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Welsh entrepreneur goes from dole queue to running £180m business in little over a decade
He was so broke just 13 years ago that he had to borrow £2.50 from his mum for deodorant but now Darren Briggs is sitting pretty
Darren Briggs founded the Ascona Group in 2011 (Image: Mark Lewis)
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By Alice Leader2021-04-28T11:57:00+01:00
Source: Ascona Group
Three new forecourts are to be added to its estate by tomorrow, taking it to a total of 59 sites
Ascona Group is set to almost double its estate to 120 sites by next April, and hopes to get to 300 in three to five years.
The forecourt operator currently has a 56-site network across England and Wales and is “evaluating” opportunities in Scotland. A further three new forecourts are to be snapped up by tomorrow (29 April).
On Monday the business acquired a 4,500 sq ft site in Kington, Herefordshire, the group’s first standalone convenience store, or “mini supermarket”, without a fuel service station.
Currently work is ongoing transforming the Bush Hill service station, into a new Ascona Group forecourt provider. The Ascona Group company are nation wide forecourt providers, and have around 55 sites in the UK. Their CEO Darren Briggs is from Pembrokeshire, where the company was founded in 2011. Since January the Ascona Group have been updating the public on what the completed station will look like, using computer generated imaging known as renders . The most recent image shown in this article, is said to be the final render for the service station, which hopes to open on June 1. Darren has publicly said he thinks that the station in Pembroke is coming along nicely, and will be a good testament to where the Ascona journey started for him around 10 years ago.