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JCB Succession Underway After Making Founder’s Grandson Co-Chair

Bloomberg27 September 2026, 23:01 UTCUnited Kingdom

J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd. said that George Bamford will become joint chairman of the company alongside his father, marking the first change at the top of one of the UK’s biggest private companies in more than 50 years.

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