Santander Breakthrough Webinar - Strategies for scalable growth

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Santander, together with Smarta is hosting a series of webinars and face to face events with the main aim of helping ambitious businesses learn from some great organisations and speakers who have gained useful first-hand experience of developing their business to the next level. Founded in 2008, Naked Wines sold 13 million bottles last year (7% on 2013), with sales of £47m. Despite now supporting 145 winemakers in 13 different countries, demand to join its angel wine club has outstripped supply and there's now a waiting list to join its 250,000-strong army. Eamon joins us to share how Naked Wines has achieved and managed such rapid growth and his plans for future international expansion. Don't miss this one-off opportunity to hear the Naked Wines story and ask Eamon your questions. Eamon will be discussing: - How Naked Wines built an audience with such a thirst for its services - Prepared for and coped with such rapid growth - The technology behind its platform - Its growth plan to take Naked Wines global Panel: Eamon Fitzgerald Eamon Fitzgerald joined Naked Wines, the UK’s fastest-growing wine company, in 2012 as ‘the Naked Wine Guy’, hired to find up-and-coming winemakers. Naked Wines finds small independent winemakers for its customers to fund directly, and FitzGerald said that his vision is to make the company ‘the most exciting wine shop on the planet’. Matt Thomas, Smarta COO at Smarta, he oversees all business activity and strategy alongside founder Shaa Wasmund. A business journo by trade, Matt was part of the founding team at Smarta having previously edited Startups.co.uk and a number of B2B trade titles. He’s a mentor, coach and small business obsessive and stopped counting the number of entrepreneurs he¹d interviewed when he got to 1,000. Matt has authored two books: 'Starting Your Own Shops' and 'The Smarta Way To Do Business. In 2011, he was named in the Courvoisier Future 500, CEO collection of the most talented, inspirational and forward thinking people in the UK.