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Innovative Manufacturing – To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co.

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Peggy Sutton, founder of To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co., is the guest on episode 12 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. The company is the 2015 recipient of Outstanding Achievement in Innovative Manufacturing

To Your Health Sprouted Flour Company in Fitzpatrick Alabama is the recipient of the Alabama Launchpad 2015 award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovative Manufacturing.

To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co. Product Packages

These awards will be presented at Alabama Launchpad’s annual Innovation event, September 2 in Birmingham.

Today’s guest is Peggy Sutton, who co-founded To Your Health Sprouted Flour Company with her husband and they’ve grown the business from a kitchen startup to a major economic force in Bullock County, with more than 30 employees.

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Founder Peggy Sutton shares her entrepreneurial journey with To Your Health Sprouted Flour Company, how the company has grown, and how its product line fits into the rapidly growing global market for real food.

I’m a big proponent of eating real food and believe that real food–like organic sprouted grains–is a linchpin in solving two major problems in Alabama: Chronic disease and also rural economic development.

Thanks to the willing support of her co-founder husband, Peggy’s company is now sprouting 10,000 pounds of grains and legumes each day and serves a global market.

You can purchase To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co. products through the company’s website.

Peggy Sutton, founder of To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co., is the guest on episode 12 of the Ignite Alabama podcast

This interview will also be published on the Shine Springs Farm Shinecast and the Discover Grow Shinecast. If you want to learn more about how to prepare real food and real food fits into a healthy, happy life I hope you’ll check out my latest podcast, the Discover Grow Shinecast, and my soon-to-be-released ebook, 7 Days of real Food.

 

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Soluble Therapeutics Inc. Eases Pharma R&D Bottleneck

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Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. was formed in 2008 to commercialize technology developed by UAB researchers. This HSC™ Technology helps to deal with a bottleneck in pharmaceutical R&D–the identification of appropriate biologic solutions to deliver protein-based drugs.

The  HSC™ Technology also has industrial applications.

In 2010 Dr. Joseph M. Garner came on board as CEO of Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. to lead the commercialization efforts and continue to validate the technology.

Director of Business Development, John McCarter, is the guest of this episode of Ignite Alabama. He began working with Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. in 2010 as an intern and moved through the ranks in business development.

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John explains the company’s transition from a primary focus on technology validation to the commercialization of the technology and expansion.

He also describes some of the capitalization sources, which have included significant infusion from venture capital funds and a $1 million NIH grant.

Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. has a global customer base and John explains how he uses webinars, LinkedIn and other internet-based communications technology to complement his marketing efforts at international conferences. 

We also talk about the attributes of a 21st century economy and whether Alabama and Birmingham is moving in the right direction.

PDF transcripts of each episode of Ignite Alabama will soon be available for purchase at a nominal price.

Ignite Alabama is a Shinecast® podcast developed, produced and hosted by Sheree Martin.

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