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Precisely. Rumours affect those involved and without influence directly and that’s not playing cricket in my book. What will be will be and announced after those directly involved have been fully briefed. The “public” just have to wait until there is something to reveal or not as the case maybeMaybe but the rumours don’t entirely add up, according to rumour, they have bought Malpas out but NH dealers in their existing area are losing NH to them, if NH can take the franchise off dealers in some areas they could do likewise to Malpas, the only difference being RVT would then need to find premises in those areas.
Is Malpas for sale, I thought there was another generation coming into the buisness, I don’t know that much about them but they weren’t a buisness going nowhere, they have expanded quite a bit in my lifetime so I wouldn’t have thought NH would be looking to take the franchise off them but you never know.
It’s all good for internet and market gossip and speculation but none of us really know. But this dies affect people’s jobs and buisnesses, hopefully they all come out of this relatively ok, there’s a shortage of good workers on most sectors of ag so the employees shouldn’t have too much difficulty even if it means working on a different brand or for a different employer although uncertainty is never great.
As for the buisness owners things could be more worrying with the potential to lose their main franchise.