A friend's wife started an at home high end custom chocolates business. Mixes her own chocolates, uses a variety of forms to pre-form the objects, adds customizations to create her unique brand and takes customer specific requests. Corporations and private sector businesses order them for employee recognition, people order for life's various celebrations, some local stores carry her more generic, seasonal chocolates. She does small batches, has had to turn away high volume business opportunities because she doesn't want to grow that big. She's been operating ~15 years.
That's nice to have such demand to be able to scale back
A niche market segment, years of hard work and self promotion, a quality product at a reasonable price, delivered on time. To my knowledge she had no direct competition. By the time her business needed to go "big" because of demand, she's approaching retirement age.
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