by johnireland | Articles
What Changed in November 2025 Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) have been one of the fastest-growing exit routes for UK business owners since their introduction in 2014. Inspired by the John Lewis Partnership model, EOTs allow owners to sell their company to a trust...
by johnireland | Business Builder
The Succession Wave Is Real Nearly a third of UK SME owners aged 43 and over plan to sell within five years. That is roughly 58,000 mid-sized businesses approaching an ownership change, all at a time when the tax cost of selling or passing on a business has increased...
by johnireland | Articles
The Numbers Behind the Wave A quiet but significant shift is taking place across the UK’s small and medium-sized business landscape. According to the Generation EO study published in late 2023 by Ownership at Work and ThinCats, nearly a third of SME owners aged...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Complex organisations often create systems where responsibility becomes so fragmented that nobody truly controls outcomes. For business owners, this has direct relevance to succession, governance and long-term wealth preservation. Many successful businesses become...
by johnireland | Wellness Corner
Constant decision-making reduces strategic clarity over time. Many business owners delay important personal and estate planning decisions not because they lack awareness, but because mental bandwidth becomes permanently occupied by operational pressure....
