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A senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in management, strategic planning, and operational implementation Guy Ironi and his partner Josh Abramson were called to turn around a beverage manufacturer producing cold press juices using high-pressure processing technology. He soon understood the process was very labor-intensive and challenging to perform at a profitable level. However, Guy quickly identified that the business was exceptional at picking, packing, and shipping the juices directly to its clients’ customers.

On behalf of the family office that invested in the founding leadership team, Guy took over NutriFresh Services as its CEO in 2016 and pivoted the organization from a contract beverage manufacturer to the industry’s best perishable fulfillment partner for B2C and B2B eCommerce companies. Since Guy’s takeover, the company has achieved more than 100% YoY revenue growth for past 4 consecutive years and achieved nearly 30X earnings growth. NutriFresh was recently included as one of Inc. Magazine’s “2021’s 5,000 Fastest Growing Companies” and named by Goldman Sachs as one of the “100 Most Intriguing Companies” for 2021.

The Leading Perishable Fulfillment Platform

Headquartered in Edison, NJ with 11 additional nationwide facilities, NutriFresh is the leading cold chain eCommerce logistics partner for established and emerging B2C and B2B food and beverage brands. The organization’s portfolio of services includes frozen and cold storage, white-glove pick and pack services, and industry-leading carrier optimization allowing 1-day ground transit to more than 85% of the country.

Guy and his team at NutriFresh believe that shipping perishable goods doesn’t need to be complicated or costly. The organization acts as an extension of their clients’ business operations department to ensure their cold and frozen products are delivered to their customers on-time and at-temp, improving their bottom lines.

The NutriFresh team also realizes the fact that batching and shipping alone doesn’t solve all of its clients’ primary pain points. So, the organization now offers a completely personalized and comprehensive approach to ensure the products reach their customers in a much faster, easier, and cost-efficient manner.

Staying Ahead of the Competition

Under Guy’s leadership, NutriFresh helps its customers with a tech-enabled, all-in-one eCommerce fulfillment platform that allows brands to quickly deploy a national fulfillment program at a scale. According to Guy, “In this new and rapidly changing on-demand world, we allow businesses to access highly-customizable operations and flexible, bespoke shipping solutions based on their specific needs across delivery performance, the efficiency of spend, and integrated technology requirements.”

As an organization, NutriFresh is well positioned in the market of perishable eCommerce fulfillment for food and beverage brands. While most of its consumers are focused on the B2C market, NutriFresh has started working with companies selling and shipping wholesale products directly to businesses.

Unlike traditional 3PL businesses, NutriFresh welcomes the complexities of perishable fulfillment by handling custom packaging, complex kitting and pick arrays, and inserting dry ice or gel packs to keep products at safe temperatures during transit. The NutriFresh value proposition includes a sophisticated technology platform that allows its partners to access entirely outsourced fulfillment and operations solutions. Beyond its strategically distributed national perishable fulfillment centers, another core advantage for NutriFresh’s customers is access to enterprise-level shipping services across various national and regional parcel carriers.

Tackling Challenges

The fundamental challenge of NutriFresh’s core activity lies with the perishability factor of food and food waste. Every year ⅓ of the food produced in the world perishes before consumption, which if calculated equates to 1.3 billion tons, resulting in more atmospheric carbon emissions than the entire airline industry. In proper conditions, this amount of food could feed as many as 2 billion people, twice the number of people suffering from hunger across the planet.

The organization is doing its part to solve this worldwide challenge. Its High-Pressure Processing (HPP) extends shelf-life through a non-thermal process that eliminates contamination. NutriFresh has an annual tolling capacity of 120 million pounds, thanks to its dedicated hyperbaric HPP machines.

Additionally, the organization enables a much greener and environmentally friendly emissions footprint by creating a more efficient supply chain, which is done by decreasing the distance a product needs to travel. In the NutriFresh supply chain, manufactured products are directly sent to one of its fulfillment centers directly from the manufacturer. Then the organization distributes those products across its network of fulfillment centers to be stored as close as possible to the final customer. When an eCommerce order is placed, NutriFresh packs each perishable parcel with care and delivers to the end consumer on behalf of their clients.

Guy also notes: “We use solar power in our freezer facilities, we ship with dry ice (which never produces or releases additional carbon dioxide into the environment) and gel packs to reduce spoilage during transit. The future of commerce is online, and NutriFresh is committed to providing our customers with the most sustainable, environmentally-conscious perishable fulfillment solution in the market.”

Preparing for the Future

When it comes to the future, NutriFresh aims to maintain its position as the leader in the cold and frozen eCommerce fulfillment industry, while continuing its transformation into the most advanced solution via disruptive logistics technology. To achieve that, Guy and his team will continue to expand NutriFresh’s warehouse network by acquiring new facilities, investing in tech R&D, and developing its personalized approach even further to give its clients the feeling of joining an elite supply chain crew and long-term partner.

Launched as one of the first real estate companies in Destin during the early 70s, Abbott Realty Services became the largest employer in Northwest Florida between the period of the 80s to the late 90s. Today the natives of the Emerald Coast, Nathan, Erin, and Amanda Abbott, carry forward Abbott Realty Services’ tradition as the third generation of Abbott Realtors.

