How pre-Budget speculation helped deliver £22bn for a Gloucestershire firm

Critics rounded on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the Budget as briefings created uncertainty, but it proved seriously good news for one Gloucestershire business.

Jan 29, 2026

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Dear readers,

This wasn’t what we had planned to send out on today’s Thursday email, but it caught our eye and we couldn’t resist turning it around - to share our take on the annual results of Gloucestershire’s biggest firm by turnover (at least we’re calling it that for the sake of this article).

All of which means we have more time to spend working on Friday’s full edition.

Until then.

Best regards,

Andrew Merrell (editor).

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