The Entrepreneur Podcast · Eric Janssen and Eric Morse

61. Everyone's Nuts for Cheese with Margaret Coons

·59 min·5 clips
Her vegan cheese sold out by 1 PM on the first day, proving a hungry market existed.
Margaret Coons, founder of Nuts for Cheese, shares her journey from a vegan chef at farmers markets to leading Canada's top plant-based cheese company, now the second best-selling in the US. She discusses overcoming regulatory challenges, bootstrapping growth, and expanding into all 50 states while maintaining her passion for innovation.

As heard by us

A founder story about turning a niche vegan product into a retail business.

The Entrepreneur Podcast treats Margaret Koons's Nuts for Cheese story as a straightforward founder profile: a vegetarian spark at 12, a launch after Western, market stalls, then a manufacturing business that grew into Canada's leading artisan, organic, plant-based dairy company…

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

A vegan-cheese founder story that moves from farmers' markets to grocery shelves across America.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →
Listen to the show on