Somerset shop IM Tools marks exactly one year of trading today, and business has been so good that expansion to bigger premises is now on the cards.
Ian Everett-Giles opened his power tools store in Burnham-on-Sea on November 3 last year, and he told diyweek.net that the 12 months had "flown by. At the beginning it was quietish while I was building up my clientele, but I'm getting more and more regulars in and people from further afield now, probably a 30-mile radius, and they're recommending me to their friends as well."

He said sales had been "way above what I anticipated, I'd say double. When I started out I put certain stuff in that I knew would sell but I've now outgrown the main shop. The stock's easily doubled by people saying, can you get this in, and all the profit I make goes straight back into the business."

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