Harry Squires, behind Credible Clothing in Mansfield, speaks with your Chad about his growing business, five years after opening his first shop in town.
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00:00My name is Harry Squires. I'm the owner of Credible Clothing here in Mansfield.
00:05Yeah, we're a recycled sustainable vintage clothing store. We have premise in Mansfield
00:11and in Nottingham and in Hockley and now we've got a warehouse operation at Intake Business Centre.
00:18Tell me a bit about how you started and where.
00:21We started on Westgate. We opened our first store in 2020 now and within the first year we just
00:27needed a larger premise so we moved over to Leeming Street. We've been over there for about
00:33since April 2021 so it's been a fair few years now and I sold that business as a franchise
00:39so somebody's still running the company over there and we're just on to the next operation
00:43which is the warehouse so focusing on e-commerce and the social media side of things a lot more
00:48online. In the warehouse we've actually been here six months now so still a new venture
00:53with big plans to expand. Like I said we've took a five-year lease with a one-year
00:59clause so there's potential that within six months time we're probably going to be
01:03looking to expand some more so hopefully we'll see how the future goes and it's exciting times
01:08for the future. A lot of retro, don't get me wrong, obviously vintage is 20 years plus so
01:14I would say only 20-30% is actually vintage, majority is retro, some new but we target the
01:20younger student audience. I'd say that the brands that are really booming right now are the Carhartt,
01:24the Stussy, the Palace, you know the higher end sort of pieces but we also get a lot of Stone
01:29Island, CP Company, all them sort of brands. So currently we've got eight on the books,
01:34four full-time, four part-time, a lot of them focusing on e-commerce, we've got a couple of
01:39social media experts, some pickers and packers because we've got a really large operation on
01:45Whatnot so that's an online live auction selling platform that we're doing 750 orders daily
01:52so yeah it's quite a lot to keep on top of but yeah if you make sure you go and see us on
01:58Whatnot. Any future plans? Yes, yeah we're always looking to expand so actually on the 8th of April
02:05with me and three other staff we're going over to Pakistan to meet some contacts so I've been
02:10talking to them since 2021 and it's finally I'm at the position in business that we can actually
02:15expand, get new contacts and hopefully grow as a business so it's exciting times for the future.