How have young business people found the comeback from coronavirus lockdowns?
The three young business owners say the frustrations of lockdown became opportunities
"As a teenager, I would look at inspiring accounts on Instagram from florists all across the world and I just thought 'I'd really love to do that in Leicester'." "But, having worked in the business, I knew the suppliers, I knew the mark-up and I have always been really careful with money. I did it all on a really tight budget. I had a really small shop and just built it up.""I was still able to get plants from my suppliers," she says. "I just put on Instagram 'Does anyone want a plant delivery?' because I could do doorstep deliveries.
"At first, lockdown was very scary but I think that pressure brought the best out of us as a business." "That led to us working with the British Army on training videos. We have also worked with Gameloft, one of the biggest mobile phone game developers, doing videos with YouTubers. He and his brother had saved a few thousand pounds between them and used it to rent a small shop, seven years ago."The first store was built out of upcycled pallets from the local factories," Omar says. "Everything we did was funded from savings or reinvestment from the business."
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