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Savvy schoolgirl sets up her own sweet business and turns a profit - aged seven

2024-06-11 178 Dailymotion

A savvy schoolgirl has set up her own sweet business making profit - aged just seven.<br /><br />Primary school student Luna Lily grew up watching her entrepreneur mum, Francesca Farrow, 32, run a business - and decided one day to set up her own.<br /><br />Luna pitched her sweet business idea to her mum - who eventually agreed to invest £150.<br /><br />Luna also invested £50 she had saved up from pocket money and bought sweets, bags and stickers.<br /><br />From there, Luna's Magical Sweets was born - and after Francesca, a digital marketing agency owner, set up a website and social media, orders started trickling in.<br /><br />Luna offers a range of options including different colour and flavour themed bags and 'letter box' packets to send in the post.<br /><br />Just two months in, having fulfilled around 270 sales so far, the little entrepreneur has already made back both her and Francesca's investments and is in profit.<br /><br />Francesca, from Caerphilly, Wales, said: "The entrepreneurial spirit has always been there - growing up, her favourite game was always playing shopkeeper.<br /><br />"She has always seen me doing my work, at meetings or designing things, and she has always wanted to help too.<br /><br />"When she first started mentioning it I thought she would forget - but she didn't!<br /><br />"I built the website for her and did the adult bits, but she's pretty much done the whole thing herself since then.<br /><br />"She comes home from school and sits in the study working on her business instead of playing on the Xbox - it's so nice to see.<br /><br />"I've been teaching her about re-investing her profits and she browses the wholesaler's website by herself.<br /><br />"Sometimes she is up working in the office before me in the mornings!<br /><br />"I feel very proud of her - she is committed to something and she hasn't given up."<br /><br />The youngster grew up seeing her entrepreneur mum leading a successful career.<br /><br />But Francesca had no idea she'd want to follow in her footsteps until a project at school a year ago which involved Luna selling some bath bombs.<br /><br />From then on, Luna was dead-set on launching her own business selling personalised sweet bags.<br /><br />Finally, after months of begging, in April Francesca finally caved in.<br /><br />She said: "After so much pestering, I took her to the warehouse and she picked out some bags of sweets.<br /><br />"I taught her to design her own packaging, logos and stickers on Canva, and we ordered it all."<br /><br />After setting up an online presence with Francesca's help, Luna got her first order on April 28 - 100 identical sweetie bags for a local wedding to give out as favours.<br /><br />Luna stayed up all night packing them all and earned her first £100 from a very happy bride and groom.<br /><br />That was followed by another order of 100 bags by a local estate agent, and then 20 for a local football club.<br /><br />She has now made back the £200 from her initial investment, and has made £70 profit so far, with plenty of stock left to sell.<br /><br />Francesca said: "I've had to teach her about profits and re-investing.

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