Randall hires a long time employee (and friend) from his previous company to assist in the day to day business who eventually helps Randall design hundreds of additional products.
Q-Direct stalls on the project and while at QVC preparing Cathy for an airing, Randall meets 2 people from Richard Simmons licensor Good Times Entertainment (GTE) the company years earlier that Chris had try to contact.
After helping them make their way around the QVC kitchen the GTE people become interested in Turbo. After witnessing the Turbo selling out GTE convinces the partners to come to NY.
Within a few months a contract is signed. Filming and test marketing completed by December 1999 the test is a huge success. Inventory ordered, the rollout starts January 2000.
GTE sells nearly 1.7 million Turbo Cooker’s ® before going out of business.
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