Phil Turner Apprentice Wiki, Age, Turner’s Pies

Phil Turner Biography – Phil Turner Wiki

Phil Turner, born Philip Thomas Turner, is a British entrepreneur and contestant on The Apprentice 2024. He is the owner of Turner’s Pies in Bognor Regis and Chichester.

Based in West Sussex since 1933, Turner’s Pies is a family-run scratch baker specializing in quality handmade pies. Their award-winning products are hand-crafted daily from family recipes dating back over 90 years.

Eva and Reginald Turner, the couple who started the business, made and sold their first ever pie out of the well-known Commercial Hotel in Bognor Regis. Over time, they built up a reputation for quality pies – with Mrs Turner’s Steak and Ale a particular favourite – and, by 1966, their three children, Terence, Elizabeth and Pip, started to learn the catering trade.

Then, in 1985, Pip and his wife Margaret started making their pies from home, selling them to local butchers and delicatessens. Building on their parent’s well-established reputation for quality, it wasn’t long before demand was high and, by 1990, they opened their first ever shop on Hawthorn Road, in Bognor Regis.

Philip took over the business in 2009. Brought up around and passionate about pies, he and his older brothers took the business to new heights. By 2013, the family’s pies were named in the Guild of Fine Food’s top 50 foods in the United Kingdom, and used to stock Harrods of London’s world famous food halls. A second pie shop opened in Rustington the following year, a third in Chichester in 2017, and a fourth in Worthing in 2018.

Soon after that, the company launched a Pies by Post service to send pies all over the country, and they were featured in the BBC One documentary Life of Pies, all before being named Supreme Champion of pies for their Rump Steak and Stilton Pie in 2020.

Phil Turner Age

The Apprentice candidate Phil Turner was born in April 1986.

Phil Turner The Apprentice

Turner’s Pies owner Phil Turner is a candidate for series 18 of The Apprentice. The series, fronted by business tycoon Lord Sugar alongside his trusted advisors Baroness Karren Brady and Tim Campbell MBE, sees the hopeful business candidates battle it out for the opportunity of a lifetime for Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment and mentorship.

Phil’s biggest business success “would be buying my parents’ small bakery at the age of 21 and building it into a seven-figure profitable business”. He added: “Building my business over the years is a succession of failures. Almost everything I’ve done for the first time failed in one way or another. I live by the motto “we win or we learn.” There is no failure that I have encountered in business or life that has not been necessary for growth. Failure is necessary for success.”

Sharing why he thinks he deserves Lord Sugar’s investment, Phil said: “I deserve Lord Sugar’s investment because I already have a track record of successfully building and scaling a business. I have learnt how to run a business the hard way, and now I feel like it’s time to take my business to the next level.”

The Apprentice candidates are Amina Khan, Dr Asif Munaf, Flo Edwards, Foluso Falade, Jack Davies, Maura Rath, Noor Bouziane and Oliver Medforth. The candidates completing the lineup are Onyeka Nweze, Paul Bowen, Dr Paul Midha, Rachel Woolford, Raj Chohan, Sam Saadet, Steve Darken, Tre Lowe and Virdi Singh Mazaria.

Phil Turner Net Worth

The Apprentice’s Phil Turner runs a multi-million-pound business.

Phil Turner Illness

Phil Turner is reportedly dyslexic. He told the BBC: “You may not know, but I am terrible at writing and spelling; anything I write by hand will always be in capital letters and almost definitely spelt wrong. Although undiagnosed, I would imagine I am dyslexic. I don’t feel it has held me back in business.”

Nationality

He is of British nationality.

Phil Turner Instagram

Phil Turner’s Instagram handle is @only_philturner.