Weekends: How to be a CEO (Lily's Kitchen)

<p>Taken from our How to be a CEO podcast.</p><p>Lily’s Kitchen went from a small operation to feed just one dog, to a hugely successful enterprise, so popular it was bought by Nestle Purina.</p><p>The company is run by CEO Nick Magalini who has over twenty years in the pet food industry.</p><p>Nick tells us about how they&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;a 'cooked in the kitchen' small business culture, while growing into an international brand, and what it means to be the first UK pet food company with B Corp status.</p><p>They have gone from strength to strength, most recently seeing sales in UK grocery growing by more than 27% during the pandemic pet-boom.</p><p><em>Henrietta Morrison is the founder of Lily's, who started the business for her pet dog Lily. The idea was to produce food filled with honest, natural ingredients - unlike many products she found in the shops.</em></p><br><p><a href="https://podfollow.com/how-to-be-a-ceo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You can listen to the full episode here.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>