In this issue of Greater Manchester Chamber’s member magazine I secured an exclusive front cover interview through my contacts with Co-op Group Chief Executive Steve Murrells.

In a very candid interview Steve talked in depth about why the mutual model still matters. The issue also featured a special report on Manchester’s fast-growing gin economy where I interviewed a number of fast-growing companies which have capitalised on the growth of the market. And I also took a personal trip down memory lane and wrote about the revival of Rochdale, the town where I spent three years in my first job in newspaper journalism in the early 1990s.