Oliver Turner Serves as This Week's Guest Advisor

We are pleased to introduce Oliver Turner as ideablob.com’s guest advisor for the week of September 15, 2008.

Oliver Turner, the director of marketing for The Virginia Chutney Co., helped to turn his mother's chutney-making hobby into a successful specialty food business.  The Virginia Chutney Co. produces all-natural, slow-cooked chutneys and sells them to specialty food distributors and retailers such as Whole Foods Market and Cowgirl Creamery.  Their market niche of "Southern Style Chutneys Best Served with Cheese" has allowed them to benefit from the growing popularity of gourmet cheeses and local food, and has helped them reach the foodie customers that appreciate and are willing to pay for high-end chutney. www.virginiachutney.com

Before the chutney business, Oliver was a journalist in the Telecom industry, wrote two screenplays, ran a small landscaping business, and invented a specialty pillow called the "snuggle-eez."