The Happy Pear has launched an mobile app offering followers of the health food retail brand advice on "becoming a healthier, happier person" from lifestyle practitioners.
The Happy Pear: Healthy Living is available on iOS and Android from today and features more than 200 plant-based recipes and meal plans from best-selling chefs, and over 150 hours of content from doctors, dietitans, cardiologists, performance psychologists, and chefs.
The app will also host Happy Pear live events, workshops, and Q&As, and users can avail of hours of yoga, workouts, strength work, meditation, breath work and mindfulness sessions. There's also a community/tribe section, giving users a form to connect with others on the app.
"We have taken all our courses, hundreds of plant-based recipes, yoga, meditations, breath work, movement classes, and put them on one platform that you can access anytime, anywhere and at your own pace," said David Flynn, co-founder of The Happy Pear.
We have supplemented this with live sessions, webinars & events with the experts from our courses - doctors, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, dieticians, performance psychologists and so much more, to create a dynamic platform of active discussions and key notes from industry experts, all from within the app.”
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Steve Flynn, co-founder of The Happy Pear, added: "Most people know what they need to be doing to be healthy, but the main difference with The Healthy Living app is that we will be holding them to account as part of the regular daily and weekly check-ins so they are supported right the way through.”
Flynn & Flynn Global Trade Ltd, the family-owned parent of The Happy Pear lost more than €500,000 in 2020, the last year for which full accounts are available, and has reported total losses of €2.2m since commencing trade. The company had 97 employees, down from 119 a year prior.
Year-end creditors stood at €991,000, down from €2.3m in 2019, for net current assets of just over €1m, but money owed to creditors falling due after more than a year swelled from €404,000 to €4.5m year-on-year. The company booked deferred income of €4.4m
The company availed of both the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (€159,000) and the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (€79,000) during the first year of the pandemic, and the company directors were paid emoluments totalling €456,000, up from €334,000 in 2019.
The directors net loaned the company a further €145,692 with David and Stephen Flynn each lending €72,834.
The Happy Pear operates two cafés and retail stores in Greystones, Co Wicklow and sells its branded range of health food products there and at SuperValu and Centra store through its partnership with Musgrave. Its head office and production facilities are in nearby Kilcoole.
The Flynn brothers have become culinary celebrities through their advocacy for healthy living and a plant-based diet, and they have written several cookbooks in addition to hosting a podcast and lifestyle courses.
Photo: David and Stephen Flynn. (Pic: The Happy Pear)
