Small business stories: what does it take to be a successful tailor? 

Tailoring is a long standing and highly skilled trade. To learn more about it, we spoke to small business owner, David Groves.
David is the Founder and Owner of Room Ten, an exclusive tailor with multiple shops in London and Farnham, Surrey. He and his team have been crafting bespoke suits for celebrities like Ian Wright for almost 10 years.
David is the latest small business superhero to take centre stage in our series focusing on the unsung heroes of the British economy.
These are the small business superheroes and this is their story.
Forget HBOS, BP and GlaxoSmithKline. The smaller guys drive 99% of our economy here in the UK. SMEs accounted for 60% of all private sector employment in the UK last year - employing 15.7 million people. And combined, smaller companies turned over £1.8 trillion in 2016.