A SUCCESSFUL business which impressed Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis has made the move from the online world to a shop.
Wimborne town crier Chris Brown delivered a specially written cry to officially open Kyleigh’s Papercuts in Mill Lane.
Run by business partners Kyleigh Orlebar and Amanda Brown, the shop marks a new departure for the owners.
Kyleigh started the business four years ago from a garden studio, turning text such as famous quotes and song lyrics into decorated hand-cut words or limited edition laser cuts.
She found success through online retailer notonthehighs treet.com and her personalised paper cut family trees were featured on the retailer’s prime time TV campaign last Christmas. She also won Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis’s weekly Small Business Sunday contest.
Amanda Brown joined as co-director earlier this year, with orders flooding in, and they began looking for bigger premises.
She said: “We weren’t necessarily looking for a shop, the workshop space in Mill Lane was perfect, and the fact it came with a small but perfectly formed shop attached was the icing on the cake.”
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