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Chapter 1
Sunspel
Founded in 1860, Sunspel was a supplier of high-quality underwear to the British empire but it fell into a state of disrepair in its later years – that is, until Nicholas Brooke and his business partner Dominic Hazlehurst acquired it. The challenge was to fix the factory, boost the finances, design new products, reinvent the brand and bring it into the 21st century. Easier said than done.
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Chapter 2
The value of independents
London’s Spitalfields is packed with independent businesses such as Gardners, the neighbourhood’s oldest traditional family firm. Fourth-generation Paul Gardner has been the market sundriesman at 149 Commercial Street since the 1960s and he’s also one of the elder statesmen of the East End Trades Guild, a community of east London’s small independent businesses founded by Krissie Nicolson in 2012. Krissie and Paul share stories about supporting small independent businesses.
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