Jon Bussell had spent years running a charcuterie business, making terrines, pâté, black pudding, everything from scratch, but eventually the grind caught up with him.
The craft was there, but the joy was fading. Then he looked at the zucchini pickles they'd always made to go alongside the meats, noticed how much people loved them, and had though: why not just make killer pickles?
That clarity turned into ACIDE™. What began as backyard batches - hand-sliced on a mandoline, salted into Cambros - has scaled to 500kg a week.
ACIDE™ made the deliberate choice to self-distribute, wanting to stay close to stockists and control how the product reached people. As order volumes grew, that hands-on approach needed structure behind it.
"We needed a better way to take and manage orders without spending every night replying to texts or chasing payments," says Jon. Ordermentum gave them that, and with it, the headspace to focus on the product and the people making it.
We spoke with Jon about how Ordermentum is supporting ACIDE’s growth journey.