Consumer Products Company

Cuentacuentos

24%

Funding Goal $1,070,000
Funding Raised So Far $257,229
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining $812,771
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

Company Overview


We promote and distribute traditional mezcal by bringing numerous small, family mezcal producers together under one brand. Cuentacuentos has placements in some of the nation’s finest retailers, restaurants, and bars.

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We promote and distribute small-batch traditional mezcal by uniting numerous small, family producers under one brand. Since launching in the US in late 2018, Cuentacuentos, which has a portfolio of over two dozen core and revolving types of traditional mezcal, is available in some of the United States’ and Australia’s finest retailers, restaurants, and bars.

Mezcal has been made in small batches by family producers in Mexico for over 400 years using environmentally sustainable production methods.

Our company has developed a platform to allow mezcal lovers around the world access to these superb and authentic mezcals while still maintaining the traditional production methods.

We are able to meet the demand for excellent quality products by adding new family producers and lending to them so that they can grow at their own pace. Moreover, we buy their products at a fair price. In fact, we let the producers themselves set their own prices and help them understand the resulting consumer feedback.

In short, we select the mezcal we sell for quality, but we do our best to stay out of the way of tradition. When we started this journey, we were convinced that people who love agave distillates will pay for quality and authenticity. So far, we have been proven correct in our assumption.

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Business Summary


Company Age 8 years, 4 months
Employees 6
Sub-Industry Beverages
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Products/Services


Agave Spirits

We curate, bottle, market, and sell Mexican agave distillates, known colloquially as mezcal. For the uninitiated, Tequila is a subtype of mezcal. We also have a rum product. The products are premium, positioned at the top of the market, to appeal to the aficionado and collector. We do have products priced at all levels, including an entry level product designed to appeal to bars for their well.

Management


Donald Read Spear
President Executive Officer
Donald R......

Founder and owner, R...... ’s entire professional career has been in regulated, consumable products requiring a high level of internal company organization. From 1997 to 2004 he was one-third owner and COO of an online dietary supplements company, which sold in late 2004 fro $4.1M. Following the sale of that company, Mr. traveled around the world, ending his two-year trip in the fall of 2006 in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he had his first experience with traditional mezcal.

From 2008 to 2020, Mr. worked in various enterprises within the burgeoning medical and adult use cannabis arenas. Following the sale of his dispensary and cultivation operation in Lyons, CO in 2013, as RS Consulting, Inc, Mr. began doing business consulting work with private investment groups seeking licensure in states around the US as those states added legal cannabis programs.

Mr. earned his BA in Philosophy at Penn State in 1992, and his MA in Philosophy at Duquesne University in 1994.

Steven Adelkoff
Director Counsel/Legal Officer
Steven A......

For over three decades, Steven A...... has worked in all aspects of the structured finance, alternative investment, off shore private wealth, securities and capital markets industries.

After spending the first 20 years of his career for the global law firm K&L Gates, Mr. A...... helped run diverse businesses from Shariah compliant hedge funds to an international developer of power projects. Today, he acts as the Chief Compliance and Legal Officer for Fairwinds International Bank, LLC (located in Puerto Rico), manages all investment activities for a family office and is an active private equity investor.

Mr. A...... earned his JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (where he graduated Magna Cum Laude), his MBA from Cornell University, and his BA from Rutgers University. A Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Mr. A...... also holds the Series 7, Series 63 and Series 24 broker dealer licenses. He is also a certified anti-money laundering specialist.

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