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In for a Pound - My Journey from a Market Stall to Three Hundred High Street Stores (Hardcover)
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In for a Pound - My Journey from a Market Stall to Three Hundred High Street Stores (Hardcover)
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Chris Edwards has gone from running a stall in the Wakefield
markets to masterminding a single-price shopping chain with more
than 300 stores across the United Kingdom. The remarkable retail
rise to fame of his Poundworld business was fascinatingly featured
in 2015's highly-rated BBC1 series, Pound Shop Wars - and while
Chris opened up about his astonishing success story to the cameras,
it was his eighty-eight-year-old mum Alice who truly became a cult
figure. 'I've always been driven by the fear of ending up skint!'
says Chris, who admits he once risked losing not only his own home,
but also the houses of both his brother and business partner Laurie
and of his own mum and dad on a single risky deal. Now, his frank
and inspiring autobiography reveals the rise and rise of the
businessman from hard-working one-man band with just a single van
to high street tycoon with a fleet of huge lorries and more than
6,000 employees. And somehow along the way the sixty-five-year-old
Yorkshireman also built a thriving nightclub business with no fewer
than nine venues. In 2015, Chris sold 75 per cent of Poundworld to
American venture capitalists TPG for GBP150million, but he is still
in control and determined to drive Poundworld to new heights. This
is the truly inspiring story of one man's rise to the very top.
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