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\"wdbjei0byz0xdtnqka0rcwxiym7pxxmb8fmioim51agb6jm0.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&v=2\"\ud83d\udc51 THE MARBLE KING UK<\/p>

It started a good few years before Harl\u00e9 Jordean got to meet with Business man and celebrity Theo Paphitis of Dragons Den in Birmingham, London, 2014<\/strong><\/p>

In fact it first began with lots of fun one long summer, schools. This was when schools were out for summer, 2009. Harl\u00e9 Jordean was just 6 and loved playing marbles so much with his many friends an on his own in the neighbourhood in London where he lived, England, UK. Harl\u00e9 soon became known as the Marble King. Then during this time, 2009, age Harl\u00e9 was just age 6 with help from his mum he was lucky enough to have opened the Marble King UK online web-store and began to sell glass marbles all around the world. This became a massive News story in the UK and all around the world after a journalist passed by his webstore in 2011.<\/p>

His story featured in many of the main tabloids in UK to the pleasant surprise of his friends and his teachers surprise too didn\u2019t go unnoticed!<\/em><\/p>

https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/the-tiny-marble-tycoon-18271101<\/a><\/p>

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THE TINY TYCOON<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/a> - MARBLE KING (UK) OFFICIAL SITE Forget the Junior Apprentice - this eight-year-old is set to become the\u2026<\/span><\/strong> next big thing after turning his playground business into a money-making internet business.<\/span><\/p>

The Young Marble King Story was picked up worldwide.<\/span><\/p>

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The Marble King Heart Warming Story Went Viral<\/strong><\/h3>

https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/8yo-uk-marble-entrepreneur\/<\/a> - 2011 The tiny tycoon from London has been running the thriving <\/span>marbleking.co.uk<\/span><\/a> website for two years.<\/span><\/p>

A time of innocence when social media was kind, used to socially share good and interesting news to enjoy.<\/p>

With a simple single tweet on Twitter, as it was known back then, now known as <\/strong>\ud835\udd4f<\/span> , Harl\u00e9 begun to tweet every Sunday thereafter for 18 months he finally won a small business competition in an adult world run by Dragon Dens Theo Paphitis.<\/strong><\/p>

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Harl\u00e9 would watch Dragons Den every Sunday and enjoyed joining in posting a tweet to Theo Paphitis small business Sunday competition hoping Theo would read the tweet. Small Business Sunday generally had adults participating hope their business would get noticed AND lo and behold after 18 months it paid off and the little business man got noticed by Theo Paphitis himself!<\/strong><\/p>

2012<\/h3>

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With persistence The Marble King become a winner, notably the youngest \u2018Small Business Sunday\u2019 SBS WINNER 2014.<\/strong><\/p>

Harl\u00e9 Jordean aka The Marble King UK also was recognised and known for being the youngest CEO in the world at the time.<\/p>

16yrs later,<\/strong> 2026, after selling physical glass marble successfully for well over a decade the decision was made to continue the journey with a twist and join the fashion and artwork industry to design, sell wears and artwork prints.<\/p>

Customers and fans get to wear marble graphic design on T-shirts, Tops, Caps and more besides. Also to hang marble graphic design on walls.<\/strong><\/p>

Harl\u00e9 is now in his twenties and has had time to reflect on his childhood and the journey of the Marble King that has been a huge part of his life, he would have loved to have worn a t-shirt, a hoodie and to have be able to buy awesome graphic design depicting amazing glass marble to hang a picture on his bedroom wall to wake to, end the night At shut eye and enjoy during daylight hours. If fact to hang poster or canvass in various places in the home. To be able to walk with marble design draped on your body and to look at posters and canvases all day long would have been the a dream come true.<\/p>

This generation will have what he didn\u2019t because it wasn\u2019t available \u2014 Join us in the next phase and journey of the Marble King UK business, the transformation of MK\u2122\ufe0f from a toy glass marble business into a apparel design business selling apparel and artwork with a continuous nod incorporating glass marble in designs under MK\u2122\ufe0f marked products and merchandise.<\/strong><\/h3>

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