Lockdown was a tough time for most small businesses, but the unprecedented times helped one man get his enterprise off the ground.
Shane Cameron left the armed forces in order to start Mean Bean Coffee Company in 2019. He explained: "When we were out on deployment, you could never get a nice coffee, it was always just instant stuff."
This was his motivation for starting the Newcastle-based business, which he originally struggled to get going. "I was at a Metro station to begin with but it wasn't very successful."
