In 1966 started in a servo, bought a truck, built a fuel distribution business, poor exit with business partner, with new partner grew defunct distributor from 1 to 30 FTE, $0 to $80m sales & 100m litres pa 2001 sold for 5x profit (John Trewin)

Grow A Small Business Podcast · Aug 30, 2020 · 1m

In this episode, I interview John Trewin, the previous co-owner of Advanced Petroleum. At the age of 29 in 1966, John got his first job off the farm in a petrol station, bought a truck, grew the fuel distribution company, and added a business partner (which didn't end well a few years later) While he was taking some time out of the distribution game, he was approached to rebuild another distributor nearby. He went on to grow it from 1 full-time employee (himself) to 30 full-time employees, and from 0 sales to $80 Million in annual sales. The business was selling over 100 million litres a year…