{"id":504,"date":"2011-03-25T02:35:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/?p=504"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:23:20","slug":"graham-bosher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/graham-bosher\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Bosher: Graze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"body_copy_bold_red\">Graham Bosher, 27<\/span><br>\n<span class=\"body_copy_bold_gold\">Company:<\/span><\/strong> Graze<br>\n<span class=\"body_copy_bold_gold\"><strong>Web:<\/strong><\/span> www.graze.com<\/p>\n<p>Graham Bosher, one of the founders of successful movie rental business Lovefilm, is living proof that adapting an existing business model can prove to be as good as inventing a new one. Rather than sending out movies by post, Graze, which was established by Bosher in 2007, offers a service that delivers healthy snacks. It now sends out 80,000 letterbox-sized boxes of fruits, nuts and dried berries a month, charging &pound;2.99 a go &ndash; less than the delivery charge of most online supermarkets. Turnover this year is an impressive &pound;2.5m, while a recent &pound;2m investment from Octopus Ventures and DFJ Esprit suggests that the company could scale just as well as its older sibling.<\/p>\n<p><b>2013 Update: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>After posting impressive revenues of &pound;10.8m in the year ending March 2012, CEO Graham Bosher marked a successful exit following a management buy-out backed by the Carlyle group in January of this year for an undisclosed sum. 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