Australian social enterprise Thankyou Group is headed to New Zealand this year with its managing director Daniel Flynn speaking at next months PwC Herald Talk's event.
The company has made its name by donating 100 per cent of the profits from its retail sales to fund charitable projects in disadvantaged countries.
"We have the ability to make all that happen but the really cool part is every quarter when we give out our profits and we've raised A$5.5 million to date and impacted just over 755,000 people with access to food, water and health programmes globally," Flynn said.
Thankyou Group now has 55 staff, 46 consumer products including water, food products like muesli and muesli bars which funds food programmes, a body care range including hand wash and lotions that fund health and sanitation and a baby products range which funds maternal health programmes.
The business was founded by Flynn, his now wife Justine, and friend Jarryd Burns in 2008 when Flynn was just 19-years-old.
