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Councils may sell off high-profit business

A council-owned business with a turnover of £50m a year could be sold off to ease local government finances.

By Jamie Hailstone | 29 June 2011

A council-owned business with a turnover of £50m a year could be sold off to ease local government finances.

Shrewsbury-based office stationary firm, West Mercia Supplies, which employs 100 people, could be privatised in the autumn.

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