Lyndsey Burgess, co-owner of Travellers World in Brynmawr, and business partner Tyrion Kivell-Davies are in the final stages of acquiring the shop from its landlord after being offered first refusal on the property earlier this year.
"It’s pretty much all done – just the final stages with solicitors and the mortgage provider," Burgess told TTG. "To think we now own the building as well as the business is just very exciting."
The deal was made possible after Hays Travel stepped in to support the pair. "We didn’t know Hays offered this sort of help," said Burgess, whose agency is a member of the Hays Travel Independence Group.