Nathan and Erin Abbott started their career in real estate in 2002 as a husband-wife team. Later in 2010, they started expanding their team as the Nathan Abbott Team, and a decade later, in 2020, they relaunched Abbott Realty Service. Even amidst the chaos created by the pandemic, it broke all records in production with its team and was featured in Inc 5000’s list as one of the fastest growing companies in all industries. Later in 2021, Abbott Realty Services Merged with eXp Realty, one of the fastest-growing global real-estate companies in history.

In 2017, Nathan shared a vision with TJ Martin to launch a joint venture specializing in developer consultation, new home, and resort sales. TJ is a native of the area with a proven track record of success in land acquisitions and new home sales throughout the Florida Panhandle. Armed with TJ’s generational background in development and experience as the top sales agent in two large development firms, TJ and Nathan decided to broaden their horizons further and launched The Abbott Martin Group | eXp Realty. With its offices in Pensacola and Miramar Beach, the firm has successfully launched and sold several new construction communities by helping developers with new land acquisition opportunities, top-performing sales teams, and consultations from the ground up.

Since its inception, the real estate firm has continued to perform within the top 1/2% in terms of real estate sales in the Florida Panhandle and within the top 1% nationally. The firm takes immense pride in raising a higher standard of expectation for its clients and the real estate industry as a whole.

Keeping the Team Motivated

With the ability to create greatness for others, Nathan and his team consider each day a new day. They also prefer to focus on impact over commissions. He states, “If you practice every day with incredible drive, you will eventually make it to the big game. This career path allows us to have access to people’s personal lives in ways most careers don’t allow. Focus on positively impacting others; your life will also be impacted through serving others in high regard.”

Tackling Challenges and the Pandemic

The emotions in real estate sales can feel like a roller coaster ride of several highs and lows. Nathan believes the market can go up or down by its nature, and one has to adapt and make the most of it in all situations. He says, “It is important to keep your emotions in the middle and to show up daily! Keeping your agent’s head in the game of all markets while helping them understand you can make an impact in any market is important.”

“If you practice every day with incredible drive, you will eventually make it to the big game. This career path allows us to have access to people’s personal lives in ways most careers don’t allow. Focus on positively impacting others; your life will also be impacted through serving others in high regard.”

Abbott Martin Group works diligently to keep their heads in the game and to show up with the right drive at any market condition rather than utilizing the market conditions as an excuse for not finding success.

The pandemic helped many realize that we humans can’t buy our time. With the pandemic, many organizations opted to work from home, keeping the safety of their employees in mind. Emerald Coast has always been a well-known vacation destination, but with Covid-induced lockdowns and work-from-home, the coast is witnessing substantial residential growth, which eventually helps Abbott Martin Group to grow at a rapid pace.

Picture of the Future

The Abbott Martin Group|eXp Realty’s primary goal is to become an outlet for agents worldwide to understand the benefits of eXp Realty while building partnerships with individuals working for a greater purpose. The firm plans to serve more than 1000 clients yearly to make the maximum impact possible.

Nathan explains, “Our focus is to continue to build an organization that improves lives while showing up together of us all rowing in the right direction for the ultimate purpose…. To build a legacy by making a positive impact on others. We will continue to focus on providing an outlet for people to become the best version of themselves.”

 

 

 

With a wide range of wellness products, including single herbal teas and wellness blends that focus on specific elements, Buddha Teas is a platform for, health and wellness. The firm has also started a new line of CBD teas, which are quite popular amongst its clients. The CBD industry is well known for managing pain, and other health issues. However, Buddha Teas decided to step up the tea game and paired some amazing herbs with its water-soluble CBD. So far, the product is well received amongst the users. Overall, the company is true health and wellness-oriented company.

The founder of Buddha Teas, John Boyd, moved to the US from England, where tea is the drink of choice. Since his relocation, he commonly found that the US lacked the diversity and quality he was looking for. John wanted something healthy, organic, and geared towards people, who are seeking relief from certain health issues. What the entire industry lacked, became a motivation for John. He knew that he could fill the void, which eventually led to the foundation of Buddha Teas.

The Steadfast Leader John went to Leeds University for civil engineering but only after real consideration and some life experiences. For instance, John worked for a seismic surveying company when he was just 18. It eventually helped him to afford the luxury of being able to travel to other countries throughout Europe, meet all sorts of people, have some insane food, and drink some phenomenal wine. Gaining that cultural element of food and drink during his travels was a big reason why John felt like he could start a business that was based on customers’ wants and needs.

John likes to keep a few consultants on hand and he visits lots of trade shows specifically for tea companies. He feels, they’re up to date on all the latest packing equipment and various methods to produce products quickly and efficiently. Otherwise, Buddha Teas just likes to keep to its norm. Like the old saying goes “Why fix what isn’t broken?”

