Tea Area High School graduate, Taylor Ernster, starts business from vanilla-making hobby
Taylor Ernster turned a hobby into a business so successful it was one of 10 South Dakota companies to make the Inc. 5000 list of fastestgrowing private companies in the U.S. in 2022. “We never in a million years thought we’d be building a brand versus just selling something,” he says. “Now, we’re thinking about the next five or 10 years.” Vanilla Bean Kings started in the basement of Taylor’s home almost a decade ago. Today it distributes premium vanilla and other similar products from its faci
Source: teaweekly.com
