Blackpool body builder champion sees his healthy food business grow
Zack McGuirk has seen demand soaring for his Macro’s Health Bar business in 2019.
He launched his first food bar in 2017 in Whitegate Drive, Blackpool aiming to use his detailed knowledge of nutrition from years of body building to help people eat more healthily.
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Hide AdNow Zack, who was IFBB World Classic Body BuildingChampion 2016, has bars in Wood Street, St Annes and at the DW Fitness First in Vicarage Lane.And
he opened a specialist food preparation centre in Blackpool to do direct deliveries to customers.
The business has also won the Business Newcomer Award in the Radio Wave Culture and Lifestyle Awards.
He said: “What we have done in such a short period of time is pretty crazy. I am getting up at 5.30 in the morning.
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Hide Ad“It is about giving people an option for tasty, healthy food.
“When I started out I was concerned about the general obesity problems in Blackpool and wanted to do something to help. When I was competing in body building I found it hard to find somewhere to eat out in Blackpool and saw a gap in the market for health bars like Macro’s.
“I wanted to show that eating healthily could also mean eating really tasty food. It has grown and grown.”
“I have now got 16 members of staff and we are going to start pushing the direct deliveries as there are lots of offices on the Fylde Coast which would benefit from healthy food options.”
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Hide AdThe business got help from Blackpool Council’s business support service Get Started when it launched.
The service aims to help people start their own businesses and offers workshops on a variety of business issues plus on-going mentoring to help make the new businesses a success.