Hotel supplies
Pacific Direct
Hotel supply company Lara Morgan founded in 1991, built from a granny flat in Bedford into a global business and sold for £20 million.
Pacific Direct, in hotel supplies, is on Sourced.media through Lara Morgan, founder of Pacific Direct, a podcast guest on The BEYOND Podcast interviewed by podcast host Aleksandra King.
The details
- Founded
- 1991
- Based in
- Bedford
- People
Lara MorganFounder · Self-stated - Episodes
- 1 episode
Topics
- Resilience and mindset1
- Selling2
- Founding, growing and selling a business7
- Money and investing2
- Teams and culture1
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Lara Morgan on The BEYOND Podcast
Season 3, episode 11 · 17 June 2026
Founded in 1991, when there were no jobs: Lara Morgan made a job selling sewing kits and shower caps made in China, and took them to the Dorchester.
The business started in a three-bedroom granny flat in Bedford.
£108,000 of business in the first year, on a rule of a hundred calls before a drink.
A global hotel supply company; she sold millions of mini shampoos and shower gels.
September the 11th emptied the hotels; she put her own house up for six months and told her husband afterwards.
Sold for £20 million; she owned 99 per cent of it.
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