Sally Robinson: The dot com success story from a remote farm in Yorkshire

Tech Business History

Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the outhouses into offices and Amplebosom.com was born - providing lingerie for "the larger lady", as Sally puts it. Twenty years on, Amplebosom is still going strong, whilst conforming to none of the dot com stereotypes. It's been profitable from the start, has never borrowed large amounts of money - and Sally has not made millions from the business either. Presenter Charles Miller featured Sally in a documentary for the BBC twenty years ago. In this podcast he catches up with Sally and the Amplebosom story.