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Husband-and-wife team Claire and John Brumby, who set up Scrubbys in 2012, will remain with the new business. The Grimsby business called in administrators at Duff & Phelps on 9 May 2016 with AIB Foods subsequently buying the assets and the Scrubbys brand. She added that the business needed more money to push the brand to the next stage. “The existing shareholders and directors had gone as far as they could with financial investment and we were all of a mind that we wanted the brand to continue and thrive.” He said: "We left Dragons' Den with a deal but it didn't complete for a lot of reasons, mainly down to me. I wanted a level of commitment in writing but that wasn't forthcoming so we parted ways quite amicably. But Tags, which first revealed that it was targeting supermarkets in 2014, is no longer focused on securing new listings with major grocery chains.

The founder of a Liverpool-based independent crisp company has told Insider that the business is no longer trying to secure supermarket listings and revealed why he walked away from a deal secured in a bidding war on the BBC's Dragons' Den. If I'm really honest, I wanted to retain the company in the family and they're business guys obviously so they just had different objectives." Tague said: "We've had a change of direction. We're trying to get more into coffee shops, hotels, pubs and other foodservice operators like that. We're not currently looking at supermarkets anymore, they only sell on offer. Sales increased as a result of the exposure from the BBC programme and the business secured an injection of funds from food investor Granary Investment Partners, which became a minority partner.

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Vegetable crisp brand Scrubbys, which has appeared on Dragons’ Den and has a nationwide listing with Waitrose, has been acquired by an ethnic food manufacturer after filing for administration. We’re launching with a couple of larger retailers I can’t name just yet, and also we’re launching with (online grocer)Ocado.” At the time the Dragons’ Den episode was recorded Pawson and Sea Chips co-founder Dominic Smith were still making the crisps by hand, but since then Grants Smokehouse owner Jonathan Brown has taken a one-third stake in the company, supplying not just investment but considerable experience and a ready supply of salmon skins – a resource previously discarded by Grants. Scrubbys’ five-strong range of vegetable crisps is now available in Waitrose, Ocado and Holland & Barrett, as well as independent retailers and through foodservice distributors.

At that point last year I think we’d sold about 3,000 bags, which was all we could make, but I think we did that in about an hour after Dragons’ Den,” Pawson told Fish Farming Expert.Supplies of Sea Chips sold out after Sunday's Dragons' Den episode. Photo: Joe Horner. Large supply of skins But not long after filming, the proposed deal fell through. Like all investments agreed on air, it then underwent due diligence to iron out the finer details.