Buying a Family Business
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Natalie is joined by Louise Frankland, the managing director of Mansfield Pollard, an engineering company based in Bradford that was, until earlier this year, a third-generation family-owned business. Natalie and Louise discuss the challenges and opportunities of transitioning from a family business to a privately-owned business and how to take a business forward when the family name is still above the door, but the family aren’t involved, all while working through a pandemic.
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