Businessman 'started company in a garden shed'

12:06:20 16th June 2010

A North Wales businessman who has created a multi-million pound company has revealed he and his wife started the firm in their garden shed.

John Dale told the Daily Post that he began selling home-made nappy liners around markets in Flint and his organisation, called John Dale Ltd, turned over £6.5m last year.

The pair originally began buying polythene bags on credit and selling them on markets in a bid to generate a small profit.

They then moved on to some special paper which they found to be highly absorbent and started using it in the nappy liners.

Mrs Dale told the newspaper that the pair have come a long way since their humble beginnings.

"We started in the shed in the garden with a guillotine and a Stanley knife and then we moved onto an old farm building before we went into the old Courtaulds building in Flint," she added.

Lyme Regis entrepreneur Mark Jenkin recently applied for planning permission to turn his garden shed into a microbrewery business, the Bridport News recently reported.