$5 Million A Year, Selling ‘Ice Towels’
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work:
There’s nothing like a hot product or, in this case, a cold product with hot sales.
Just ask Mike Fanning and Bill Sammon, founders of the Hima Ice Towel Corp., which sells prepackaged cotton towels soaked with refreshing mixtures of essential plant oils that promote evaporation and cooling.
Sammon got the idea after a trip to Asia, where he noticed mothers wiping down their babies with towels dipped in isopropyl alcohol to cool them off.
Fanning and Sammon market the towels, which need to be frozen for 12 hours prior to use, to amusement parks and sporting events. The towels sell from $1.29 to $4 each, depending on the venue. The pair also markets to corporate clients.
Now that sales are expected to hit $3.5 million to $5 million, it’s clear these entrepreneurs have cornered the market on cold relief.
Photo by Malingering.
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