Entrepreneur finds her sparkle in beverage industry

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kathryn Dougherty was born and raised around Philadelphia. A transfer from her healthcare job at Johnson and Johnson five years in the past landed her in central Ohio. 

In the course of the very last couple of decades, she started to glimpse into entrepreneurship, seeking a health and fitness-aware product or service, with a lot more of a purchaser focus.

“I definitely appeared for a sort of products and a type of small business that I assumed could assist men and women, go folks absent from sugary drinks and from chemical sweeteners and potentially even away from liquor,” stated Dougherty

So Dougherty begun experimenting with some of her favourite tea flavors and all-natural elements, together with plant-based sweetener stevia. 

“I actually created the really to start with model of my item in my kitchen, and designed a concentrate of my favourite natural tea,” she mentioned. “I blended it with glowing drinking water, and that was genuinely how the principle is born.”

Dougherty launched Spritz Tea in January 2020, and even with incredible odds in the course of the pandemic, the organization grew 500% throughout a a person-12 months time period, offering far more than 150,000 cans of glowing tea in 400 destinations, such as virtually 200 Kroger stores.  

“I know for a truth that Spritz would not be around if men and women experienced not continued to aid and get and cheer and help and navigate by way of all of this with me,” claimed Dougherty. “Every time that I have an chance to give back again, I attempt my ideal to.”

Dougherty said Columbus has a unique place inside of the place to come to be a next-generation innovator in food items and beverage manufacturers.

More data on Spritz’s flavored teas might be found online at spritztea.com