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On a mission to become the leading sustainable manufacturer of nutritionally designed heat-to-eat meals

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Funded 3 Mar 2022
£125,019 target
£133,067 from 0 investors
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Business overview

Location Thatcham, United Kingdom
Social media
Website thetransformationchef.co.uk
Sectors Food & Beverage Digital Mixed B2B/B2C
Company number 10764796
Incorporation date 11 May 2017
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) £875.2K
Equity offered 12.50%
Tax relief

EIS

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Business highlights

  • Entire range is gluten and dairy free, with no refined sugar
  • £160k+ revenue to date*
  • Re-order rate of 50% within 30 days and Av. order value of £50+
  • Featured in Men’s Health, Tatler, Runners World and MailOnline
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Key features

  • Secondary Market
  • Nominee investment min. £17.16 +

Idea

Introduction

Our mission is to become the most sustainable manufacturer of nutritionally designed heat-to-eat frozen meals that are restaurant quality and suitable for both coeliacs and those with an intolerance to dairy. Our range consists of over 30 heat-to-eat frozen meals that are all free-from gluten, dairy and refined sugar. Over 40% are plant-based.

We are aiming to raise £125k at pre-money valuation of £875k, to see us on the next stage in our journey.

The opportunity is huge: the UK ready meal and ready to cook market is worth £3.1 billion, with frozen meals at £444 million. In the next 5 years we aiming for 1% of this market. We have assembled a creative and leadership team to rival the best in the business, from backgrounds as senior buyers with household names, food consultants to high street brands and not forgetting top nutritionist Jenna Hope.

Substantial accomplishments to date

Business Timeline

January 2018: The Transformation Chef launched

January 2019: Featured in Runner’s World

Summer 2019: Featured in Men’s Health

September 2019: Moved from fresh to frozen meals & opened for national delivery

January 2021: Rachel joins the business full time

February 2021: Start working with Karen Green

August 2021: Acquire Mitch’s Kitchen range of meals

September 2021: Chris starts working with the business full time & become members of the British Frozen Food Federation

October 2021: Began working with Copy Club, Raising Partners and Joelson

December 2021: Start journey to Bcorp certification

January 2022: Start Partnership with Climate Care

Key Customer Metrics & Performance

Customer Repeat Rate 52.6% in 30 Days, 70% in 90 days and 76.1% in 180 days

Average Order Value of over £50,

Website traffic up by 144% YTD

2500 social media subscribers

2600 email subscribers

Monetisation strategy

Our main focus will continue to be our D2C channel, enhancing the customer journey as we go and driving our newly available subscription model.

Retail options will be also be targeted - farm-shops, health-food outlets and independent retailers in either own-brand freezers or within retailer units. We will also continue to look at the rising market-place that is on-demand retail and we recently pitched to Gorillas.

Free-from food options for food service will also be targeted, with these options left wanting in many food service environments, that are currently over 25% under-staffed.

Export options will also be created - 20% of our website traffic come from abroad, including the USA.

Use of proceeds

We’re looking to raise £125k. With our own production facility already in place, we will divert these funds into four key areas:

Team (£45k) - bolstering the operations and production team to manage increased production and fulfilment demand

Marketing (£40k) - creating and implementing a best in class marketing strategy combined with targeted PR

Campaigns (£15k) - social ads at all levels of the targeted funnel, Google ad words for outreach and working with micro-influencer's to create a social boom

Equipment (£25k) - Increasing frozen storage space and packaging capability to ensure increased volumes can easily be satisfied

Key Information

The company has the following outstanding loans:

1. £40,701 loan from the Founders at with no interest rate. The loan is to begin repayments starting December 2022 and ending December 2024.

2. £29,486 loan from Barclays at an interest rate of 2.5% per annum. The loan being repaid monthly at £532 until December 2026.

The funds raised from this investment round will not be used to repay these loans.

*Based on unaudited management accounts

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