Gary Grant believes The Entertainer is a reward to children who are dragged around all the boring shops on the high street TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLESunrise has only just punctured the wintry Buckinghamshire sky but Gary Grant has already been at The Entertainer’s shop for an hour. After a cursory handshake he returns to bustling about the store, straightening rows of dolls, action figures and wooden train sets and beckoning staff to hunt down missing items. “A quarter of our year’s turnover is in December, 8 per cent of our sales are in Christmas week, and half of all sales are in the last quarter — we’re busy,” he says, firing out statistics as an excuse for his initial gruffness. Mr Grant, 61, a multimillionaire who was born in Wembley, northwest London, describes his childhood as “tough” — his parents divorced when he was three, there was not a lot of…

Source: The Times December 20, 2019 17:15 UTC