The magic formula that created a Gloucestershire business legend

We look at the journey a family firm began just under two decades ago that took its turnover of £29 million to four times that and staff numbers to 220. It's a business that’s just been sold for £70m.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of The Raikes Journal. We hope your week is going well.

Our first edition of this week was a write-up of what we really thought was taking place at last week’s CyNam event at Cheltenham Literature Festival. Something about the article seemed to have found favour, and the comments on LinkedIn alone - where we try and share some of what we’re up to - were great to see.

You can read the edition here, in case you missed it.

Today we take a look at a story we almost ditched when the business it is about was sold recently, but after a little thought we realised that news only made it all the more valuable. At least we think so anyway. We hope you do too.

If you are one of those debating whether investing money in training yourself and your leadership team is worthwhile, we hope this story blows away any of the fog and makes it clear just what that move could do to you and your business.

As for tomorrow, well, you’ll have to wait and see - but we do have…