{"id":9163,"date":"2023-01-31T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:47:51","slug":"mfre-speaker-connie-marples-boosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9163","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker: Connie Marples, Boosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us this Friday, Feb 03, 2023, as\u00a0Connie Marples<\/a>, Founder & President of Boosh speaks to the\u00a0#MFRE<\/a>\u00a0Students about\u00a0Brands\u2019<\/a>\u00a0journey, from its beginnings as a start-up to its current stage of growth and capital raising. The seminar will also cover the trends and future prospects of the plant-based industry as well as strategies and insights for other companies looking to start or grow a plant-based brand<\/p>\n

Boosh Plant-based Brand: From Start-Up to growth& Capital Raise Stage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: Friday, Feb 03, 2023<\/p>\n

Time<\/strong>: 3:00-4:30 pm<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: MCML 160<\/p>\n

Connie Marples\u00a0<\/strong>has been receiving food-oriented awards for over 20 years and continues to win awards with Boosh, where she\u2019s driving plant-food innovation and setting a standard of high-quality and healthy frozen meals. Her foray into the food industry was not by chance, as she has always enjoyed sharing new recipes and healthier alternatives with family and friends for years. She would often deliver frozen or hot meals within her close circle who encouraged her to expand her great flavours to a broader audience.\u00a0 This led her to create small batches in her tiny kitchen and distributed weekly to local customers all over Greater Vancouver. The experience was invaluable as the locals, inspired by her desire to provide healthier meat alternatives, offered valuable feedback, which helped in the growth and expansion phase of Boosh. What started as making dishes for friends in a tiny kitchen in Vancouver has grown to a publicly traded company with Boosh Food in grocery stores all over Canada. America is next.<\/p>\n

Connie Marples is the founder and president of Boosh Plant Based Brands Inc and in June 2022 was named interim CEO.<\/p>\n

Boosh Plant-Based Brands Inc<\/strong>. operates as a plant-based ready-to-eat food company. The Company offers plant-based, heat and eats family-oriented entrees and meals. Boosh Plant-Based Brands distributes its food products through retail outlets and independent grocery stores throughout Canada<\/p>\n

For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Olivier<\/p>\n

Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE<\/strong>
\nAcademic Program Manager
\nMaster of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food System
\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
\nMacmillan Building \u2013 348A- 2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada
\nPhone: 6047718961| olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca|<\/a> http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us this Friday, Feb 03, 2023, as\u00a0Connie Marples, Founder & President of Boosh speaks to the\u00a0#MFRE\u00a0Students about\u00a0Brands\u2019\u00a0journey, from its beginnings as a start-up to its current stage of growth and capital raising. The seminar will also cover the trends and future prospects of the plant-based industry as well as strategies and insights for other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}