A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy who started a sweet business from his bedroom has revealed it’s already making thousands.
Sol Murdoch, 9, from Aberchirder in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, started the business after noticing a lack of sweet shops in the area.
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The schoolboy pitched the idea to his mum Holly, 27, and uncle Cameron, 25, who invested £250 each.
Now Sol has made £700 in just one month – and will make £8,500 this year if sales keep up.
Holly said: “It was a normal evening when Sol randomly came downstairs and said he wanted to sell sweets.
“He gave me a Dragons’ Den-style presentation and talked me through what he wanted to do and why.
“There’s only one shop where we live and it’s quite expensive there, and we get quite bad snow so you can be confined to the village.
“He realised no one else was doing it around here – we invested and from there it went a bit crazy.
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“Sol is a very normal nine-year-old, he enjoys sports, days out, family time and spending time with friends, and the other side to him is this entrepreneur.”
She added: “He’s got a range of vegan, gluten-free and sugar-free sweets, he’s thinking about everyone.
“It probably would have scared other children but he’s loving it – a lot of other kids would want to spend all the money, but he hasn’t.
“I ask him what he’s going to buy, and he says he’s going to save it to buy something better.
“I think he’s fantastic anyway, I’m his mum, he just makes me so proud.
“If it was me at that age, I wouldn’t have any sweets left to sell, I would have eaten them all.”
Sol sells sweets at school, at local markets and online via a Facebook page.
His business has even reached customers further south, with Sol shipping 47 bags of sweets to Portsmouth within a couple of weeks of starting his shop.
Despite being too young to get a membership with wholesale companies, Holly says they’ve all been supportive of his efforts, and she says he’s even built good relationships with his suppliers.
Sol even showed his support for the community by visiting the local police station and dropping off a shipment of sweets for officers to enjoy – and was rewarded with a day out at the station for his efforts.
Holly said: “I don’t think he expected it, I think he just thought, ‘I’ll sell some sweets and make some pocket money’ to spend on toys he’s into like Pokémon, Harry Potter and Lego.
“It’s gone far beyond what any of us thought. When he was younger, he always told me he’ll be a millionaire – he used to say he was going to be rich.
“He’s always had this urge to do really well for himself which is quite remarkable really.
“I try and keep my distance and let him make the decisions and choose what he wants to sell, he tells me what sweets he needs and wants to buy, I’m just there to tie the bags and support him.”
It comes after a mum revealed how she is haggling her way onto the property ladder with a button.
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