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Fruitful Day launched in 2015 with a mission to make a healthy lifestyle easier and more accessible to all by delivering curated fresh fruit boxes to homes and offices. Today, with a brand new facility and new product lines, Fruitful Day has now become a household name across the UAE. They’ve been mentioned in numerous articles, featured in the best local foodie blogs, and have successfully attracted a loyal Emirati following, where word of mouth referrals spread like wildfire. You can read some of the news articles here and here
About Fruitful Day
Category: Retail | Location: UAE | Web: fruitfulday.com
UAE-based Fruitful Day launched with a mission to make a healthy lifestyle easier and more accessible to all by delivering curated fresh fruit boxes to homes and offices.
They focused on building a recognisable brand that exudes positive energy and happiness and is trusted for its commitment to quality and convenience. But fruit boxes were just the beginning…
One key thing they’ve found is that people love to give tasty fruit to others, which is how their growing gifting range was born. Their #watermeloncake started trending on social media, and they now have a gifting range that is on course to add over AED 1M of revenue this year alone.
Building on that success, Fruitful Day has also expanded into healthy event catering and have a growing list of new product lines they envision for the future. They’ve also expanded they reach and are now servicing clients in four emirates. Fruitful Day’s creative marketing has earned them (organically!) 30K Instagram followers, with new followers joining daily and their DMs constantly buzzing.
In their own words:
“We are passionate about creating a business focused on sustainability and to ensure that we have some fun along the way. We thought a lot about the details of the business and how we can make a difference through our choices. We use recycled materials for our packaging. Our fruit is sourced in the region, with the exception of limited fruit where we feel you’ll get a better tasting product from importing from further abroad,” explains Marie-Christine Luijckx, Managing Partner, Fruitful Day.”
Plans for Growth
With a CAGR in excess of 50% since 2015, the Fruitful Day team is literally bursting out of their original 1300 sq ft warehouse facility in Dubai. Over the last four years, they’ve built a vertically integrated business that carries out the end-to-end process of sourcing delicious fruit; maintaining cold storage in our their facility; washing, preparing (cutting, processing, etc.) and packaging the fruit; and delivering in their own refrigerated vans. They’ve grown to a team of 20, and their staffing needs are only increasing.
Fruitful Day is at an inflection point in the business, and they are eager to capitalise on the momentum they’ve achieved to date. They’re in the process of moving to a new warehouse facility that is almost 5x larger than their current space.
This expansion will enable them to continue to grow their core home and office subscription verticals, aggressively grow and add more products to their gifting range and broaden their catering services. They also have an eye on exciting new and scalable product development like popsicles, smoothies, and other FMCG items that have potential scalability outside of the UAE.
Key Achievements
- 4 Years, 4 Verticals, Over 4,000 Clients
- A CAGR in excess of 50% since 2015
- New product ranges: Gifting range, catering service
- Management team has worked together for 10+ years
- Grown Fruitful Day to a team of 20 in the UAE. Virtual team of 2 web developers with experience at top-tier German Start-Up. Digital marketing team in UK, South Africa, and UAE each with different digital marketing specialization and expertise, which can easily be scaled
Why a bigger facility?
The bigger facility will allow Fruitful Day to grow in 3 key areas:
- Improve productivity through an optimised facility based on 4 years of learning’s
- Revenue growth in 4 existing verticals
- Add new business lines including popsicles, smoothies, and other FMCG items
“With more available space, we’ll be able to do what we do best…optimize, grow, and innovate,” says Luijckx. “This opportunity for us provides an opportunity for you. We are inviting you to join us on this fruitful journey as a valued investor and brand ambassador. If you’re peachy keen to pear up with us, we’d be berry happy!”
I like the sound of this! How do I get my shares?
If you’re interested in becoming an Fruitful Day shareholder, you can view the proposal, request further documentation, get in touch with the founders and of course, secure your shares here: Fruitful Day Crowdfunding Round
