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‘I invested £250 in a whisk and ingredients’
Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie, 35, from north London, runs the confectionery company Mallow & Marsh.
Setting my marshmallow mix into a doughnut mould, I had sugar all over the kitchen table and a tasty selection of blue, bacon and traditional flavoured marshmallows ready to impress my course mates. It was the summer of 2012 and I was halfway through a two-day business course in London. Back then, I worked in various PR jobs in the City but I’d always dreamed of setting up my own company.
On the first day, an ice-breaking exercise had us shouting out random
