Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox For a business to shut all its stores and make more than 200 redundancies the move would normally be a sign of irreversible decline and systemic problems at the heart of the organisation.
However, Greater Manchester's musicMagpie defied convention in 2018, which its chief executive and co-founder has branded the "most emotionally difficult but easiest commercial decision" he has ever had to make, and has recently completed a float on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market and is worth more than £200m.
Steve Oliver, who set up the Stockport firm with Walter Gleeson, has spoken exclusively to BusinessLive about the company's journey from closing its stores,
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