Boss Hunting - “My Little Pub: The Kiwi Start Up That’ll Custom Build An Irish Pub For Your Backyard”

“Having your very own pub, custom built especially for you, in your backyard sounds like a dream. And before COVID-19 it would have had to stay that way. Enter My Little Pub, spearheaded by a bunch of Kiwi blokes and led by an award-winning designer and master joiner, with designs to build tiny 3m x 4m mini Irish pubs for anyone with the dosh and a dream.

Founder Steve Rosling, who’s designed plenty of Irish and English style pubs over the years, built My Little Pub’s first product – T. O’Loughlin’s, for co-founder Gary Altenburg’s father-in-law, Terry – after some COVID-induced soul-searching.

According to NewsHub, Rosling was worried about his future career prospects as a commercial interior designer during the COVID-19 lockdown, leading him to the idea of bringing a ‘local pub’ even closer for people. Hence, O’Loughlin’s was born, named for Altenburg’s father-in-law, pre-fabricated, and shipped just before Christmas to his backyard in the semi-rural New Zealand town of Spencerville, just north of Christchurch.”

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