In 1992, Martin Ephson and his business partner Tom Helme acquired a majority stake in the heritage paint brand Farrow & Ball . The pair—Ephson had a background in finance, and Helme was the decoration advisor for the National Trust—wanted to help breathe new life into the struggling company. “There were only 11 people employed in the business, and everything was a priority in terms of reorienting it and setting it on the path to becoming something quite significant,” Ephson tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast .

The duo remained at the helm for 14 years, transforming the brand from a small team working out of 6,000 square feet in Dorset, England, to the company well-known today for its 60 showrooms across the globe, powered by a team of aroun

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