How the Grizly nut e-shop manages production, sales, external collaboration, and marketing using Freelo

Published: 13. May 2022

From a childhood bedroom to large production halls with hundreds of employees and annual revenue of half a billion CZK. This is the story of Dominik Píchal andhis e-shop Grizly.czwhere fans of quality healthy food, nuts, dried fruit and other treats will find something to love. He and his team joined Freelo at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to this day, he manages several departments there.

We aim to triple our revenue within three years

Back in 2014, Dominik Píchal was packing and shipping one order a week from his parents' nursery and sauna. Eight years later, together with a team of more than 100 people, he runs his own production, packing and e-shop in large halls , expands abroad, picks up 7,500 orders a week and plans to triple the current turnover in the next 3 years. The success of the Olomouc e-shop Grizly.cz was underlined by the Quality Award in the Food and Beverages category in the Heureka ShopRoku 2021 competition.

We couldn't function with coloured sticky notes on the monitors anymore

A big challenge for the Grizly team recently has been the increase in turnover and the transition from a small family business with two people making decisions to a large organisation with a broad management team. This entails the division of responsibilities and tasks within the larger team. In order for all members to work together effectively, they boarded Freelo.

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10 reasons why Grizly.cz chose Freelo to manage their projects

• An excellent, easy-to-use collaboration platform,
• quick and easy implementation,
• in Czech,
• available as desktop and mobile apps,
• quickly onboard the team,
• all tasks in one place,
• create new tasks straight from email.
• create step-by-step guides and procedures that everyone can access,
• easily assign responsibilities to your teammates,
• prioritising tasks and organizing them by sorting and moving between To-Do lists.

Grizly.cz has successfully completed over 3,000 tasks in 50 projects so far.

Freelo serves as an idea hub and a communication tool for working with external partners

The Grizly team uses Freelo to manage both long- and short-term projects across departments. It helps them store new ideas, share trends, and keep track of information that shouldn't get lost over time.

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To wrap up, a practical tip from Grizly.cz

Use the option to create new tasks directly from email – it helps streamline communication and encourages your teammates to work in Freelo instead.