Family business
Steven Scarlett - The beginning of the end for independent family owned businesses?
Two stories of high-profile local businesses selling out to major groups have been featured in the Eastern Daily Press in recent weeks – J&H Bunn, which was sold to American-based Koch Industries in March 2011, and Anglian Bus, sold to the national Go-Ahead Group in April 2012.
Founder of Great-Yarmouth based Hydramec gets set to hand over to the next generation
When he lost his engineering job, Peter Church came up with a new way to pay the bills - building robot submarines.
Business as usual for Anglian Bus following takeover by Go-Ahead Group
Bosses of Anglian Bus said passengers would not notice any difference in service following its takeover by the Go-Ahead Group.
Getting the right TV exposure
Would you let TV cameras into the running of your company? Business editor Shaun Lowthorpe looks at the pros and cons of broadcasting the ins and outs of your difficulties to the watching world.
ANALYSIS: How the deal to sell Great Yarmouth-based J&H Bunn to Amercian buyers Koch Industries was done
March 15, 2011 and for more than 72 hours lawyers and specialist advisers were locked in negotiations in central London to sell Great Yarmouth-based J&H Bunn to American firm Koch Fertiliser, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the world’s largest private company, as talks were reaching their endpoint.
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