Discovering a £multi-million third-generation family business

The rebranding of a modest Cheltenham timber business caught a few people’s eyes recently, but you might not have realised you were looking at a £7m turnover third generation family firm.

Dear reader,

I hope you’ve had a good week. Here at Raikes there has been a flurry of new subscribers, which is brilliant. And why we’ve kept the paywall off today’s edition!

As we reported a few weeks ago now, when we passed a full 12 months since our soft relaunch of Raikes, we’re now clocking in excess of 10,000 views a month and have a growing subscriber base (now heading towards 750).

That’s growing organically, no manipulation, no pre-pepared database, no tricks. Its core readership is a good mix of leaders from the business, education, training and charity sectors, plus some political figures to boot.

We would like to think they’re all here because they like to read something interesting, written by a journalist, on a credible platform focusing on Gloucestershire, which is what the aim of Raikes has been from the off - to establish just that. A place away from the marketing-led fast-lane of social media, somewhere to park-up for a few minutes and enjoy a decent view of the county …