Cecily's Story - An Entrepreneur

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Cecily's Ice Cream
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Plant based ice cream
In David Attenborough's recent film on #netflix he said that it was simply unsustainable for the planet to continue supporting billions of large meat eaters - "there simply isn't the space - if we all had largely plant based diet we would need only half the land we use at the moment"⁠ ⁠Veganism and a plant based lifestyle used to be seen as a fringe movement - now it really is pretty mainstream.
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Cecily Mills - Women's Entrepreneurship Day 2020
Cecily Mills, founder of Coconuts Organic, dairy free ice cream talks about funding and female founders only receiving 1% of venture capital funding.
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Cecily Mills - Women's Entrepreneurship Day 2020
Cecily Mills, founder and CEO of Coconuts Organic talks about the challenges facing women entrepreneurs.
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Cecily Mills - Women's Entrepreneurship Day 2020
On Women's Entrepreneurship Day 19th November 2020, Cecily Mills, CEO and founder of Coconuts Organic - dairy free ice cream talks, starting your own business.
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Coconuts Organic
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Cecily in the early days. When Coconuts Organic was just starting up and people were unsure about vegan ice cream. Now five years later were in the mainstrean and Coconuts Organic dairy free ice cream is sold in Tesco
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Cecily moved back to her family home in Cornwall to create Cocnuts Organics - delicious dairy free ice cream. Five years later she's still here - can't think why!
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Dragon's Den entrepreneur talks Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding for Coconuts Organic
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Dragon's Den Ice Cream Entrepreneur - Cecily Mills
Cecily Mills launched Coconuts Organic in 2015 after realising that the non-dairy ice cream options available either didn’t taste very good or contained all sorts of artificial or processed ingredients that she just didn’t like this idea of. It’s her mission to create the most luxurious, creamy, rich and delicious non-dairy ice cream, with a taste and texture to rival the best dairy ice cream, using only high-quality natural ingredients... read more #entrepreneur #femalefounder #motivation
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I left M&S in 2012. I did plenty of shelf stacking in my time there - particularly at Christmas (seriously hats off to all of you who work in retail), Fast forward to 2015 when I decided to start @coconutsorganic , leaving Brighton and moving back to my childhood home of Cornwall. 5 years and these two babies later, Coconuts Organic is now in the freezers @marksandspencer stores, which also means for the first time we’re in @marksandspencerjersey, Dublin and Belfast. Its a great feeling.