The chief executive of the infant formula group says US and China sales have jumped from unexpected events, including a call with Joe Biden.
via a Zoom call from Melbourne and gained his imprimatur to be one of the companies filling the supply gaps in the US.
Bubs Australia CEO Kristy Carr at the group’s infant formula factory at Dandenong in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. Ms Carr said on Friday that the China uplift had also been strong. Social media star Will Liu, a father of three children, had been signed on as an ambassador for Bubs and a new product called Bubs Supreme just before Shanghai went into an extended lockdown in early April to thwart a new wave of COVID-19.
“It was very much a case of right place and right time,” she said on Friday. She was speaking from Columbus in the United States as a fresh delivery of formula was about to arrive. She said Mr Liu’s optimistic tone and happy dances on the Chinese equivalent of TikTok had proved extremely popular. “He really represents the modern family,” she said.and this is flowing through into profits.
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