Fresh dog food delivery service Butternut Box has appointed THRIVE’s Learning & Skills Platform for its rapidly growing team after the company grew from 150 to 600 employees in just two years.
The partnership is part of an ambitious expansion vision for the UK-based start-up, which recently scaled up its production capabilities to double capacity and underwent a 50% leap in commercial sales in the last year.
Butternut Box, which now has a dedicated team in the Netherlands building the brand’s international market, will use the THRIVE e-learning platform to personalise training and support every individual with tools on the job to continue improving. This is moving away from the more traditional one-size-fits-all classroom training. The THRIVE platform will also provide Butternut Box with smart data to identify what’s working, and where the challenges and opportunities lie in the team’s development.
Crucially, it will also help to improve the Butternut Box onboarding process, anticipating the challenges that new employees might have in their first 90 days, surfacing the right content for those needs, ensuring new staff can quickly adapt to a start-up environment and align with the company’s values, and supporting managers with the resource needed to achieve fast growth.
The partnership comes as THRIVE, the world’s first complete Learning & Skills Platform, has also undergone a period of incredible growth, with the company’s ARR increasing by more than 400% in the last two years.
THRIVE has also achieved a 90% increase in customers in the last year, now helping hundreds of clients including Coca Cola EP, Nando’s, The Financial Times, Sky, Krispy Kreme, Ted Baker, Travis Perkins, Morrisons and others modernise their approach to learning and development.
Alice Collier-Niblett, Learning and Development Lead at Butternut Box, said: “Partnering with THRIVE will result in a dramatic step-change in our learning and development approach at Butternut Box. It will also support our company’s ambitious goals to feed more happy and healthy dogs internationally, while retaining our core values. We have a genuine passion and love for the work we do (work is our walkies), we are constantly striving for better, and as a squad, we look for ways to improve what we do every day. We are all working together on the exciting mission to be the No.1 fresh dog food manufacturer.
“Introducing THRIVE will help us to structure our training around the specific skills we are trying to build. The platform will help us to elevate and track our training while providing an outlet to create content that speaks in our own Tone of Bark. At Butternut Box, we create an environment where everyone’s ideas, opinions and expertise are valued throughout the company, and THRIVE provides the tools for our internal talent to share their knowledge and skills with each other .”
Sean Reddington, CEO and Founder of THRIVE, added: “We are very pleased to have a brand like Butternut Box join our growing list of customers, whose impressive journey as a start-up has taken the industry by storm. Theirs is a remarkable growth story that THRIVE is already very familiar with and keen to nurture. Our platform has already proven how effective it can be by helping so many other forward-thinking companies build an agile L&D strategy, which has enabled them to capitalise on long-term expansion plans and improve training services. We are delighted to now extend these benefits to Butternut Box.”
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