PRESENT: Richard Slater Lancashire Business View (chair)


Fran Ashcroft Hexagon Care


Richard Few Sales Geek


Gill Hall Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses


we still have to take a vested interest, because 


SM: A winning mentality can take you quite a  year last year and with Brexit and the election  the year the outlook for a lot of businesses  impacted many but what I found was that they had strategies and those strategies were  


GH:  fundamental reason why family businesses    going and going and going, because they really 


 back on your heritage and say, ‘We’ve done it  ‘it’s no good sometimes just doing your best;  Also, we have stuck to our values, so we have


James Morris RSM


Shakira Musarat Barclays





JM:  to adapt and change, and a lot of businesses  Businesses have been doing things that they


The average age


of a family business is something like five generations. They keep going and going and going because they never consider not winning


 situation and thought there was an opportunity to do something more and better will come out 


Iain Pearson Age Concern


Pauline Rigby Forbes


Amin Vepari Lancashire County Council


Andrew Wood UPS


FA: It is times such as these you really see  belief within the company to employ the right   the chips are down those people stand up to  


IP:   to take anything on the chin and not see it     whether you are a rower or a sprinter, it is about 


It is about surrounding yourself with good people and once you do that the rest, in many    skills that you have got; it is your attitude, your  


Amin Vepari


Gill Hall


Andrew Wood


Shakira Musarat


Fran Ashcroft


Pauline Rigby


Iain Pearson


James Morris


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