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Speaker 1: Full circle story for your supermoon as in the jewelry

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Speaker 1: retailer founded in two thousand, sold in twenty seventeen, fell

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Speaker 1: into liquidation earlier this year into Simon Thwaite. He's gone

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Speaker 1: and bought the thing. What's significant about that? He was

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Speaker 1: the founder and he's with the Simon Morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Mike.

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Speaker 3: Emotional, the moon emotional? What do I call it?

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Speaker 2: I think you said supermoon, which sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I thought, no, No, I said silver moon. No,

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Speaker 1: there is a supermoon I could have. I mean, so anyway,

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Speaker 1: my apologies if I did silver Moon, I know, emotional

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Speaker 1: or business, a.

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Speaker 2: Bit of both. When I heard it went into into liquidation,

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Speaker 2: that was Fressh said, Do I think that? Yeah? I

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Speaker 2: think there's an opportunity there for sure.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 1: In starting it and then selling it and then going

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Speaker 1: into liquidation, is that a victim of the times, because

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen through now we all know what we've been through.

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Speaker 1: Is that a victim of the times? Or was something

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Speaker 1: done wrong without banging the person who ended up in

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Speaker 1: that predicament.

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Speaker 2: It's hard for me to say from the outside, but

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Speaker 2: certainly we were successful, but times have been tough. I

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Speaker 2: mean you've had COVID and you've had cost of living crisis. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been it's been pretty grim. Yeah, it's hard to

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Speaker 2: stay from the outside.

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Speaker 1: And when and looking at what you've picked up. What

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Speaker 1: have you picked up in terms of, you know, how

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Speaker 1: doable it all is.

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Speaker 2: We haven't picked up any stores. So we're very excited

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Speaker 2: about the website. They were doing well online and habits

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Speaker 2: have changed. People are shopping more online. We opened the

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Speaker 2: website yesterday. Tomorrow we do open our first store the

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Speaker 2: Riverside Markets and christ so we will have a store

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Speaker 2: presence and then in November we open at the Hornby Hub.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, slowly, but you've got expansion plans.

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Speaker 2: We've got expansion plans, but it's going to be something

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Speaker 2: that we do organically, make sure that each stores of

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Speaker 2: profit sent to everything working and don't go too quick.

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Speaker 3: So what are you? Are you a jeweler or an entrepreneur?

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Speaker 3: We're both definitely.

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Speaker 2: Not a jeweler, definitely an entrepreneur, businessman, whatever you want

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Speaker 2: to call me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what do you do? Once you sold Silver Moon?

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Speaker 2: I became a dirty old landlord. I went into commercial property,

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Speaker 2: commercial property and look it's it's it's good, it's fun,

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Speaker 2: but it's a dry compared to the retail and jewelry

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Speaker 2: and on the fun that's hopefully ahead.

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Speaker 3: Do you like jewelry? I mean, are you in it

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Speaker 3: for that love it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Used to used to really enjoy the product and

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Speaker 2: and supplies, all the supplies that come back on board.

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Speaker 2: So we reached out to them and they said, yep,

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Speaker 2: every every single you got a.

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Speaker 1: Programmer and Karen Walker and those sort of lines, haven't

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Speaker 1: you by.

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Speaker 2: Rang and Karen Walker sold and girlfriends involved. We didn't

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Speaker 2: get a single no. And obviously a couple of them

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Speaker 2: might have been mood so he could have been expect

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Speaker 2: being a bit of a bad response, but that never happened.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it took the plane.

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Speaker 1: Just explained it to us in a time of great

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Speaker 1: difficulty economically speaking, Why you would bother or is it

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Speaker 1: just that connection you had with it? Or do people

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Speaker 1: like you just do what you want to do no

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Speaker 1: matter what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I take some friend yesterday calling me a massachist,

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Speaker 2: So you could be right, Mike Butler. We're coming from

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Speaker 2: a reasonably strong financial background. We think there's a very

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Speaker 2: low risk Riverside Market opens tomorrow. We think that's a

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Speaker 2: hidden gem and costume. Yes, it's become a bit of

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Speaker 2: a focal point for tourists. We don't we can go

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Speaker 2: wrong in the here the Horby Hub. Again, that's a

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Speaker 2: growing area. I think Selwyn's the fastest growing area in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. So I think if we can be clever

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Speaker 2: and we can execute on a website, So if the website,

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Speaker 2: if we can execute well and have the Zelander's flocking

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Speaker 2: to that website, so I think we'll you know, I

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Speaker 2: could be proved wrong, but hopefully we can't go wrong,

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Speaker 2: then you'll be right.

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Speaker 3: Good on you mate.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much, Simon Thwaites. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: like that silver Moon, the founder, the seller, the savior.

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Speaker 2: Maybe.

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