Entrepreneurs
GLOUCESTERSHIRE'S
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Miles Dunkley
SLG Cheltenham Mr Dunkley took
on the family firm set up in 1985 by his parents, Graham and Bobbie Dunkley, making specialist cosmetics applicators, such as make-up sponges.When he left life working at creative agencies in London, the business had a turnover of £700,000. But it has been doubling in size every five years for the last 20 and is now in excess of £50 million. Clients include Zoella, Superdry and Laura Ashley.Who could have missed the opening of its new office space in Cheltenham’s Brewery Quarter? l
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Joshua Taee Huffkins Stow on theWold Second generation
to the helm of what is a family business which started as a tea- rooms and bakery and has grown considerably. Realising the need for change on a difficult high street, Huffkins managed to sell its very identity – of a quintessentially English tea rooms – not just to the ever thirsty sweet-toothed British public, but to a British-loving Japanese market. Not to mention strike a deal with John Lewis to run its in-house Cheltenham café l
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