Hello Rainmakers,
As colourful entrepreneurs go, Alan Hardy is right up there.
Some notable successes - tick, a complex administration - tick, football club ownership - tick, and now a patient and successful sale of a prize local asset in the leisure industry - The Nottinghamshire golf and country club - to a sector aggregator.
Sam Metcalf met up with him.
Love him or loathe him, Alan Hardy is a survivor. The uber-controversial one-time owner of Notts County (and more on that later) last week brought down the curtain on a turbulent - yet somehow successful - era by selling that most rare of businesses: a successful golf and country club.
