Niche Business Ideas

Veganism – a vegetarian diet that excludes meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients – has a gained a massive following as many people start to avoid eating animal products for various reasons. I sometimes accompany my sister who is a vegetarian to the shops and notice the very small selection of products […]

Today we will be looking at the niche business of the retro product business. One of the most common sales questions is “What are you selling?” When selling something you are trying to figure out what it is that people need or want and what it is that they will buy. It is often said […]

The food industry can be competitive which is why you need to find a niche where the margins are good enough to make a sustainable business. One of the less competitive food niche’s is the healthy bakery niche where people are willing to pay a premium for a quality product.   What is healthy baked […]

There is a global movement to replace plastic drinking straws with a more environmentally friendly equivalent. Whether or not you care about plastic drinking straws polluting our oceans, there is a business opportunity with large corporations trying to appear responsible with no longer making plastic straws available but they lack a proper alternative. So far […]

If you are looking to enter the cold dessert business in South Africa you will be going up against large incumbents, ice cream has various multinational brands while the frozen yogurt business is wrapped up by market leader Marcels. There is one frozen dessert item item that is curiously absent in South Africa and that […]