How a Third-Generation Entrepreneur Is Helping his Family's Peanut Business Grow and Adapt for the Future
"As a leader of his family's business, the Hubbard Peanut Company (also known as Hubs), Marshall Rabil recently introduced a new product that not only supports a small farmer but delivers a unique product to the consumer. Hubs Single Origin Redskin Peanuts were sold exclusively on the Hubs website and quickly sold out."
"Hubs Peanuts -- that's a different story. The premium peanut producer (a tin costs about $25) has its logo on three-time mini-tour winner Mark "Hubbs" Hubbard's left sleeve. It happened after Marshall Rabil, a third-generation owner of the nut company, DM'ed Hubbard on Instagram."
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"Female entrepreneurship was rare in the 1950s when Dot Hubbard became the pioneer of her craft. It all started as a labor of love. Dot, a mother of four and schoolteacher in Sedley, Virginia, enjoyed hand-picking the biggest peanuts she could find on her father's farm, blister-frying them in her own kitchen and then gifting them to friends. "Her friends loved them and started requesting more of them," said Marshall Rabil, director of sales and marketing at Hubbard Peanut Company -- and Dot's grandson. "My grandparents thought, 'Maybe this could work.'" It worked indeed." Read More on FeastandField.net » - With flavors old and new, Hubs Peanuts are good for you, the earth and the community.
"Simply being at the right place at the right time is a common determinant of good fortune, but sometimes all it takes to luck out is literally having the right name. Mark Hubbard, 42nd in the FedEx Cup rankings headed into the Northern Trust at TPC Boston this week, can thank his lucky stars that he happens to share a surname with a Virginia based peanut company. "
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