{"id":422870,"date":"2026-04-29T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:58:18","slug":"katie-taylor-makes-first-venture-into-business-as-co-creator-of-fizzique-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422870\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor makes first venture into business as co-creator of Fizzique \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

World champion boxer Katie Taylor<\/a> has made her first venture into business as a co-creator of a new soda called Fizzique.<\/p>\n

Fizzique Drinks Ltd, which formally lodged papers with the Companies Registration Office in January, is a sister company of Irish wellness brand SiS\u00fa, which is a family business founded by Brian and Fiona McGann and now run by their daughter Aisling McGann.<\/p>\n

Taylor is a shareholder in Fizzique and Aisling and Brian McGann are listed as directors. <\/p>\n

SiS\u00fa makes plant-based milks, kombucha, cold-pressed juices, and functional shots, while Fizzique is described as a \u201cbetter-for-you alternative to traditional soft drinks\u201d that contains no sweeteners.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch in Dublin on Tuesday, Taylor said she had dinner with Aisling McGann last year having become aware of SiS\u00fa some years earlier. They plan to take the product global.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe characteristics that it takes to be a top athlete are some of the characteristics that make a top businessperson as well,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have to be willing to grind and hustle. You have to be able to pick yourself up after setbacks. You have to be unafraid of failure. You need to know the competition and be willing to go further and work harder. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a specific set of skills I don\u2019t have, and that\u2019s why you partner with people like Aisling and Brian, and people who are experts in their field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor said it was only after edging her third fight against Amanda Serrano in New York last July that she began to think about the next steps in her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only really since my last fight that I started thinking about retirement,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to be completely committed [when you go into the ring] with your heart, mind, and soul. Anything less is dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the last fight, it felt different. It felt like I was passing on the baton. I felt a sense of closure. I felt a sense of fullness of the journey. I\u2019ve been talking to SiS\u00fa and the guys for a few years now, but over the past few months especially.<\/p>\n

\u201cI happen to love fizzy drinks but I can\u2019t afford to be putting junk into my body. So the next level of ambition is to make soda that\u2019s not bad for you, and the next level after that is to make it genuinely good for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having been a full-time athlete for more than 20 years, Taylor said she has been approached by many brands in the health and wellness industry. \u201cVery rarely would I say yes because possible partnerships would take away a lot of my time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to ask yourself two guiding questions: what\u2019s the culture like and what\u2019s the vision like. I spent a bit of time with Aisling and Brian and I got a sense of their culture of honesty, their authenticity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s married with the excellence and the ambition they have. They want to be the disrupter in their own field, and those are principles I have carried very close to my heart over the past few years. This felt like a perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aisling McGann described Taylor\u2019s involvement as a partnership rather than a sponsorship, and said she was involved in the creation of the product.<\/p>\n

She said the product is \u201chigh in fibre, infused with magnesium and Vitamin D, made with juices and natural flavourings, low in sugar and low in calories\u201d. <\/p>\n

There are four flavours: zesty lemon and ginger; passion fruit and yuzu; watermelon, lime and mint; and blood orange and mango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champion boxer Katie Taylor has made her first venture into business as a co-creator of a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,10688],"class_list":{"0":"post-422870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katie-taylor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}