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Speaker 1: Success story out of Taranaki startup Husky has hit multimillion

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Speaker 1: dollar profits with their world first wine cooler tech. So

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Speaker 1: it's a nice free coller keeps the champagne cold for

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Speaker 1: up to six hours. They've just secured the largest commercial

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Speaker 1: export order to the UK for seventy six thousand units now.

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Speaker 1: Simon hiss A is the co founder of Husky and

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Speaker 1: he's well the Simon, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning, thanks mate.

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Speaker 1: Well doneh blah. But I've had a look this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's a good looking thing. What I like most of

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Speaker 1: all no condensation, because you think the moment you get

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Speaker 1: cold and condensation all over the table, there's not Is

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Speaker 1: it magic or what is it?

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Speaker 2: The technology had actually been around over one hundred years.

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Speaker 2: It works in the same way that like a Thermos

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Speaker 2: Strenk bottle works, but nobody has just turned it around

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Speaker 2: and kind of used it for wine. With the right

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Speaker 2: kind of design, you can put it on and because

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Speaker 2: it keeps the keeps all the cold inside, does the

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Speaker 2: great job of ntilating. You don't get it cold on

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Speaker 2: the outside, so you don't get it cold.

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Speaker 1: It's got the bottle's got a start cold, so the

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Speaker 1: Thermo's idea. The bottle must start cold and it will

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Speaker 1: hold its coldness. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: It's it, So you pull the cold bottle from We

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Speaker 2: wanted it to be super simple. So you pull the

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Speaker 2: cold bottle from the fridge. You've ad the husky off

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Speaker 2: the shelf, which is the room temperature. You put the

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Speaker 2: bottle in the husky. You screw on the lid, and

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what size bottle it is, if it's

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Speaker 2: an Olfants or a Burgundy or a Bordeaux style bottle,

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Speaker 2: you screw on the lid and that's all you have

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Speaker 2: to do. Then you pop it on the table. You

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Speaker 2: pull your glass of wine with your friends. You notice

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Speaker 2: that their glasses of wine are you know, half full

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Speaker 2: or empty, and you unscrew the lid and you top

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Speaker 2: it up. You don't have to kind of go back

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Speaker 2: and forward to the fridge, or you don't have to

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Speaker 2: deal with a nice bucket and condensation.

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Speaker 1: So you don't have to call it in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Are there lots of patents around this or no?

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Speaker 2: Not really, because the means the base technology has been

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Speaker 2: around for so long all of those ones have run out,

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Speaker 2: and then our using it for wine was relatively new.

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Speaker 2: So there wasn't anything that kind of existed in that space.

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Speaker 2: And then we add revolved the product. The Wine Caller

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Speaker 2: was the first one, and then the Champagne Caller, which

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Speaker 2: one the Red Dot Design Award, has the integrated bottle

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Speaker 2: stop in the bottom. Because you've got bubbles with sparkling wine,

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Speaker 2: there's another innovation on it, which so we were able

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Speaker 2: to want to do a pattern on that.

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Speaker 1: Which because they are quite stylish, aren't they. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's as important as anything I think, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's critical. Like when we were designing it,

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Speaker 2: especially for wine, it's there's rituals and romance and everything

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Speaker 2: around that. And we were conscious that were going to

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Speaker 2: build a product or create a product for this, it's

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Speaker 2: going to sit on somebody's table. It has to look

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Speaker 2: really good, it has to perform really well. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was that was super important for us. It had

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Speaker 2: to match the kind of environment.

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Speaker 1: Seventy six thousand units, so you've got that many units.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of units.

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Speaker 2: It was more than we'd produced in the entire year proceeding,

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Speaker 2: so it was it was a big word for us.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we were confident we could make it happen.

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Speaker 2: We've got really good production partners and with the landing

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Speaker 2: on the shores in the UK at the moment, and

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Speaker 2: I can't take it up for because they will be

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Speaker 2: under Christmas trees.

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Speaker 1: I think somewhere well well done. I love a good

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Speaker 1: success story and well done. Congratulations on that, Simon Whosa.

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Speaker 1: Husky is the name of the company, and he seemed

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Speaker 1: so just to explain, just so you're not it's not

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Speaker 1: on the fridge. It's yes. Husky's Wine Call has been

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Speaker 1: around for years. But you've got to cool them down

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Speaker 1: first so they stay cool to keep the wine call.

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Speaker 1: This isn't cool. I know because I've got a Thermisize

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Speaker 1: bought a thermis when my hot water tap, and this

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Speaker 1: my thermist will keep the bottle cool as well, except

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Speaker 1: because it's got a little hole that won't keep put

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Speaker 1: a bottle in, so it just keeps liquid. And so

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Speaker 1: that's just a keep me having to pour your wine

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Speaker 1: in there with a funnel, haven't you Precisely? No one's

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Speaker 1: caught me yet, Glynn. Everyone thinks it's water.

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