BOLTON franchisee Carol Clark is proving that hats help you get ahead.

Felicity Hat Hire, the UK's largest hat hire chain, has awarded her the number one franchise award for the second year running.

Mr Jeff Draper, Felicity Hat Hire's managing director, believes her two-in-a-row achievement is unique.

Mrs Clark worked for banks and stockbrokers in London and the North-west before she married.

She decided on the Chorley Old Road business because she saw it as an exciting and stimulating opportunity which would allow her time to spend with her husband Martin and two little girls.

With encouragement from her husband, she started her Bolton outlet in May, 1996.

A year later she opened a second shop in Ramsbottom.

After producing the best turnover in the group twice she is now hoping to make it a hat trick in 1999. Carol Clark outside her Felicity Hat Hire outlet in Bolton

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