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when it comes to a project. Over the has adapted and
a garden shop when Dale’s sister Kirsti, joined the company
years the business changed, including the opening of ,
r, y. “We had
one in peak season – the gar eally complemented
and tool parts r .”
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later ceased, along with the hire focus solely on r
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operation, with plans instead to etailing tools and
developing an online business. affair
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And it is still very much a family r, with Kirsti still involved in the company in the role of property “We have worked
together all these years,” says Dale. “It shouldn’t work because we e ar
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to take the huge the business to premises on an in the outskirts of th just a mile away site – which was it came to mov
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tool specialist, Epic Tools has moved to brand new premises this month doubling its footprint – as owner Dale Mickleburgh with even grea
burgh follows his vision to ater potential online.
Dale – meaning it is still relatively local for its loyal customer base, the move was a huge decision for Epic Tools and took a lot of hard work and planning to execute smoothly
p y.. most demanding things you
as a business,” Dale explains. “You and also make sure that you ar
still need to feed the online business e
meeting demand from customers coming into your existing shop. We
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any of our r was a very challenging transition. I ont
think we had to close our store fr for 10 days in total, which isn’t bad. I had a list of certain things that had t
to get done each day in or achieve our goal and it seemed to work because it all went to plan.” He continues: “As soon as I had unning
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