The Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Apprentice winner’s business hits milestone

- Paul Grinnell paul.grinnell@nationalwo­rld.com @PTPaulGrin­nell www.peterborou­ghtoday.co.uk/business

Peterborou­gh’s The Apprentice winner has hosted a golden celebratio­n for his Trade Mastermind staff to mark a milestone for the business.

Entreprene­ur Joseph Valente, who founded Trade Mastermind just over three and a half years ago, put on champagne and cake and a golden confetti celebratio­n for the 40 employees.

It was a thank you for their work that saw the business hit its first one million pound monthly revenue mark in April. Trade Mastermind, based at the Brightfiel­d Business Hub, in Orton Southgate, seeks to help sole traders and small businesses in the constructi­on sector to achieve fast and remarkable growth.

Mr Valente, who won the BBC reality show in 2015, said: “This is really special for us as we’ve hit our first one million pound in revenue month.

“That’s a real credit to my team who do a fantastic job and work incredibly hard.

“It goes to show how effective our business is at solving the problems for the tradespeop­le and the business owners who we teach to scale up and grow.

“And if it wasn’t for our customers we wouldn’t be in this position right now, so I’m grateful to them too.

He added: “But this business has only just been establishe­d for just over three and a half years, and I’m proud that we have been able to pioneer a sector in training and developmen­t.

“Trade Mastermind is flying the flag to help level up these small businesses, giving them the skills they need to go from technician to businessme­n.”

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 ?? ?? Joseph Valente, centre, with staff at Trade Mastermind in Peterborou­gh celebratin­g a first £1m sales month
Joseph Valente, centre, with staff at Trade Mastermind in Peterborou­gh celebratin­g a first £1m sales month

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