Touch wood, cross your fingers … so far no sign of a hard winter. Very different from this time last year. Today the sky is clear, the sun shining brightly but waterly weakly. And we have had no rain to speak of for quite some time.
But nobody is letting us forget that these days winters can get hard – we need to be prepeared.
Local radio carries adverts for 12kg bags of rock salt. Asda are selling large bags of what they call White Salt. Every supermarket has prominent displays of wellies to suit all tastes.
May Gurney, Britain’s biggest operator of road gritters, had 240 spreader lorries round the country. Now they have paid £65m to make that 320; they bought a company called TransLinc, originally a management buyout from Lincolnshire CC.
TransLinc’s current bosses get £2m each & will stay with the business.
Links
May Gurney acquires TransLinc
RJD Partners: TransLinc
Buy-In Management Buyout – BIMBO
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