What’s next for Yorkshire entrepreneur Jonathan Straight?

IT HAS been six months since founder of recycling products manufacturer Straight, Jonathan Straight, sold his AIM-listed business in a £10.7m deal to Irish firm One51.

“You know in your heart when it is time to move on,” he says. “I had been there for 21 years and the business had changed. I was pulling it in the direction of environmental impacts but in order to be able to do that, the business had to be making a lot of money, but it wasn’t. It had become out of favour with the city because we w... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...