Agricultural giant continues to grow and grow

One of the county’s biggest firms, and one of those featured in Raikes’ rolling Top 100 Businesses in Gloucestershire series, has recorded yet more growth.

Dear Readers,

We hope you had a great weekend.

Something of an agricultural theme to today’s edition of The Raikes Journal and certainly a Cotswold one, as you will find out.

And as well as some diary dates (at the very foot of the edition), it also features a few words by way of tribute to the efforts of one Nigel Tillott, and you will see why.

This reporter recalls the consternation with which the lawyer and keen runner met the announcement that a commercial operation had pulled out of staging the then Gloucester 10k at the last minute. That was more than a decade ago.

Tillott knew the city could do better and decided to prove it. I sat in on the early meetings when he discussed his ideas with the police, the county council and the city council. He probably didn’t realise just what he was getting into, but he has been supported along the way by the incredible efforts of Gloucester Quays Rotary Club and businesses like EG Carter.

We wish him all the best as he attempts to step back!

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