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Charlie Mullins

By Real Business in association with Orange Business Services, published 1 year ago in Archive.

Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, on how to achieve a £15m-turnover business.

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"I'm very fussy about who I employ. I want top plumbers, not layabouts. Let's face it: no one wants a sloppy bastard with his arse hanging out his pants wandering around their house." Charlie Mullins, the founder of £15m-turnover Pimlico Plumbers, talks about builders' bums, female plumbers and unblocking Gordon Ramsay's drains.

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