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Former Apprentice star aims for £250k turnover in first year of trading

Former Apprentice star Neil Clough spoke exclusively to Bdaily about his post Apprentice venture, recruitment and training company, Prime.

Fired in the final of The Apprentice in season 9, Neil learned that it is best to stick to what you know and with that in mind he set up his latest business.

Realising his strengths lay in sales he surrounded himself with business partners including Nicole Plinston who he merged his business with to create a new company.

Manchester-based Prime launched in October 2014 and has so far exceeded its planned profit for its first three months of trading.

The company has had several contract wins becoming the preferred supplier for a number of big companies.

Prime currently employs 5 people, recruiting a 6th person in the coming months with the aim of recruiting a new person every 3 months as they expand.

Neil told Bdaily, “Our five year vision is to be the first choice across the country for sales recruitment and training.

“We are quite unique, we offer free training days to candidates and invite clients to attend so that they can see people develop, it’s very different to our competitors who run assessment days.

“One of our values is ‘different’ and we want to change the perception of sales.

“We want people to see that sales is a good career, and not just something to fall into.

“Our big message with our training days is that you can get into sales from any level of education whether you’re a graduate or you have just left school.

“We’ve come into a populated market but our strength lies in where we are different and we are quite proud of that.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .