It has been an independent, family-owned company since its founding in 1949.

For more than six generations, it has been a privately held and family-owned company.

"Whatever we do has always been for the future, this being a family-owned company," he said.

But you can't run a modern economy with family-owned companies and partnerships.

The £330m cash being paid makes this the biggest sale ever of a family-owned company.

But he was active in the family-owned company until a few months ago.

"All these smaller, family-owned companies are doing very well and expanding," he said.

This family-owned company has been in business for over 100 years.

He retired in January 1987, when his daughter took over the family-owned company.

That location has become its last stop - the company, still family-owned, closes for good at the end of the month.