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Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national & regional newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses.
The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors.
This week’s panel of experts were:
Andy Robbins – joint managing director at Baylis Motor Group. The company employs nearly 400 staff across nine forecourts, two accident repair centres and non-franchise used car site in Worcester and a turnover of £117 million.
They have close ties with the motor giant Stellantis and sell brand-new MG, Vauxhall, Peugeot and Suzuki vehicles across our dealerships in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England, and Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. So, we will find out how the business and the motor trade is doing, EV sales, the flood of new Chinese brands & 0% finance is available, does that make a huge difference to sales?
Roman Cooper – MD of Allcooper Property and former owner of Allcoopers. Roman Cooper and his brother, Gerard Cooper, sold their family business in 2019 and now he runs the property company. We find out about what is he up to now – and who and how he looks after the properties. He also reveals his top three tips/ takes on selling your business.
Clare Seed – director of Tidal Training Direct Ltd. A Cheltenham company, specialising in first‐aid, CPR, defibrillator and workplace first aid training. She is also co-founder of the Public Hearts Defibrillator Campaign CIC, a community scheme focused on increasing public access defibrillators in Cheltenham and has currently fitted 108 across Cheltenham. Where is the next one and how did she get it all started? She also reveals what you need to do if you are considering having a defib on your building – how do you go about it?
Another jam-packed edition as always. Covered this week: Royal Mail fined for late delivery, Sir Stephen Brown, state workers over public workers, Villa Park, New AI tools enabling medical improvements, Positive news.com, Barratt Homes helping James Hopkins Trust, Chambers pub on Kings Square becoming a Loungers, The Advanced Composites Manufacturing Enterprise opened in Hardwicke, Gloucester. And much, much more.
