Caravan carry-on: turning around a family business

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Tue, 30/08/2005 - 09:06 5270

Working in a family-owned company has its charms. But uncertainties regarding eventual succession can take their toll on innovation and morale. Sometimes, it takes a new owner, with new ideas, to breath life into an old company. John Moorhouse, managing director of Harrington's Caravans, tells AccountingWEB how, after 15 years of keeping things ticking along, he's now raring to go.

Harrington's is a family-owned business, established in Lancashire in the 1930s, (a golden age for caravanning, when the roads where delightfully free...

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