Bionaturae

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2021 by Carla Bartolucci · said 26 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2021
Bartolucci took a $65,000 mortgage on parents' house for startup capital
“And we took 65,000 dollar mortgage on my parents' house.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 25:40 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Disclosure
Bartolucci: Reinvested all profits annually instead of taking money out
“You're just gonna have to keep reinvesting your profits every year, and that's what I did.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 40:02 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bartolucci: Brother loaned her $85,000 to launch Bionaturae
“My brother loaned me 85,000 dollars.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 25:32 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
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Bionaturae reached about $15 million in annual sales around 2008
“I mean, we were about maybe fifteen million in sales and things were ok.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 39:34 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Jovial Foods reached profitability after three years of tight operations
“I think we were profitable after the third year. Not immensely profitable, and I think we had two years where we lost money, but we've run a tight ship.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 1:06:25 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 positive
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Bypassing middlemen to source directly from Italian factories spiked profits
“So we went there and found new factories and suddenly realized that the pricing that we had was very unfair, and so when we went direct, we made a lot more money.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 41:12 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 neutral
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Bionaturae hit $500,000 in first-year sales near break-even
“I think we managed to sell about 500,000 dollars the first year. And at the end of the year, I was really behind in the QuickBooks and putting things into the computers, but it was the end of the year, so I had put all the bills and all the expenses, and I ran…”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 29:53 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bartolucci: First Bionaturae order was a $20,000 20-foot container
“Our first order, I believe it was about 20,000 dollars. It was a 20 foot container.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 24:45 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
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