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E164 Punchline Talks! With Lynette Barrett, Chris Pockett, Alan Dane and Clare Honeyfield

Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Friday's national and regional newspapers, and discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses.

Finally, they round off by picking the stories that have caught their eye in this week's Punchline-Gloucester.com.

The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors. 

This week's panel of experts were:

Chris Pockett - head of communications at Renishaw. The engineering giant is Gloucestershire's largest privately owned employer, with a turnover approaching £700 million and employing more than 2,600 people across two sites in the county. We find out from Chris how the company has fared over the past 12 months, its recruitment and its place in this year's Paris Olympics.

Clare Honeyfield - co-owner and founder of Made in Stroud, which started out as a series of makers' markets in 1991. Now the retail shop on Kendrick Street is the destination for unique artisanal gifts. Clare believes Stroud is becoming a tourist hotspot - and we'll find out why and how the business was started and how she sources her products lines.

Alan Dane - newly appointed CEO of SGS Academy Trust (SGSAT) sponsored by South Gloucestershire & Stroud College, which is currently made up of three schools: Forest High; Berkeley Green UTC; and Pegasus School, in Patchway, South Gloucestershire. The trust has a turnover of £8 million and 150 staff educating 800 pupils. We'll find out from him how it is all going and what his plans are to take them to the next level.

Lynette Barrett - chief executive of Gloucestershire-based charity National Star, which supports young people with complex disabilities. National Star has an average annual turnover of £46 million and employs more than 1,250 full and part-time staff. We find out about their fundraising and much, much more.

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