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To sell or not to sell: The question of the moment

Business leaders have been pushed to a tipping point in Gloucestershire with many are considering one thing – getting out.

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Andrew Merrell
Mar 11, 2025
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Dear reader,

Welcome to the first edition of The Raikes Journal of the week.

If you are off to Cheltenham Racecourse today, we wish you the very best of luck. And if you live and work in Cheltenham, hold on tight!

And ‘yes’, we know, as first glance the lead story for today’s edition doesn’t appear to have our usual cheery, positive vibe, but looks can be deceiving!

If you own a business, run a business, want to own a business, have an interest in a family business, own shares in a business, the below article could be of interest.

Is there a happy ending?

The truth is, we don’t know yet, but the firm who told us the tale give a pretty strong hint at how to make that so.

Certainly what we could be seeing is the beginning a seachange to the owner-run business community on a scale we’ve not witnessed in recent memory, as well as a massive opportunity emerging!

And if the advice below is heeded, there could well be a lot of people ‘getting out’, but also sitting very pretty in the near future - …

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