Saying it loud – very, very loud and very, very clear

Pink Floyd, Killers, Cold Play, Ronnie Scotts, the Royal Opera House, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Rolling Stones – we could go on - and a Gloucestershire business's role in their success.

Dear readers, 

Welcome to your first edition of The Raikes Journal of the week. We hope you had a great weekend.

We were gearing up to tell you some rather exciting news about Raikes progress in its march to establish a website for the discerning reader, one built on journalism, original editorials and interesting stories - not blighted by pop-ups, leading with lists of stuff or unedited press releases that no one has bothered to question.

In the end, we held that news back. Perhaps we’ll share it later in the week.

It was actually a press release we saw run elsewhere, unedited, that caught our eye for today’s story. This was a chance to put the lense of Raikes over a business which not only developed the technology that makes its products in demand internationally, but makes those products right here in Gloucestershire too. We hope you find it interesting.

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