An entrepreneur who appeared on hit BBC show Dragon鈥檚 Den has launched a new company to celebrate all things literature.
Newcastle-under-Lyme businessman Dave Breese launched The Gold Disc company in 2002 to provide personalised framed gold discs for music lovers everywhere, as well as major retailers including HMV, Hard Rock Cafe and Hammersmith Apollo.
He appeared on Dragon鈥檚 Den in 2015 to pitch for 拢30,000 investment to improve the music memorabilia鈥檚 website and mobile offering.
Despite being rejected by investors, Dave鈥檚 business remains a thriving success, so much so that he has now launched a new company.
He has launched thebookframer.com to coincide with World Book Day on March 4.
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The Book Framer operates in a similar way to The Gold Disc company, providing box-framed books and framed covers, canvas prints and personalised 鈥榓wards鈥.
Dave 鈥 who runs both companies from an office at Brampton Sidings 鈥 said: 鈥淲e all love to celebrate landmark moments in our lives and our memories are often marked by songs or novels that we鈥檝e loved. That idea led me to launch thegolddisc.com around 19 years ago and has now led to thebookframer.com.
鈥淲e鈥檙e looking to attract authors, publishers and the general public, basically anyone looking to celebrate their favourite book.
鈥淚鈥檝e been working on the idea for some time and we鈥檝e been able to test it due to the success of thegolddisc.com, with publishing companies coming to us with ideas for memorabilia and gifts.
鈥淣ow we鈥檙e launching to the general public and I think there鈥檚 no better time to launch than on World Book Day.鈥
Dave 鈥 who has already produced book awards for Hachette Children鈥檚 Books and the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy 鈥 added: 鈥淧ublishers come to me looking for novel presentation gifts and awards in both the music and book publishing sectors, but there鈥檚 also a desire from the general public for gifts and nostalgia 鈥 and the explosion in the self-publishing market, both in fiction and with business leaders becoming authors with 鈥渉ow to鈥 guides.
鈥淚n the 21st century, many authors have become celebrities and literature is the new rock and roll. That鈥檚 why I鈥檝e launched thebookframer.com.鈥
Dave hopes that the Book Framer will become the 鈥榣eading resource鈥 for independent authors, novelists and publishers to support book launches or memorabilia.
