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Window cleaner who began knocking on doors with his brother reports a 63% sales rise to £12.1million

A window cleaner who began by knocking on doors with his brother has reported a 63 per cent year-on-year rise in his firm’s sales to £12.1million after winning contracts with the Co-operative Group and Santander.
Thornton Tasker, 49, was the fourth generation of window cleaners in his family – but his vision has proved the clearest.
Nationwide Window Cleaning, headquartered in Leeds, has increased its workforce by 120 over the past two years, bringing the total to 285.

Co-founded in 2007 by Tasker, it received financial backing of £3million from the Business Growth Fund in July last year to expand its operations and is now considering acquisitions.
Tasker said: ‘When I was 18 and my brother 17, we went knocking on doors locally. We had this old car that cost £200 and we financed it over six months. But we were so broke we couldn’t meet the first couple of payments. It was very, very humble beginnings.’

NWC, which is Tasker’s second window cleaning firm after he sold the one he founded with his brother, now cleans the windows of more than 20,000 buildings in the UK. It counts universities, hospitals, retailers and other businesses – such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Asda and the British Museum – as clients.
The British Museum’s Great Court represents a special challenge as it has 3,312 panes – no two of which are the same.



courtesy of: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/smallbusiness/article-3761483/No-pane-no-gain-window-cleaner-3-312-reasons-cheer.html

[Smurf]

Is that all?
Some will say on here that a 2 man van can do that in a day, every day 

Just goes to show with a bit of luck and a lot of hard graft what can be acheived.
 I'm betting they undercut the competion still...Get off my patch and all that   

[Tosh]

There's a few on here who fancy themselves and their franchisee's so much they're gonna think that should be them.

[ChumBucket]

I wonder of old Tasker still lives at home with Mum?

[Tosh]

I bet he can clean windows trad

[p1w1]

doesn't even have his nvq level 2 qualification    http://nwc-group.co.uk/qhse/

[ChumBucket]

I wonder if he has twin 50" office monitors to keep track of his minions!! 

[Smudger]

Hopefully he has a nice motor - one for every day of the week 👍

Darran