Joe Grundy voted Borsetshire Businessman of the Year: Report
Ambridge Socialist Classic: Joe Grundy, Borsetshire Businessman of the Year
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The Ambridge Socialist
Boxing Day edition
Joe Grundy Voted Borsetshire Businessman of the Year
While Brian Aldridge may have been named Borsetshire Businessman of the Year (Justin Elliott turned it down) the Ambridge Socialist prefers a more open and democratic way of doing things.
In the pre-Xmas period we ran a poll to find the real Borsetshire Businessman of the Year.
We ruled out Justin Elliott firstly on the basis that he clearly doesn’t want the title (for probably doubtful reasons) and secondly because he does most of his business elsewhere.
We did include Brian Aldridge, who after all is chair of Borsetshire Land.
We also included Toby Fairbrother as a representative of the aspiring but so far fairly useless young entrepreneurs of Ambridge. Josh Archer might have made it but we were looking for a successful businessman and we didn’t want to fill up the poll with losers.
Of course either or both Josh and Toby might go on to be very successful. Time will tell.
This left us with a third choice to make, someone who represented traditional business in Ambridge and its environs. We decided on Joe Grundy. Joe has set up and run (with Eddie) a successful cider business, on which like all the best businessmen he pays no tax. He also runs as a private-members club, a cider barn. At Xmas he markets turkeys which this year sold out helped by the offer of a free sample of Grundy’s latest craft cider, Tumble Tussocks.
Its true, as far as we can see, that Grundy does not turn a great profit, but he covers costs and has run sustainable businesses in Ambridge for many years.
We could of course have included Borsetshire businesswomen but unfortunately this year no example stood out. Shula’s Riding Stables have had issues and while Jolene has done an excellent job keeping The Bull going after the Great Flood it remains underwritten in part by finance from David Archer.
The poll results were as follows:
Joe Grundy 58%
Brian Aldridge 26%
Toby Fairbrother, not very many
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