Co Armagh entrepreneur Claire Geddis is taking her organic skincare brand, Wild Shore, to the next level.

Armagh entrepreneur Claire Geddis is taking her organic skincare brand, Wild Shore, to the next level.

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00:00When my mentor visited Wildshore and he smelt the products, he was

00:06immediately transported to a luxury hotel that he had went to abroad and it

00:10was the lightbulb moment when my imagination was open to it sitting in a

00:16luxury hotel.

00:21My name is Claire and I'm the proprietor and handcrafter of Wildshore. It's an

00:27organic luxury spa collection and I make it here on the southern shores of Loch Ness.

00:31I had a prior business in the beauty industry for 15 years, so very

00:38accomplished in working with skin and health and well-being and I wanted to

00:43develop my own particular brand that was very much about healing and being organic.

00:48Go Succeed helped me realise the dream of bringing Wildshore to boutique hotels and

00:55into hospitality. So it was just a dream but Go Succeed has helped that actually

00:59become a reality. With the Go Succeed service I was very kindly introduced to a

01:04mentor and he was steering me through the financial implications of being able to

01:10scale up. But the other thing that actually was involved with it that I was

01:13able to apply for a grant after our mentorship time and that allowed me to

01:17buy quite a significant piece of equipment for the business.

01:22Signing up to Go Succeed was extremely easy. I just sent through an email to our

01:26ABC council and I was very kindly like within hours an email came back to me and

01:31then we set up a telephone conversation to see exactly what it is that I needed and

01:36what avenue that I would like to go down and then I was passed on to the mentor

01:41that would help me within that street.

01:44Probably the ultimate goal now would be to make a full treatment spa range and

01:51competing then on a global market as a full spa treatment product range.

01:56Thank you so much for joining us.