Nick Brown
Crane Brothers has dressed Nick Brown for nearly a decade now. As the brains behind Huffman’s Hot Sauce, Nick has watched his company grow from a cottage industry to an internationally recognised and distributed brand. Ben St George sat down with Nick to talk about his experiences growing a business in the Australasian market, his next venture, the ambitious Cook & Nelson project at Auckland’s City Works Depot, and condiments of all kinds.

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