Happy & Healthy Products Inc.
With Fruitfull bars, you'll see the fruits of your labor every day.
By Devlin Smith
For Judy Clark, a family trip to South Carolina in 1999 provided
a respite from her high-stress job as chief nursing officer at an
Indianapolis-area hospital. But it also introduced her to a product
that would ultimately allow her to spend more time with her family
while earning a living: Fruitfull frozen fruit bars.
Clark's family had spent most of its vacation at the beach.
For fun, Clark decided to take a break from soaking up the sun and
took her husband and four kids to a nearby plantation that had been
transformed into a sculpture garden. "The kids were bemoaning
the fact that we were spending all this time looking at
sculptures," she explains, "but they found a little
refreshment stand on the map."
What they found at that refreshment stand has turned into a
successful business for Clark and her family. Back home in Indiana,
Clark launched her Happy & Healthy Products Inc. franchise in
late 1999, filling up freezers near Indianapolis with Fruitfull
bars. Today, the business has truly become a family affair, with
everyone helping to fill the walk-in freezer Clark installed in her
back barn and load Clark's truck each night before she makes
deliveries. In the summer, Clark's children go on deliveries
with her, cleaning freezers while Mom unloads the truck.
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During the rest of the year, Clark's open schedule lets her
chaperone her children's school trips and avoid the stress of
her former nursing career. Says Clark, "Now I have the
flexibility [to] mix the [family] things that I need to do with
what I need to do with my [business]."