Thomas Ennis has built a retail business in Dublin that employs over 250 people. Expelled from school at 15 he boxed internationally and trained as a butcher before learning about retailing from some of the best known names in Irish groceries. He now runs a multimillion business headquartered on Dublin’s Baggot mile. In this article Ennis discusses: How he built from scratch a dozen retail businessesLessons from the late Feargal QuinnLasting retail trends versus fadsWhat the newspaper trade needs to do to surviveHow one of his stores beat 900 others to be named best small store of the year *****…

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