A YOUNG entrepeneur who makes £13,000-a-year selling eggs to locals had a cracking time when was invited on an egg-citing tour of a Bromsgrove egg-processing company.
Eight-year-old Junior-James Wyatt, from Tamworth, enjoyed a personal tour of Bumble Hole Foods on Rocky Lane this week.
Junior saw how the state-of-the-art factory breaks 250,000 eggs per hour to make more than 2.5million hard boiled eggs per week.
As part of his company ‘Mr Free Range’, Junior has found success buying free range eggs from a local farm over the weekend, selling them to locals after school.
The determined youngster got the idea after watching the Channel 4 programme ‘How’d You Get So Rich?’ and now his £10 pocket money investment in June has resulted in him making £250 per week.
Junior said: “When I saw the programme I thought I am going to do that so now I get 700 eggs a week from Betty’s Farm Shop in Derbyshire and sell them in packs of six, 12 and 30.
“It has been so exciting earning my own money and meeting lots of new people.
“I’ve spent my first wages on the new Liverpool Champions League football kit.”
After his visit on Monday Junior was presented with a Bromsgrove Sporting shirt bearing his name.
Parents Georgina and Michael, both 26, who also have a four week old daughter Eliza, have been blown away by Junior’s determination and success.
Georgina said: “He now has 40 customers and he’s got a trolley which he wheels around and delivers the eggs after school.
“It has been amazing, we have been contacted by This Morning, the Daily Mail and even Warner Bros.
“We are both so proud of him.”
Bumble Hole Foods, which sells eggs and egg products to the likes of Marks and Spencer, Greggs and Quorn, got in touch with Junior’s family to give them an insight into the egg factory.
Managing director Barry Jackson, speaking ‘eggs-clusively’ to The Standard, said: “Junior’s story caught my eye because that is exactly how I started myself with the egg business myself.
“I was selling eggs from a telephone box outside school at the age of 12.
“That is why we wanted to invited the young man for a tour, we always want to attract enthusiastic people who are interested in what we do.”
