UNITED KINGDOM: PRINCE OF WALES TRUST HAS HELPED BEN HOLST SET UP HIS OWN COMPANY MAKING "TITPILLOWS"

Record ID: 861818

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: PRINCE OF WALES TRUST HAS HELPED BEN HOLST SET UP HIS OWN COMPANY MAKING "TITPILLOWS"
  • Date: 5th December 2000
  • Summary: SCU COMPANY WEBSITE USED FOR SELLING 'TITPILLOWS' (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS, HOLST ON COMPUTER COMPANY WEBSITE (4 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Business,Industry,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA82YHR9P84N436IDP02HBX9J15
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  • Story Text: Boobs, bristols or bosoms. Regardless of their many names, one enterprising young man, with the help of Britain's Prince Charles, has made them into a business by making breast-shaped pillows.
    Taking Pamela Anderson's endowments as his inspiration and with a little help from a business fund established by Prince Charles, Ben Holst, an automotive engineer from Brighton on Britain's south coast, set up the 'Titpillow' company selling pillows in the shape of breasts.
    Ben's first 'titpillow' "was made for me for Christmas by my girlfriend Becky and it was so good - we just had to make more" according to Holst - following the sale of his first 100 'Titpillows' he has decided to devote more time to his expanding company.
    Original funding for the company came from The Prince of Wales' Trust which provided Ben with the initial £950 (US$ 1600) and advice to get started. He has sold over 100 of the pillows so far, which are available at his website - www. titpillows. co. uk. and notes that many of his customers are women: "Generally, the client base has been about 80% ladies who have been buying pillows for their boyfriends, husbands or even for themselves".
    Holst's philosophy is that "every one needs a bosom" - be it for sleeping, watching television or reading. Although he has no plans to make pillows out of other body parts, Ben Holst does admit to having ambitions of bigger 'Titpillows'.
    "There's been a lot of people who have enquired about whether we're going to make other parts of the body but I think we're going to stick with boobs and just make them bigger and probably do other colours as well so its multi-racial" he adds.
    For every pillow he sells, Holst will donate £2 ($US3) to breast cancer research.
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