{"id":25134,"date":"2025-05-15T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=25134"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:03:47","slug":"new-purchase-triggers-growth-for-metro-plumbs-youngest-franchisee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/new-purchase-triggers-growth-for-metro-plumbs-youngest-franchisee\/","title":{"rendered":"New purchase triggers growth for Metro Plumb\u2019s youngest franchisee"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Metro Plumb\u2019s youngest ever franchisee has made another purchase just over a year after establishing the Nottingham franchise. Now owning Metro Plumb Lincoln, 25 year old Harry Thompson has expanded his reach as he supports commercial and domestic customers with plumbing needs.<\/p>\n<p>Having built a team of five over the past year, Harry is growing his team, recruiting for a new engineer. They will serve customers in and around Lincoln, Nottingham, Spalding and Skegness, running as far south as Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s business growth is already coming into fruition, having bought a new office in Newark-on-Trent, where he and his team will run the two franchise territories.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the opportunity to expand the business, Harry said, \u201cI\u2019ve proven that the Metro Plumb model works and we have had a great first year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of the Lincoln area will allow me to build on our reputation for excellent service and expertise as well as the efficiencies of operating two territories from one centrally-based office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now working with air source heat pumps and that\u2019s an area, both in the domestic and commercial markets, that has great potential. We have also picked up some contracts with large warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started with Metro Plumb a year ago it was my intention to expand into new areas and I\u2019m delighted that this I\u2019ve been able to make this a reality so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Plumb\u2019s youngest ever franchisee has made another purchase just over a year after establishing the Nottingham franchise. Now owning Metro Plumb Lincoln, 25 year old Harry Thompson has expanded his reach as he supports commercial and domestic customers with plumbing needs. Having built a team of five over the past year, Harry is growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-home-improvement-franchises","category-metro-plumb"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image11-scaled-e1747296216846.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}