Winner announced - Win a trip to London and the innocent AGM (A Grown-up Meeting)

Competition update: Congratulations to Ronan O'Leary who'll be joining us in Fruit Towers London next weekend at the innocent AGM (a grown up meeting). Stay tuned to our blog to see how Ronan and his guest of choice get along over in Fruit Towers London.

We've always liked to know what you think of the stuff we make. Your phone calls, letters, emails and visits into Fruit Towers Dublin make sure we know what you think we should do next and what we could do better. Every year we hold our very own AGM (A Grown-up Meeting), where 150 of you come to the innocent HQ in Fruit Towers London, ask some questions, learn a bit more about our business, make and taste some new stuff, and eat cake. And we’re rather excited about this year’s AGM on Saturday 8th of October.

Last year we brought lucky blog reader Mark Moran and his friend over to Fruit Towers London to report back for everyone else, and we'll be sending somebody else this year. Read on to find out more.

It’s our fourth AGM, but the first at the brand spanking new HQ office in Ladbroke Grove, London. It’s a proper tower the new office, right next to a canal with real life ducks floating about, and special taps that dispense boiling water. It's great.

We’re running a competition to fly one of you, our loyal drinkers-of-smoothies-and-readers-of-blog, and a friend, to London, with hotel accommodation nearby Fruit Towers London included, to attend our AGM on October 8th.

To win the free trip to London, just post the question you’d like to ask Adam, Jon and Rich the founders of innocent in the comments section below, and through a very scientific process possibly involving arm wrestling, we’ll pick a winner from the most interesting questions. The lucky winner could get to ask their question to them in person.

So comment away, question away, make us smile or gasp or scratch our heads - it’s over to you...

Competition closed.

 

Comments

[Belinda]

How long does it take from initial idea to get a new smoothie flavour on the shelf?

[Jenny]

Have any of your smoothie flavours happened by accident (for instance, you were suppose to put in a specific fruit but ran out so substituted it with another that ended up tasting better)?

[Sean Thompson]

did you find that your drinks remained as popular during the recession - or did u notice an increase in certain flavours

[Helena O'Keeffe]

Where does Innocent go from here and can we help on facebook?

[Ali NiDhalaigh]

Is there not a conflict of interest in your commitment to natural healthy food and sustainability on the one hand, and allowing Coca Cola to take a 58% stake in your company on the other?

[Ronan O'Leary]

As a student who is studying entrepreneurship, how did you come up with the idea for Innocent Smoothies? Did it take a long time to come up with or was it just a sudden brainwave? Finally, Did you expect the product to become as big as it is now?
Thanks!
(woops, sorry its more than one question)

[ROBERTA DOWLING]

How are you able to contain cost but at the same time keep your product natural with 100% pure fruit,no added
sugar and no concentrates? Where do you get the ingredients? I mean from which country do you get it? Do you check that the labour are treated fairly?Thank you

[Deirdre Sheridan]

What next?? Innocent...guilt-free ice-pops??

[Sandra]

How are you so sure your products are "Innocent" ? Because they taste wicked !!!

[Richard]

where's the free bar??

[Antoinette Philpott Collins]

You claim to be super innocent but I'm sure you sometimes let your DEVILISH side rip...?

[Aileen White]

Why did you, considering the ethos you have always projected, sell out to Coca Cola? :(

[Carol Hughes]

I always tell my kids not to plan too far ahead as I think you need to go with the flow of life. Did any of you plan to become founders of a smoothie & drink company or did you have very different plans for your life?

[Alice Charles]

Have you thought of developing packs to allow people to make their own smoothies at home? I love your smoothies, but also love making my own and wish you would produce a pack with the ingredients to enable me to make my own smoothies.

[kim colliton]

How is it possible to make smoothies & drinks so devilishly tasty from natural ingredients with no artificial ingredients, no added sugar etc...
There is a god after all! What a tasty innocent god he is too ;-)

[Gil Moore]

Why do you include 'gimmicks' in your smoothie packs i.e. fridge magnets etc? Do you not think reducing the price would a better way forward?

[Owen]

I imagine you guys are like the Willy Wonka of fruit related niceties, so i must ask, who has the funkiest hat??

[Sinead Lennon]

What is your best selling product?

[lisa clancy]

have you guys noticed an improvement in health, agility, stamina or any other benefits from csrinking the innocent products since production began?

[Sarah Callinan]

So who out of the 3 founders of Innocent....Adam, Jon and Rich is actually the most innocent in real life?! Also who came up with the name and why? Thanks S**

[fiona o'farrell]

my kids love your smoothies, as do I, being an alternative health practitioner specialising in kiddie health, you get a big thumbs up from me! However, my kids are very young and struggle putting in the straw. Any plans for an Innocent water & fruit drink in resealable bpa-free bottle? Be SO handy in my house..thanks, fiona

[Deirdre Kearney]

It's fabulous that you use abundent mixtures of fab fruits in your smoothies, but awful that they have to be boiled within an inch of their fruity lives in the pasturising process. Any prospect of an innocent smoothie bar so they can be as fresh and fab as possible?

[Cora Doyle]

Innocent smoothies.... there's little innocent about them... they are all knowing, delicious and provoke many memories in one simple sip..!

[Ashling O Loughlin]

f you were an innocent smoothie, what flavour would you be ? :-P

[susie connolly]

what is your best selling flavour product