Couple's grit, creativity leads to tasty company

Angie and Dan Bastian's secret sauce for a thriving business — and lucrative exit — lies in a underutilized principle: Go forward, with gusto, but without all the answers.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 13, 2020
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Mark Wemple. Angie and Dan Bastian, part-time Siesta Key residents, built Angie’s Boomchickapop into a $90 million snack business. They sold it in 2017 to Conagra Brands.
Mark Wemple. Angie and Dan Bastian, part-time Siesta Key residents, built Angie’s Boomchickapop into a $90 million snack business. They sold it in 2017 to Conagra Brands.
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Angie Bastian first tried kettle corn, she recalls, when her kids were little and she and her husband, Dan, took them to festivals at Hunsader Farms, east of Interstate 75 in Manatee County.

 

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