Celena Gill: Frère Branchiaux initially sold candles from a minivan trunk
Celena Gill · Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill · May 13, 2021 · at 13:44
Celena Gill, co-founder of home fragrance company Frère Brancheau, describes how her young sons began making their first retail sales in 2017.
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“Baseball and football games. We literally have the candles in the back of my minivan. They went out, they let people smell and sniff them, and they brought people back to the minivan and they bought candles.”
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