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Charlie Mullins: Growing & Selling Pimlico Plumbers For £145 Million & Now Setting Up We Fix London

Summary

Meet Charlie Mullins OBE, the world's wealthiest and most famous plumber.
The council-estate kid who left school at 15 and went on to build a plumbing empire consisting of:

450 employees
230 vans
£50M turnover

In this episode, Charlie opens up and shares his knowledge on how he built “Pimlico Plumbers” then sold it for £145 million and he's now doing the same with his new business “We Fix London”
He pulls back the curtain on branding, marketing, building a team, culture, what he got right, what nearly broke him and the realities of rapid growth.

Key Learning and actions from this episode

  • Discover how important branding and pulling PR stunts is to your brand awareness
  • How and why he came up with the famous Pimlico Bible that helped grow his team
  • Why standards and value are the most important areas of business to focus on
  • How his son negotiated the deal to sell Pimlico Plumbers for £145 million
  • Discover how We Fix London has scaled to nearly £3 million in turnover in 12 months

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