The Big Call
Can just one phone call change your life forever? Successful entrepreneurs Jo Malone MBE, Charlie Mullins and Mark Denton would say so. Watch their inspirational stories and see why we’re encouraging startups and small businesses to make sure they are ready for their big call.
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Charlie Mullins – Founder, Pimlico Plumbers
Charlie Mullins is the archetypal entrepreneur having started his business from scratch and built it into a multi-million pound enterprise. From humble beginnings growing up on an estate in South London, Charlie left school with no qualifications but after a four-year plumbing apprenticeship he started out on his own.
The call that changed his life gave him his first office and inadvertently his company name, Pimlico Plumbers. 20 years on the business has 220 staff, 160 vans and a turnover in excess of £20 million.
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Mark Denton – Founder, COY! Communications
Mark Denton is one of the most respected commercial directors in the world. He has been a partner of a famous advertising agency, the owner of a design company, launched numerous magazines and put on the UK’s first ever World Championship Mexican Wrestling event – picking up over 470 awards along the way.
Mark reveals how his local clairvoyant predicted his entrepreneurial path and how he waited two years for the call that put his name on the door of the hottest agency in town.
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Jo Malone MBE – Founder, Jo Loves
Despite being severely dyslexic, Jo Malone built the brand carrying her name from a kitchen table business to one of the world’s most famous fragrance empires in the world. She discovered her gift for scent as a 16 year-old working in a florist and was later awarded an MBE for her services to the beauty industry.
Jo talks about the call that kick-started her second fragrance business JO LOVES and brought her life full-circle back to the steps of the flower shop she first worked at as a teenager.
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