Bootstrapped to £25M: The Incredible Growth of a Candle Business (4k)

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This week, James and JB sit down with the founder of a £25M candle business that started at just £500k only 5 years ago and grew entirely bootstrapped. No banks, no investors, fascinating story.They’ll explore how he scaled so far without funding, the challenges of cashflow at that level, and what comes next for such an interesting business.

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Welcome to the Business Broadcast Podcast! Each week James brings on the show an entrepreneur who shares their biggest challenges and struggles in business. James coaches the business owner through these challenges by asking those hard hitting questions in order to get to the bottom of these problems and help the business owner soar to success.

Who am I?

My name is James Sinclair and I'm the founder and CEO of The Fabadousa Group of Companies. I started building my business when I was just 16 as a family entertainer after that I built up an entertainment agency, then moved into building a leisure and day nursery businesses. Today we operate a £50 million business which includes leisure, childcare, outdoor attractions, commercial property, arts and crafts manufacturing as well as one of the UK’s oldest Ice cream companies; The Rossi Ice Cream Company.