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You and Yours: Gap Finders: Specsavers founders Doug and Mary Perkins

Gap Finders: Specsavers founders Doug and Mary Perkins

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gap Finders: Specsavers founders Doug and Mary Perkins

This week's Gap Finders interview is with the founders of Specsavers opticians - Doug and Mary Perkins

In our Gap Finder interview today, Winifred Robinson speaks to Doug and Mary Perkins, the founders of Specsavers.

It all started nearly 40 years ago, working on a table tennis table at their home in Guernsey - when a change in the law allowed opticians to advertise.

Working in partnership with their store owners, the husband and wife team have gone on to build a market-leading company which now has 2,500 business across 11 countries.

Doug and Mary tell us about the early challenges they faced as they tried to shake up the industry, how they managed to break into new markets at home and abroad - and what the future holds for one of the UK's best-known brands.

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER: TOM MOSELEY

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