We’ve had another good year of growth at Ooooby. The number of UK food hubs have more than doubled from 20 to 42 since this time last year and platform sales in the UK have also doubled from £200k/mth to over £400k/mth.

The outlook for small businesses in today’s economic climate is worrying. Big business seems to have all the advantages; deep pockets to weather the storm, economies of scale, preferred terms with landlords and councils, easier access to funding, grants and subsidies etc. …

Over the last 80 years, the big have been eating the small, but the tide is now turning. Historically, big business gained competitive advantages by leveraging economies of scale which attracted capital and brains. They soon figured out that often the quickest way to market domination was by acquiring smaller competitors to form large centralised conglomerates. You know the story. Giuseppe’s, a family pasta business, builds a reputation…

The A Team Foundation and Be The Earth have joined forces to back the next phase of growth for Ooooby. This investment agreement has been achieved after a long and steady process of establishing the right type of instrument to enable Ooooby to grow as a local and ecological food…

The Food Data Collaboration, a new two-year project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund is officially launching today. The Food Data Collaboration project is building on the work of the Data Food Consortium in France, aiming to create an infrastructure that empowers local producers to list and sell their produce across multiple platforms seamlessly. …

It’s a sad day for 450 local and small-scale British farmers and artisan food producers. Farmdrop, a darling in the ethical food sector, shut its doors today leaving hundreds of family food producers out of pocket and without a route to market. Having been in this game for over a…

The pivot from an in house home delivery service to a SaaS platform for independent home delivery operations is going well. UK platform sales (GMV) grew from £0 to £1Million in the first 12 months. …

Ooooby launched UK operations with a Bristol hub in mid May 2020. Less than a year later there are now 11 hubs operating throughout the UK which have generated over £1M in local & organic food sales. This result was achieved through some proper hard work and a £75k seed…

Home delivery of organic food is not a new idea. It’s been around for generations and no doubt it’ll be around for generations to come. …