Nuts.com
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Nuts.com scaled quickly and profitably without ever taking outside investment
“We never took on investors. We grew, we figured out the model. We grew
Very quickly and profitably.”
Nuts.com experienced a 70% worker call-out rate after Easter 2020
“The employees would reflect a lot on the weekends, and then more would be scared to come in, and that Monday, we had 70% worker call out.”
B2B sales eventually reached 20% to 25% of Nuts.com's total revenue
“It was probably 15% of our revenue or so, maybe, maybe, actually at that point, probably more. Maybe 20, 25%.”
Nuts.com holds significant market share supplying ingredients to US microbreweries
“We have significant market share of microbreweries across the U.S.”
Nuts.com B2B yields higher net margins than DTC despite lower gross margins
“What we find with our, call it on the website, but our B to B business, believe it or not, even though the margins, the gross margins are lower, the net margins are higher when you factor in everything. Just a much stickier customer and just handling those ord…”
About 50% of Nuts.com products have direct or indirect tariff exposure
“Like, you know, today when I think about tariffs and our exposure, I would say direct and indirect exposure to tariffs is like, 50% of our products.”
Rachael Ray mistakenly credited Nutsonline as Nuts.com on air in 2011
“We did ship them to Rachel Ray, and at the very end, she says, in the credit, she says, oh, I really want to thank nuts.com. And we were nutsonline.com, so I was like, oh, man.”
The Nuts.com domain owner rejected Jeff Braverman's $200,000 offer in 2005
“I feel like I gave him an offer that I thought was quite generous. I think I offered him something like 200,000 dollars then. Yep. And he just said, no thank you.”
Wholesale dropped to roughly 2% of revenue by the 2012 Nuts.com rebrand
“I know the revenue we did when we switched to nuts.com, and at that point, the wholesale business is like, you know, two percent or something, three percent.”