HIS paving stone business may have finally expired after an arson attack, but Simon Gordon’s new mobile bar business is booming with clients including the BBC.
Simon dreamed up Celtic Sprit as a way of keeping his staff usefully occupied until his factory, Gordonstone Paving Slabs, in Huntington, got up and running again.
But diversification has proved such a roaring success, he has now decided to close the paving business and refocus his efforts on the mobile bar.
“We are doing really well,” said Mr Gordon, who runs the bar with his wife, Barbara, and daughter, Katy.
“We already do lots of private weddings and parties, and now we’re breaking into the corporate market too. We’ve just been down to Battersea Park in London to do a function for the BBC – that was definitely the most high-profile event we’ve done and it was a big success.
“Someone from the BBC had attended a wedding in North Yorkshire where we had a bar and had checked out our website afterwards and asked us to travel to London.
“It was really good fun. We built a special illuminating bar for the occasion and they were really impressed.”
Mr Gordon, who recently moved from York to Malton, said: “The BBC events organiser said she would definitely be using us again and will recommend us to other BBC departments as well.
“The events manager at Battersea Park also said she hoped to use us for the July 4 celebrations for American expats in London next year, which would be brilliant.”
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