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Bolsover site which had grown substantially and now occupied a significant part of the former Bolsover Colliery which was owned by Welbeck Estates and had been divided up into industrial units and compounds following the mine ’ s closure in 1991 . We still required more land to grow the business , so I negotiated to purchase the site we were operating from , and the surrounding tenanted buildings , to give me the footprint needed for sustainable growth .
“ This now gave us a six-acre site in which to invest , building over the years to increase the number of bulk storage tanks and capacity blending capabilities , alongside warehousing and offices . At this point , we were a hybrid model supplying both end users and selling through independent distributors . In 2016 , one of our larger customers in Scotland failed , owing us a substantial amount of money . Their core , long-established business was lubricants , although they had diversified into fuel distribution which is what had got them into trouble . The lubricant team , however , was a highly competent and efficiently run operation and I had no hesitation in
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