BARKER AND QUIN

HANNELI VAN DER MERWE & CHRIS WIUM

Start-up costs: ‘It’s difficult to give a figure as we’re constantly putting money into the company,’ says Hanneli. ‘We pretty much used all our savings; I used my pension fund build-up and Chris cashed in his shares.’ Turnover: ‘We sold almost 500000 units in the first 12 months and our growth is about 230% per annum.’