Staying One Step Ahead of Pack Drove Davies' Success ; James O'brien Talks to Etrinsic's Chief Executive Colin Davies About Life in the Pits and in Print

Birmingham Post › July 17, 2004

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Bingo. It was a winner for Colin Davies - he was not even playing the game but by the time he was 20 years old he had put pounds 26,000 in the bank.

In 1968 that was worth at today's price, according to a website inflation calculator, a total of pounds 277,470.

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Staying One Step Ahead of Pack Drove Davies' Success ; James O'brien Talks to Etrinsic's Chief Executive Colin Davies About Life in the Pits and in Print

Every time a ticket was used he was a winner, a winner thousands of times over.

In his spare time to increase his income he had decided to print and sell bingo tickets and for Colin every ticket sold was profitable.

At the time he was working underground at Lea Hall Colliery in Staffordshire where five years earlier he had started at the pit as a pony driver, dragging cables and switches around.

Now, at the age of 63, he is head of a business with a turnover of pounds 24 million and it already has the infrastructure to handle a turnover of pounds 40 ...

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