Grow and Make (www.growandmake.com) is the largest manufacturer and supplier of DIY (Do-it-yourself) Kits for those who wish to make more of what they consume. With over 100 unique products, we help people to make their own candles, soaps, beer, wine, cheese and much more. Our customers use our kits to become 'makers' at home, to make gifts for friends and family or to give as gifts and for special events.

Grow and Make is in it's eighth year of business. The first 3 years were spent determining the right model and developing a product line. The past 4 years we have experienced steady growth (3x) and demand has exceeded capacity each holiday season. Our products have good margins and the addressable market (Gift & Craft DIY) is very large. We currently have no direct competitors and to date have not had an active sales and marketing effort.

Our business sells directly through our website (www.growandmake.com), Amazon, Etsy, Ebay and other online channels (50% margin). We also sell through drop-ship partnerships (35% margin) with many popular online destinations (Brit+co.com, DarbySmart.com, Food52...) where they carry our products and we fulfill the orders. We also sell wholesale to popular brands like (Williams Sonoma, Anthropologie, UnCommon Goods),... (25% margins). We are currently in discussions with Barnes & Noble, Sur La Table, Create & Barrel and TJ Maxx regarding carrying our line in 2016. We have had no active sales or marketing effort to date and all of this business is unsolicited.

Historically Grow and Make has been challenged to meet the demand during the pre-holiday (September/October) and holiday seasons. We have always had demand which exceeds our capacity and at the peak have had to stop taking orders for 4 years straight, missing 25% of annual sales potential.

In 2015 our focus was on building infrastructure for our manufacturing process. This includes both physical infrastructure and an end-to-end cloud based software solution for managing everything from procurement to accounts receivable. Our infrastructure is in place for ensuring scalability and capacity as we work with large retail chains in 2016.

Our goal in raising capital is to first, continue to build our inventories to further ensure that we can meet continuing demand. We will also realize higher margins by purchasing in larger volumes. In November of 2015 we hired a marketing manager and in January a sales and channel manager to begin an active sales effort in 2016.