Deal Stories

Hi I'm Jill and I am about to tell you what I did for my husband Ian and his company. Ian owns and runs a small engineering company that seemed permanently on the verge of gong bust. He seemed to have a good turnover of work, but the cost margins were so...

I thought I had heard everything and done just about every deal that I could with my small business, but this guy was way out there. He had just asked me to price up some work for him. The materials came to £13,000 and the labour to about £4,000. He looke...

Bill had just returned from Hull. He was excited when telling me that he had met with six Arabs and had provisionally agreed a deal with them. It would be our firm's largest contract to date. Then he told me that they would be coming in a fortnights time...