How 11 year old Mikaila got $11million deal to sell her lemonade sweetened with honey

Mikaila Ulmer is an 11 year old Texas girl who got $60,000  on the hit TV show “Shark Tank” last year.

Now the products from  her lemonade making company, Beesweet Lemonade are flying off the
shelves of top retail stores and this little girl is giving talks at top conferences and summits alongside adult business men and women. She has also served her Lemonade to Barack Obama!

When she was four years old, she was stung by two bees in one week. She was terrified of bees but her mother, D’Andra, turned the experience into an insect research assignment where Mikaila learned more about bees.

She later decided to make lemonades that will be and sweetened with honey instead of sugar to save the bees from extinction and support beekeepers.

She has just scored a sweet $11 million deal with Whole Foods to sell her brand of lemonade which means BeeSweet Lemonade will be carried by 55 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Here are 5 things you should know about the little genius:

1. She won $60,000 at the tender age of 10 on the show, Shark Tank

2. The original recipe for Beesweet Lemonade was made from her grandmother’s recipe for flaxseed lemonade and sweetened with honey

3. The flavors have now expanded to 4 other flavours – BeeSweet Lemonade , Original Mint, BeeSweet Lemonade with Ginger. BeeSweet Lemonade with Iced Tea and BeeSweet Lemonade with Prickly Pear

4. She has also secured a distribution deal with United Natural Foods.

5. Mikaila donates a portion of the lemonade’s profits to organizations that work to save honeybees.

6. Let’s not forget she began Beesweet Lemonade because she wanted to save the bees.





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