Building a B Corp: Inside the latest venture of a serial entrepreneur

This could be a story about a family firm, about a wife and husband working together, an ethical business, a serial entrepreneur, B Corp, a zest for life, a vision. And it is. It’s all those things.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our first edition of The Raikes Journal this week. Our apologies for those expecting to read this yesterday (we usually send on a Monday. An invitation to a rather special event we will be writing about shortly got in the way!).

One of the beauties of Raikes, or at least we think so anyway, is that we don’t just recycle some press releases for you - we can get under the skin of businesses and stories like no other publication.

Today is a big read that resulted from an interview we did with a well-known face of the Gloucestershire business community. What started as a quick chat about her latest venture ended up becoming a deep dive into just how and why she started another business, why it’s B Corp and how that all works.

We’ve tried to get a bit of insight into the story too from people outside of the company - not least a B Corp expert and a legal expert - in the hope it helps other business people ondering the route, but also to give the rest of us mere mortals…