Holly Tucker: Firms flock to my virtual high-street

Holly Tucker isn't too worried about the state of the British high street. Her online department store is seeing sales double each year.

The number of boarded-up shops on the average British high street has tripled in the last year. So it's not the best time to own a department store, you might think. But Holly Tucker, 32, isn't worried her department store is online.

Notonthehighstreet.com, which Tucker co-founded with her friend Sophie Cornish in 2006, is seeing sales double each year. And she has achieved it by creating a place where small businesses that have been pushed off the high street can sell their wares.

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