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Founders:<\/strong> Christian Hartmann, Martin McLaughlin and Poppaloppadingdong (previously known as Tom Callard)
\nFounded:<\/strong> August 2010
\nWebsite: <\/strong>www.lovedawebsite.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Few will forget Love Da Pop’s colourful turn on Dragons’ Den<\/em>. Presenting their candy-striped paper bags of home-baked, flavoured popcorn, the creative co-founders’ business plan may have been lacking but their innovation was evident – prompting Peter Jones to invest £70,000.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward 11 months and the updated Love Da Pop range is about to launch in Waitrose; one third of the team has left their jobs at Saatchi & Saatchi and they are also looking to grow the events wing of the business (selling corn at pop-up cinemas and similar). With Branson-esque ambitions to extend the brand onto other projects (think Love Da Milkshake, Love Da Airline), no doubt this won’t be the last we see of these energetic entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founders: Christian Hartmann, Martin McLaughlin and Poppaloppadingdong (previously known as Tom Callard) Founded: August 2010 Website: www.lovedawebsite.com Few will forget Love Da Pop’s colourful turn on Dragons’ Den. Presenting their candy-striped paper bags of home-baked, flavoured popcorn, the creative co-founders’ business plan may have been lacking but their innovation was evident – prompting Peter Jones to invest £70,000. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-157"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n90. 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