In For A Pound - My Journey From a Market-Stall to Three Hundred High Street Stores

Biography & Memoir, Business, Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Planning & Forecasting
Cover of the book In For A Pound - My Journey From a Market-Stall to Three Hundred High Street Stores by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred, John Blake Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred ISBN: 9781786060426
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Publication: December 3, 2015
Imprint: John Blake Language: English
Author: Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
ISBN: 9781786060426
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Publication: December 3, 2015
Imprint: John Blake
Language: English

Chris Edwards has gone from running a stall on Wakefield market 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 ?150million, 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Chris Edwards has gone from running a stall on Wakefield market 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 ?150million, 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.

More books from John Blake Publishing

Cover of the book Billy Hill: Godfather of London - The Unparalleled Saga of Britain's Most Powerful Post-War Crime Boss by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book The Inbetweeners - Moving On - The Unofficial Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Inbetweeners Gang by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Jessie Wallace by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Best, Pele and a Half-Time Bovril: A Nostalgic Look at the 1970s - Football's Last Great Decade by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book The Secret Diary of Prince George, Aged 3.5 months by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Coming Clean - Living with OCD by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book To Cap It All by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Kristina Rihanoff: Dancing Out of Darkness - My Story by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Danny O'Donoghue - The Biography by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Jack Nicholson - The Biography by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Running Crazy - Imagine Running a Marathon. Now Imagine Running Over 100 of Them. by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Deadly Divorces by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Caught Out by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Malcolm McLaren - The Biography: The Sex Pistols, the anarchy, the art, the genius - the whole amazing legacy by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
Cover of the book Freddie Foreman - The Godfather of British Crime by Chris Edwards, Stafford Hildred
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy