LISTEN AGAIN - Laban Roomes on The Sherry Dixon Show - Sunday 30th May

This week on The SHERRY DIXON Show Sherry talks to the man with the golden touch Laban Roomes.

Successful entrepreneur Laban is the man behind Goldgenie a luxury gold plating company. Laban will share his key points to becoming the success he is today with Sherry this Sunday 12-2pm on BANG 103.6FM

About Laban Roomes

Laban Roomes was born and raised in East London his Jamaican parents separated when he was four years old and his mother brought up Laban and his sister single-handedly. From the age of nine, Laban began working: cleaning cars, cutting hedges, anything to bring in some extra money.

Laban’s resourcefulness was such that by the time he was twelve, he would often bring home more from his work out of school hours than his mother earned full-time at the local factory. By the time he was nineteen, Laban had paid off the mortgage on their family home through working a number of jobs and by buying and shipping cars to Jamaica.

Laban got the idea for a gold-plating business while in the USA, where the service is extremely popular. With his car export business taking up a lot of his time, however, Laban put thoughts of his new business on hold.

Fate intervened with a double blow. His mother was taken ill and his brother and business partner sold the company assets. Laban returned to the UK with only £80 and nowhere to live. He slept on a friend’s floor for nine months while developing the company that started as Midas Touch and is now Goldgenie.

Midas Touch began by offering a specialist gold-plating service for Lexus, Bentley and Rolls Royce. Laban actually designed and manufactured the machine that the company uses for its gold plating process.

Laban has also been credited with changing many peoples lives with the gold plating system that has brought him so much fame and success, he has packaged the machine as a business opportunity and has a team of subcontractors around the world who help with any overflow of work, a true pioneer of portable gold plating in the U.K, he has also to date helped many people across the U.K and Europe set up & run their own successful plating businesses. What worked so well for premium brand car badges now works equally well for all manner of commodities, with mobile phones and portable music players the most popular range of items amongst Goldgenie’s customers.

Goldgenie achieved a significant level of fame when they were invited to the Emmys in Hollywood to present Gold plated Nokia 8800 phones to the likes of Denzel Washington and then when he appeared on the BBC TV series Dragon’s Den and won the FIRST investment from new Dragon James Caan.

Goldgenie

The company first developed a unique portable gold-plating machine, which quickly allowed it to establish a successful niche market in the automotive industry. Soon, Goldgenie was gold-plating car emblems for Lexus, Honda, and Toyota dealerships across the UK.

The next step saw the Goldgenie product and service range expand into the personal market. items like jewellery, golf clubs, Nokia mobile phones and also a variety of household objects including high-end bath taps and fittings.

Laban Roomes himself first came to public notice in the UK when he hit the was invited to Hollywood to distribute over fifty gold-plated mobile phones at the ‘Emmy’ Awards to top stars like Helen Mirren and Denzel Washington.

A commission to gold-plate artefacts at a Hindu temple in London followed and Laban was fortunate enough to acquire Simon Woodroffe of Yo! Sushi fame as a business mentor.

This led to a now famous appearance on BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den where multi-millionaire James Caan saw the potential in both Laban Roomes and his company.

With the backing of James Caan, Goldgenie is fulfilling its potential as a luxury gold-plating brand.

For more information go to

www.goldgenie.com

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