One 79-year old’s £58m B Corp business

If you are looking for some good business news to start the year then this story about how a former Gloucestershire housewife created a B Corp empire today worth almost £60m a year could be it.

Dear reader,

A very happy new year to you. Welcome to the first email ‘edition’ of 2026, albeit a rather slimmed-down single-story version compared with what some regular readers will be used to.

A bite-sized starter for 2026, if you like.

We’ve decided to move away from our trademark longer reads two days a week to produce something a little more digestible first thing on a Monday.

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And we’ll be reintroducing our paywalls onto more Friday editions too in order to help make what we do pay.

What we do is deliver you some real journalism about Gloucestershire in a media landscape we feel is rather lacking any of the same.

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