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Who ate all the pies? Building a pie shop into a multi-million dollar business

Entrepreneur Series: Eddie Grooten turned a rundown beach store into a global business.

Calida Stuart-Menteath
 Mon, 07 Jan 2019

Some 38 years ago, Eddie Grooten bought a rundown beach store with a little bakehouse at the back.

The pies were terrible but he’s vastly improved them and built Dad’s Pies along the way into a business with multi-million dollar annual sales and his products stocked by supermarkets, petrol

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Calida Stuart-Menteath
 Mon, 07 Jan 2019
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