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By Praseeda Nair2021-04-15T17:29:00+01:00
Tanki, an environmentally friendly toilet paper business rolled out since lockdown is set for £1 million of sales in its first year. Here’s how founder Matt O’Crowley grabbed onto a trend and ran with it.
“One day my loo blocked, and I suddenly remembered all the places in the world where a paper bin sits next to the lavatory due to the sewerage systems not being able to cope,” says Matt O’Crowley, the founder of an award-winning lockdown startup, Tanki.
The toilet paper business is glue and plastic-free and while it’s suitable for household use, is primarily aimed at the maritime and leisure market where disposal is a huge and messy issue.
The last year has turned the working lives of millions of people across the country upside-down.
Unemployment levels have reached their highest for nearly five years and thousands of people are still on furlough, while others have been seemingly left high and dry in terms of financial support from the Government.
The situation is gloomy, but there are pockets of entrepreneurial spirit and gritty determination sprouting up all over Britain, with start-ups being led by people who ve undergone radical career shifts in recent months.
This is Money spoke exclusively to two people, Matt O Crowley and Lena Bond, who have experienced fairly extreme career changes during the Covid-19 outbreak.