{"id":653529,"date":"2026-06-23T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653529\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:50:11","slug":"no-financial-benefit-10-years-after-brexit-says-ceo-steve-rigby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653529\/","title":{"rendered":"No financial benefit 10 years after Brexit, says CEO Steve Rigby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While that didn&#8217;t happen, Rigby said six years after the UK left the EU, companies like his were still coming to terms with new trading conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rigby Group, which has its international headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon and a turnover of \u00a33.8bn, operates in nine countries and employs about 8,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also behind plans to build a gigapark at Coventry airport, which is owned by the firm, after ending flight operations earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rigby said despite the size of his company, because it operated in Europe, it had had to adapt to new trading conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we have today is quite a lot of inertia. Inertia in government, in businesses, as people catch up to what is the opportunity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a case of rebuilding your business, transforming your business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While that didn&#8217;t happen, Rigby said six years after the UK left the EU, companies like his were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}