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GOODBYE SOGGY SOAP

For 20 years Southlander Clare Wilson enjoyed a career in the museum sector.

However, some clever product ideas that had been “rattling around” in her head made her increasingly restless.

Inevitably something had to give, and when it did, she was already in her late 40s.

The idea was The Block Dock, a business and a brand behind a range of smartly functional soap holders and bathroom wall-mounted accessories that people around New Zealand and overseas are quickly falling in love with.

Clare explains that she also started her business because she wanted sovereignty over

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