BBC Radio 4 Interview Rob Halliday-Stein

Listen to BullionByPost Founder & Managing Director Rob Halliday-Stein interviewed on BBC Radio 4 You&Yours show on how the recent gold and silver price drops have affected his growing business. 

Rob explains how increased demand for gold and silver bullion has forced him to recruit new staff and seek a new larger premises in Birmingham city centre. Rob also goes on to detail how the recent price dip has resulted in an unprecedented surge in demand for physical bullion with thousands of new private investors buying gold for the first time.

Listen to the whole interview on the BBC Radio 4 website

Aired April 2013 | BBC Radio 4 You&Yours

---

      
BullionByPost's Gold Bars Star on BBC2 Newsnight 

Market commentator Max Keiser (of the Keiser Report) and economist Daniel Knowles appear on Jeremy Paxman's BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 17th April to discuss the recent gold price falls alongside BullionByPost's 10 x 1KG Metalor gold bars valued in excess of £300,000.

Ex-trader Keiser continues to back gold and argues the fundamentals of owning physical gold have not changed claiming that the recent price dip offers individuals another great buying opportunity, contrastingly Knowles is pro-paper.

Watch the debate on Jeremy Paxman's BBC 2 Newsnight

Aired 17th April | BBC Newsnight on BBC 2

---

Gold Rush Brings Home the Bacon for Bullion Entrepeneur

This week alone, online bullion retailer BullionByPost has received over 2,500 orders as people flock to buy gold at bargain basement prices.

The price of gold fell to a two year low earlier this week, down 9.2 per cent to around $1,395 an ounce. Bad news if you're holding onto loads of 'paper gold', trading the stuff electronically, but for those selling cold hard nuggets of the stuff, it's brought about a sales boom.

Entrepeneur Rob Halliday-Stein has been inundated with orders at his online bullion store www.BullionByPost.co.uk. On an average week, he processes around 600 orders and receives a few thousand visitors to his website. This week, he has received more than 250,000 visitors and 2,500 orders, driving £5m worth of revenue.

"The falling price of gold has been driven by a very small number of very big, fast sellers such as banks or hedge fund selling large amounts of gold electronically", explains Halliday-Stein. "But of course this is electronic gold as opposed to bullion, so it's not actually moving anywhere. However, customers are seeing the low price and placing orders as they are concerned about the overall economy and see physical gold as a long term investment." Read the full article on the Management Today site

Published 19 April 2013 | Management Today

---

Cyprus Bailout Woes Sparks Rush on Buying Gold
 

Fears about continuing economic instability across the eurozone, exacerbated by the Cyprus bailout, have seen demand for gold soar, according to internet dealer BullionByPost.

The company, which sells and delivers bullion to customers via Royal Mail, said it had seen weekly sales triple to more than £4million in the past two weeks.

It expects to record a turnover of £75million for the year to the end of April, up 40 per cent on the previous year.

The company said most of the demand has come from new customers. It also claimed to have been 'inundated' with inquiries from people living in Cyprus wanting to buy gold.

This includes Cypriots and British expats, as well as people living in the UK but with bank accounts in Cyprus.

Read the article on ThisisMoney.co.uk 

Published 31st March 2013 | This is Money 

---

How I Struck Gold on the Internet

The route to becoming an online millionaire didn't quite happen as Rob Halliday-Stein planned. In the final year of his economics  degree he and a friend built a student accomodation website. Unfortunately, the dotcom bubble burst and, instead of becoming an internet millionaire, Halliday-Stein went to work for an opticians - Dolland & Aitchison. 

There, having impressed in different departments, he was allowed to run its online business. At the time the firm "had a website that it wasn't doing anything with", so Halliday-Stein began to experiment. After seven successful years and now an expert in online retail, he left to help Asda launch the internet side of its George clothing line. But just ten months into the job, Halliday-Stein's mother died. He left the company, determined to make a fresh start. But doing what?

Read the full article on the MoneyWeek website (MoneyWeek subscrption required).

Alternatively, view the article on the BullionByPost website.

Published 11 March 2013 | MoneyWeek

---

 Striking Gold: Rob Halliday-Stein

In a downturn, strong, fast-growth businesses are like gold dust: we need them if our economy is to grow and thrive. Birmingham's BullionByPost is well and truly a child of the recession.

All too often we hear about the losers of the recession; tales abound of businesses – large and small – going to the wall. Just last month, HMV and Blockbuster, two of the high street’s best-known brands, hit the runners. 

And then, every once in a while, a business emerges triumphant, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of our once-thriving economy. BullionByPost is one such firm. The founder of the Birmingham-based business, Rob Halliday-Stein, struck gold when he realised that the banking industry had gone to the dogs and people were looking for other ways and means to invest their cash. 

Read the full article on the Elite Business website. Alternatively, view the article on BullionByPost.

Published 04 February 2013 | Elite Business Magazine

---

How I made it: Rob Halliday-Stein, Founder of BullionByPost

AS he waited outside the office of a London bullion dealer, Rob Halliday-Stein had his big idea.

Four years ago, after his mother died, he had travelled from Birmingham to find out how he could turn his inheritance into something he could keep hold of — GOLD.

The banking crisis was raging, and waiting with him were others wanting the safety of gold rather than money in a bank that might go bust. All were happy to pay a 5% fee for the metal. Halliday-Stein thought he could do it better — and cheaper.

In November 2008, he set up Bullion by Post, an online gold and silver dealer. The business, which buys bullion from traditional dealers and delivers it to customers the next day, has gone from sales of £6m and a profit of £20,000 in its first year to a profit of £1.5m last year on sales of £55m. It is based in Birmingham and has 12 staff.

The company has handled more than 35,000 deliveries in Britain, from a £30 silver coin to a £500,000 gold shipment. The average order is worth about £3,000. Read more. 

Click here to view the full article on The Sunday Times website. Please note a online subscription to The Sunday Times website is required.

Alternatively, view the full article on the BullionByPost website.

Published 30 September 2012 | The Sunday Times

---

Entrepreneur Q&A: Rob Halliday-Stein, Founder of BullionByPost

ManagementToday: What does BullionByPost do, in a nutshell?

Rob Halliday-Stein: We sell gold and silver bars and coins to individuals over the web. We buy the gold from the big, European refineries – Umicore and Metalor are two of the largest – and most of our coins from the Royal Mint, pay wholesale prices, and sell it on. It’s a straightforward mark-up business. Click here to view the Q&A

Click here to view the full Q&A with Rob Halliday-Stein on the Management Today website 

Published 11 September 2012 | Management Today

---

Real Wealth in Your Hands

Protecting your portfolio with physical gold could be the ultimate insurance for turbulent times