Original sentence: Despite erroneously claiming that he had an order for 2.5 million litres of the sauce (when in fact the order was for 2,500 kilograms.showing the confusion brought about with using the metric system), he was offered the £50,000 for a 40% stake in his business by Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh (Farleigh later said that he was impressed by how Roots was able to recompose himself when he discovered the error in his pitch)
Edited sentence: Despite erroneously claiming that he had an order for 2.5 million litres of the sauce (when in fact the order was for 2,500 kilograms), he was offered the £50,000 for a 40% stake in his business by Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh (Farleigh later said that he was impressed by how Roots was able to recompose himself when he discovered the error in his pitch)