WORCESTER, Mass.—Nassim Aoude and Michael Melkonian are the young founders of PunchPops, a new Worcester-based company breaking into the American alcohol industry with a 21-plus twist on a summertime favorite.
The idea for marketing wine-infused popsicles emerged the summer of 2017, after Melkonian and Aoude spent a long weekend with friends at Ogunquit Beach. “We had been drinking and playing spikeball all day at the beach,” recalls Melkonian. “We brought regular non-alcoholic [popsicles] with us in a cooler along with our booze. One of our friends asked for a drink from the cooler, and it turned out that we had ran out of cups. With a [popsicle] in his hand, he suggested to just pour the alcohol into the sleeve.” Enter: PunchPops.
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Great story…a perfect item for a “Shark Tank” episode. Going to FL in April, will definitely look for PunchPops in store. Can’t wait to try it. Great idea, guys! Wish you much luck with your business venture. We need to encourage more entrepreneurs to get out there and launch their business.
Thank you, Diana! We have a store locator on our website https://www.drinkpunchpops.com/locations/ Hopefully you will be close to a store that stocks PunchPops. Let us know what you think! -Nassim