Pocket Plant Launches
Twenty year-old Andrew Cargill of UK launches Pocket Plant. Being inspired by his entrepreneur hero, Richard Branson, Andrew decided to bring this latest Japanese craze to his home country.
The concept of Pocket Plant is to be able to have a mini pet plant that you can take with you anywhere you go. Nice and simple. Prices seem pretty reasonable for one of these little plant chains. It’s surely an interesting business model, one that I haven’t seen before.
Having an actual plant that is growing in your pocket while you take care of business all day is pretty neat. The plant can actually be transported to a larger container after 3-6 months of growth.
I was able to contact Andrew to get an insight into how this idea came about:
The idea all came about last week when out of pure curiosity searching for the latest crazes over in Japan. I discovered a few articles about ‘Pocket Plants’, and just thought they were simply amazing, real living, breathing plants on the end of a key-ring.
I try to be as entrepreneurial as I can so thought to myself that these would sell fantastically well over here in the UK, and I hadn’t seen any around in the shops as of yet, so started working on the site. I then decided to contact the press so to stop others from having the bonus of the mass media to advertise similar products and ended up having a full page in the Western Mail as well a chat live on the Good Evening Wales show.
It’ll be interesting to see if Andrew can get this company to take off in the UK. If he does, who knows, maybe I’ll start to see people selling them on the streets of Manhattan soon enough.
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