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Steven Brown Art king claims sales boom due to coronavirus crisis
The McCoo artist who spectacularly crashed out of his business leaving staff and creditors high and dry now claims coronavirus is good for his trade.Brazen Steven Brown revealed sales have jumped by nearly a third during lockdown.The artist is being used as an ambassador by the English firm who bought the rights to the McCoo brand just days before his Ayr-based firm collapsed last July.The liquidation of the £11.5m turnover firm killed the jobs of twenty one staff and creditors were owed tens of thousands of pounds.The new firm DGD, based in Derby, is run by entrepreneur David Cordy.That company now says Brown’s bright artwork is helping tap into ‘the UK’s primal love of colour that has also seen people decorating widows, trees and
