{"id":148,"date":"2011-02-22T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/?p=148"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:23:41","slug":"hayley-gait-golding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hayley Gait-Golding, 30<\/strong><br> <strong>Company:<\/strong> BEAR<br> <strong>Web: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearnibbles.co.uk\">www.bearnibbles.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a personal trainer, BEAR founder Hayley Gait-Golding was frequently confronted by people struggling to find healthy but tasty treats. From this BEAR was born, with the added benefits of being reasonably priced and with attractive, fun branding. Launched in 2009, BEAR turned over a respectable &pound;2.2m in its first year. Gait-Golding&rsquo;s goal is to become the nation&rsquo;s favourite snack and the bags of fruit or grain are proving popular with health-conscious office workers. Stockists include Waitrose, ASDA, Harrods and the Co-op and final talks with Tesco, Sainsbury&rsquo;s and Somerfield are underway. The company has also launched fruit snacks for children&rsquo;s lunchboxes and is now looking at diversifying into areas such as breakfast cereal.<\/p>\n<p><b>2013 update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>BEAR snacks continues to take the health food market by storm, with revenues of &pound;6.7m in the 2012 financial year with this expected to rise to &pound;10.5m in the year ending October 2013. Its BEAR Nibbles fruit snacks are now being sold by the likes of Subway and Caffe Nero as well as most major supermarket chains in the UK and the company recently started exporting to European markets including Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Gait-Golding, 30 Company: BEAR Web: www.bearnibbles.co.uk As a personal trainer, BEAR founder Hayley Gait-Golding was frequently confronted by people struggling to find healthy but tasty treats. From this BEAR was born, with the added benefits of being reasonably priced and with attractive, fun branding. Launched in 2009, BEAR turned over a respectable &pound;2.2m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-of-2010"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hayley Gait-Golding, 30 Company: BEAR Web: www.bearnibbles.co.uk As a personal trainer, BEAR founder Hayley Gait-Golding was frequently confronted by people struggling to find healthy but tasty treats. From this BEAR was born, with the added benefits of being reasonably priced and with attractive, fun branding. Launched in 2009, BEAR turned over a respectable &pound;2.2m in [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/images.staging.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"254\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"180\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Startups Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Startups Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Startups Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\"},\"headline\":\"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Class of 2010\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2011\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\",\"name\":\"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg\",\"width\":254,\"height\":180,\"caption\":\"BEAR: Hayley Gait-Golding\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Alumni\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/alumni\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Class of 2010\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/alumni\/class-of-2010\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":5,\"name\":\"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/\",\"name\":\"Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\",\"description\":\"The UK&#039;s No.1 starting a business resource\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60\",\"name\":\"The Startups Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Startups Team\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/author\/thestartupsteam\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","og_description":"Hayley Gait-Golding, 30 Company: BEAR Web: www.bearnibbles.co.uk As a personal trainer, BEAR founder Hayley Gait-Golding was frequently confronted by people struggling to find healthy but tasty treats. From this BEAR was born, with the added benefits of being reasonably priced and with attractive, fun branding. Launched in 2009, BEAR turned over a respectable &pound;2.2m in [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/","og_site_name":"Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","article_published_time":"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":254,"height":180,"url":"https:\/\/images.staging.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Startups Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Startups Team","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/"},"author":{"name":"The Startups Team","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60"},"headline":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR","datePublished":"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/"},"wordCount":203,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg","articleSection":["Class of 2010"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2011","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/","name":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg","datePublished":"2011-02-22T10:56:28+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-18T16:23:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/images-startupsv3.ecs.stg7.eu-west-1.mvfglobal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/1342982231_slide.jpg","width":254,"height":180,"caption":"BEAR: Hayley Gait-Golding"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/hayley-gait-golding\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Alumni","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/alumni\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Class of 2010","item":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/alumni\/class-of-2010\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"Hayley Gait-Golding: BEAR"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/","name":"Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business","description":"The UK&#039;s No.1 starting a business resource","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/#\/schema\/person\/b79c62a7ab4db88c1f4e6447ccddaa60","name":"The Startups Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c8cd68a78d325e8bbe4f764947a9052a9f89e15edf1385ad33bf583be4d8962?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Startups Team"},"url":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/author\/thestartupsteam\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}