Keeping it in the family: the bosses combining heritage with innovation

FAMILY BUSINESSES Keeping it in the family: the bosses combining heritage with innovation Emily Palmer Ramus only became chief executive of the family-owned brewer Palmers last month and she is already thinking about what she will leave to her young daughter, Josie. The £9.7 million-turnover Bridport-based business traces its roots back to 1794 and Palmer Ramus, 32, is aware that a key part of the leadership role is to pass on the company in as good a shape as she received it. The former Rothschild banker plans to “hand over to my daughter Josie a business that is equally well invested,” she said, and to make sure “we still have an historic brewhouse that is in great shape, brewing award winning beer, and a portfolio of award-winning pubs.” It will be the “evolution” rather than revolution of the