Dad who came to Manchester as a labourer with £6 builds multi-million pound beauty business empire with his wife and children
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukCut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Arriving at Manchester Piccadilly from Scunthorpe in 1969 with just £6 in his pocket, David Salmon had no real plan.
The former steelworks labourer was in search of new opportunities, and began renting a tiny room in Rusholme for £2.50 a week.
He first landed a job at the Palace Theatre as a stagehand, but it wasn’t until he began supplying jewellery boxes to Debenhams around 20 years ago that his life dramatically turned around. READ MORE: 'Bring it on' - Rochdale gives new Amazon mega warehouse the thumbs up The famed department store suggested David sourced lipsticks to go inside the cases, and after immediately jumping on a plane to China to make it
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