Want to Create Your Own Beverage Business? Visit Forest Innovation Center at IIOutfest 2022

JAKARTA, NETRALNEWS.COM - Are you tired of working at the office? Or are you looking for activities for parents who are about to retire? Don\'t fret, just try to open a business through beverage business!

If interested, you can join the training at the Forest Innovation Center in Jakarta. Forest apparently is not only a producer of powder and syrup for drinks, but has developed into a training and coaching center for those who want to start a beverage business.

"The Forest logo is like a leaf, like a forest with lots of leaves, we want Forest to be a source of life for employees and the community and beverage business players. The logo is also like embracing, so we embrace all \'players\' in the beverage business, from upstream to downstream," said CEO and Co-Founder of Forest, Muadzin F. Jihad, on Saturday (08/06/2022).

This statement was conveyed by Muadzin to Netralnews on the sidelines of the Indonesia International Outdoor Festival (IIOutfest). The is held at the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) area in Senayan, Jakarta on August 4-7, 2022.

Muadzin further explained that at the Forest Innovation Center there is also a bar and podcast studio to provide education and training to customers. Among them is education on how to open a business, calculate initial capital, discuss menus, ingredients, and how to make drinks. "There is training at our place," Muadzin said.

If interested, you can visit Forest\'s social media and register for the training. Forest has even collaborated with institutions and employees of prospective retirees from a well-known company. The training is carried out so that employees are ready to retire and can open a profitable beverage business.

According to Muadzin, the emergence of coffee, boba bubbles, and other beverage businesses is not a barrier to building a business in the beverage sector. If there is competition, it is a sign that the business in the beverage world continues to grow.

"Every year, the Food and Beverage (F&B) business increases by five percent, even when the pandemic continues to grow. The latest data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2018 showed that around IDR 200 trillion was generated from the food and beverage business. Around 20 percent of it or IDR 40 trillion were in potentials. Now it means even more," explained Muadzin.

Moreover, we know that food and drink are basic human needs. Everyone who eats also definitely needs a drink. Many unicorns have also emerged from the F&B world. "So the potential [from beverage business] is very significant," he continued.

For Muadzin, beverages can also be a promising business for all people. The reason is that the capital is not large, starting is easy, and menu preparation is also not difficult. Even if you don\'t make a profit, the loss is also low.

"If you are interested, you can study at the Forest Innovation Center. The training is enough for a day, about 4-5 hours. We collaborate with several resource persons, institutions, and not only discuss beverages, but also finance, marketing, selling, so we prepare all areas of business," he added.