A mum from Colchester is bidding for world domination after entering the world of "big" business.

Big business - entrepreneur Kim Lewis, son James and Tracey Applin check the Huskyz website. Picture: STEVE BRADING (36377-b)

The Gazette told in June how Kim Lewis had decided to set up Huskyz, her own clothing company for overweight children, after she had trouble finding clothes for her eight-year-old son James.

Since then, she has created her own website, designed a range of garments and paid an Indian company to produce 10,000 of them.

Her order turned up in a 40-tonne truck a few weeks ago and she has already made more than £1,000 worth of sales.

So far, requests are only coming in fast enough to pay off the loan she took out to start the business, named after the generic American term for large-sized boys' clothes.

But the former banker has plans that could see Huskyz expand to keep pace with youngsters' waistlines.

She said: "There are three million overweight children in this country alone, and statistics for Europe are as bad. None of the plus-size clothes on the market are big enough and it is the same in the States.

"We have had lots of enquiries from America and Canada it's a bit like exporting fridges to eskimos!"

Published Thursday, December 30, 2004

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