Is Cocofina Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Cocofina on AmazonFull story →Jacob Thundil brought a range of coconut oils, milks, sugars and snacks into series 14, episode 5, a business that had already been trading since 2004, long before coconut became a mainstream health food ingredient.
It is still operating, and the television appearance reads more like one stage in a longer growth story than the beginning of one.
A rare thing in the Den: real trading history
Thundil wanted £75,000 for a fifth of the business, and by most accounts every Dragon at the table showed interest before Nick Jenkins and Sarah Willingham jointly agreed to fund it.
Backing a company already twelve years into trading is a different kind of bet than the usual early-stage punt. There was real revenue on the table rather than a forecast, and over a decade of direct relationships with growers gave it a supply chain that a business only a year or two old has no way to replicate.
How a niche ingredient became a category
Coconut products moved from a specialist health food shelf to something supermarkets stock as standard over the past two decades, riding the same wave that lifted plant-based and free-from foods generally, and Cocofina's head start let it grow alongside that shift rather than chase it from behind.
The brand has also resisted the pull to chase every passing wellness fad, keeping its whole catalogue, oils, milks, sugars and snacks, tied to the one ingredient it built its name on.
The scale today
Cocofina describes its range as UK Soil Association approved and sold into roughly 28 countries, a level of regulatory and export complexity that takes years to build and tends to filter out weaker operators along the way.
Staying known specifically as a coconut brand, instead of stretching into a catch-all wellness label, has kept its identity clear on a free-from shelf where a lot of competitors start to look interchangeable.