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Filed under: family business

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Manufacturing

22% of family manufacturers weigh overseas sale after IHT change

A Make UK and Bishop Fleming survey puts numbers on what the business property relief cap is doing to succession plans. Energy costs are doing the rest.

212 · 9 September 2026
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Vivien Wong quit an £80,000 job to sell mochi to cinemas

Little Moons went viral on TikTok during the pandemic. Its co-founder says the company had already been running for a decade, and spent five of those years nowhere near a supermarket shelf.

106 · 20 August 2026
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Rejected by every bank at 26, he built the trampoline park himself

Michael Browning Jr. laid the wood and unloaded the foam cubes for the first Urban Air park with his father in 2011. The franchise platform he built on top of it reports it passed $1bn in sales last year.

32 · 9 August 2026