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MY PITCH

JON GREGG, 59

first started selling The Big Issue in 1992. Before then I had studied for a diploma in Printing & Packaging, but the printing industry went through a lot of changes with computers coming in and the companies I worked for couldn’t compete with the prices of newer instant print stores. The company I was with at the time had to perform cutbacks

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