Bed firm has £1m target

A 21-YEAR-old Fife entrepreneur who has developed his own range of beds is targeting turnover of £1 million.

George Sinclair’s business evolved from sports supplements, phone cases and selling on furniture bought at auction, to developing his own brand of beds.

By the age of 15, he had built up enough money to rent a warehouse and signed a deal to take on discontinued bed stock, which arrived each week.

With the possibility of having no storage space for the next batch if he did not sell the existing stock, Mr Sinclair came up with the idea of a clearance sale.

He said: “I didn’t know what to expect, but people were actually fighting over mattresses and we had sold out by mid-afternoon.

“I wanted to move away from selling discounted brands and start selling sleep, so I looked into developing my own brand.

“I had been trading as the Fife Bed Warehouse, but with plans to expand, I changed to a non-geographical name, Nimbus Beds.

“Last year, we stopped selling brands altogether and focused solely on developing our Nimbus products and we have become busier and busier.”

The Thornton-based firm now has five members of staff and is on course to have sales of more than £700,000 this year with a £1m target next year.

A DUNDEE woman and her family hope to have raised more than £600 after completing a sponsored walk in memory of her uncle.

Jill Saigeon completed the walk across the Tay Road Bridge on October 17 to raise money for the cancer charity Maggie’s, who helped care for her uncle James ‘Jimi’ Dillon before he passed away earlier this year.

The 33-year-old said: “We wanted to say thanks to the Maggie’s Centre. We all set off about 1pm on the day and the kids ran ahead of us.

“Jimi would have loved to have been part of it

POLICE have sealed off a property after a pregnant wom a n wa s se r iou sly injured in an incident on the Hilltown.

As many as nine police vehicles were at Tulloch Court at around 10pm yesterday.

It is understood revellers from a Halloween party from a neighbouring block had been involved in a disturbance outside.

A struggle then ensued near the top of the multistorey in Tulloch Court.

Two police vehicles remained outside the tower block as commuters made their way to work this morning.

One resident this morning said a stairwell has been closed off by the police because of blood and hair on the landing.

He added:“There were police all over Tulloch Court.

“It was shortly after 10pm, I had no real idea of what was happening.

“Given the police presence, I knew it was something serious.

“There were at least a dozen police including CID and an ambulance crew on site.”

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