The Cornflakes in the Conveyor Belt

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Soy, that's ral a petemkin village. So your basically put another brand's cornflakes on the conveyor belt to make it look like your factory was working. You've just paid six million dollars for equipment that doesn't work. Over the next few months, we struggled like anything to try to get this equipment to work. We started producing it in august of 19 90. E thousand lod pounds, track loads for pounds of product as hog feed. And finally, ittook over three months to produce the flakes.

Starting a business with your spouse can either bring you closer together or tear you apart. For Arran and Ratana Stephens, their business has lasted for nearly 40 years, and their marriage has thrived for much longer. As business partners, they seem perfectly matched: he’s the hard-charging visionary, she’s the practical, business-minded one who sometimes has to talk him out of a bad decision. But in 1985, Arran made a very smart move: seeing how organic food was starting to take off, he mixed up his first batch of Manna bread in a bathtub and started selling it, eventually expanding to national distribution. From there, he and Ratana pivoted to breakfast cereal, initially purchasing a factory that couldn’t make a single cornflake. Today, Nature’s Path sells organic cereals, tortilla chips and other snacks in more than 50 countries around the world.

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