Small Business Spotlight Follow-Up: The Perfect Granola

13 WHAM NEWS - Brett Davidsen / News / Published: September 25, 2019

In February, she convinced the nation's largest retailer, Walmart, to carry her products.

Wednesday’s announcement is in line with Liddle's mission of helping those in need. By partnering with Foodlink, The Perfect Granola is expanding the organization's career training program, providing three new full-time jobs, and creating a new revenue stream for the local food bank.

"The long-term goal is that this grows so much that it needs additional lines and it's a huge volume and across New York State that the number of employees that we hire, or Perfect Granola hires just continues to increase," said Foodlink COO Terra Keller.

A full production line will churn out one-ounce pouches of a new, allergy-free granola from a custom-built clean room facility within Foodlink. The Perfect Granola is now the first grown and certified ready-to-eat grain producer in New York State.

Liddle says if successful, they hope to duplicate this pilot program in other Feeding America food banks.

"Nothing is ever done alone, so if we're able to build this company for the community and the community is supporting us, it just builds a really strong sustainable company," Liddle said.

The Perfect Granola has been a partner with Foodlink on the donation side since its beginning, donating more than 3,000 pounds of product to the food bank.

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