How the Pandemic Affected

The pandemic was a trying time for Buddha Teas’ business. Employee safety was of the utmost importance and the firm implemented a lot of new cleaning and sanitizing procedures. Buddha Teas’ employees were truly the main concern for the firm and it was able to navigate the pandemic without any unnecessary stress on its workers. Buddha Teas as a whole didn’t take too much of a hit because people started to investigate alternate methods of medicine.

So, some of its teas, such as Elderberry, and Mushroom Wellness blends became even more popular than before. John hopes this sort of thing never happens again but Buddha Teas will be more prepared this time around, as will everyone.

Preparing for the Future

As the founder, John believes, Buddha Teas will always strive to stay on top of the latest and greatest but it will also focus on making the products it already has even better. Buddha Teas certainly is planning to launch more products for even more specific health reasons. Customers can expect a few new and interesting products to launch soon. Ideas that were brought to life by feedback from its consumers.

John adds, “Challenges in business are always there and the tea industry is no different.

The tea business has been around for ages and now, it’s quite saturated.” There are thousands of brands out there to choose from. However, setting itself apart is the key. Buddha Teas has to make sure stores want to pick up the product and then it has to ensure customers want to pick up its boxes of tea and take them home. John thinks the packaging is attractive and eye-catching. Of course, the best part is when customers pick them up and see that all the products are organic with only the best ingredients.

Advice for Younger Self

When we asked John for suggestions, he said, “To be successful in any business, you have to be super passionate about what you want to create. Surrounding yourself with supportive people and being a strong and inspirational leader is a must, also. It doesn’t hurt to have some kick-ass employees, too.”

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Born and raised in Montgomery County, MD, Dr. Josh Funk grew his interest in becoming a physical therapist when going through Physical Therapy as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State.

Through the rehabilitation of his torn labrum and rotator cuff, Dr. Josh successfully avoided surgery and played at his peak performance for the remainder of his college and professional lacrosse career. After avoiding his surgery, Dr. Josh got entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Since then, he has continually developed his expertise and knowledge base as a physical therapist and as a business owner.

A lifelong athlete, Dr. Josh earned his B.S. degree from the Ohio State University and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore.

During the rehabilitation process, Dr. Josh noticed that the sports rehabilitation and physical therapy environment for Division one athletes was completely unique compared to what was available to the masses.

Because of this significant difference, he established Rehab 2 Perform in 2014, which provides. Division One Athletics experience for competitive athletes, active adults, and those looking to be more fit and active.

The firm helps by providing fitness-focused physical therapy, sports rehabilitation, concussion care, and wellness services to competitive athletes, active adults, and those looking to increase their activity. Rehab 2 Perform is now present at 7 locations across Maryland, planning to open its 8th location in Virginia.

Understanding the Pulse of the Industry

As the CEO, Dr. Josh believes being connected to people and companies who are constantly innovating is the key to being on top of something new. The firm does its best to keep a pulse on the thought leaders and high achievers operating in the same industry or being incredibly impactful in other sectors.

Adding to his physical therapy expertise, Dr. Josh is entirely committed to the growth of his firm. Since the company’s inception, he has made sure that his personal development is not just reserved for the clinical side of things. Instead, he made Rehab 2 Perform one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in its area. Dr. Josh has also made significant efforts to ensure that the customers and employees receive everything they need to perform at their best.

Tackling Challenges

The biggest challenge for the firm is the overall distaste and distrust of the U.S. healthcare system. Especially in the U.S, many view healthcare as a grudge purchase. Dr. Josh believes the way care is being provided and communicated, the cost, and the overall perception of value make sure that Rehab 2 Perform needs to create an environment of trust. He believes the firm still needs to climb a significant hill in order to introduce a ‘Get To’ environment where people are genuinely invested in the health and wellness system and feel that by interacting with the healthcare system and getting a good return on their investment.

Since the emergence of the pandemic, most countries have imposed strict lockdown measures to keep their citizens safe. Social distancing was made mandatory, which heavily impacted firms that are dependent on physical interaction.

Rehab 2 Perform is no different; the pandemic caused challenges for the people interacting with the business in person. So, it shifted its focus towards virtual visits and ensured the team and patients felt comfortable while interacting.

However, Rehab 2 Perform quickly realized that the pandemic would not be here forever, so it focussed on improving its processes, which would help the firm build a better business post-pandemic.

Mission and Vision

With a mission to lower the risk of re-injury, Rehab 2 Perform empowers its clients to stay physically active and achieve performance in areas that matter to them. Focused on providing education and physical competency, the firm caters to athletes irrespective of their background. It also offers a hybrid solution between traditional physical therapy and personal training to improve movement and increase physicality.

Advice for Young Leaders

Dr. Josh advises young entrepreneurs to find their tribe. He says, “The right people in your corner personally and professionally will make or break you. They will keep you moving forward during the trials and tribulations you go through and keep you grounded when you are doing well.

Future Roadmap

In the future, Dr. Josh aspires to transform his company beyond the physical rehabilitation space. He feels the firm should expand as a lifestyle and performance company, not just as a physical therapy and sports rehabilitation company. The leadership team already has the ideas and initiatives internally to make that a reality.

More Info:- https://rehab2perform.com/