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Business Daily

Businesses on wheels

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Mobile businesses - or businesses on four wheels - are growing in number. Seen as an affordable and flexible way to set up a venture, more of them are popping up all around the world and in all sorts of industries.

We head to rural France, pioneer territory for van-trepreneurs where now, food trucks, mobile pet grooming services and even mobile cinemas are thriving.

And we hear from guests in India and Kenya about how the trend has become global.

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Presented and produced by John Laurenson

(Picture: Alisson Zalazar in front of her beauty van in France.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Business Daily with me, John Lawrenson. Today we're in France, a pioneer

0:06.9

when it comes to putting businesses on four wheels. A grocer arriving in a village in the 1980s,

0:15.3

as few would have missed, even those lying in the cemetery. Mobile bakers, fishmongers, butchers and the like

0:23.0

have been motoring to isolated rural communities for decades.

0:27.3

But in the past few years, all over the world,

0:29.6

that old truck shop idea has become huge.

0:33.2

Food trucks are a big part of it.

0:34.7

The food truck industry is striving.

0:37.5

In 2024, the global market is valued at approximately $4 billion.

0:42.5

And there are a lot of enterprising people out there launching mobile businesses you maybe wouldn't have thought of.

0:48.8

In this episode of Business Daily, we'll be going from France to the UK to Kenya and back again to hear about the joys and pains of going nomad.

1:01.0

Oh, that's really nice. What are you putting on my face there?

1:06.5

It's a lime purifying gel. We want to cleanse the skin so that the active ingredients penetrate more easily.

1:15.2

In the back of Alison Zalazar's beauty truck,

1:18.9

getting what she calls her targeted lime treatment.

1:22.9

I didn't realize my face needed a cleanse, scrub, mask and massage,

1:26.8

but that's exactly what I needed.

1:29.7

She set up AV Beauty, as her itinerant beauty parlour is called, two years ago.

1:35.8

Now she drives it from country village to country village in an area about 40 miles southeast of Paris.

1:42.5

What's the most popular?

1:47.5

In winter, it's more massages and nails.

1:51.2

When you get towards summer, it's epilation.

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