McVicar took the first steps on his current path when he tinkered with a tractor as a boy. The visitor, whose business is based on trade with an Irish company, remarked that he had not yet decided how to vote. Alarm bells sounded for McVicar, whose company makes a quarter of its €200m turnover in the UK. Straight after the meeting, he hedged a big chunk of the company’s multimillion-euro cash balances at 77p to the euro. When the referendum result the next day confirmed…

Source: The Times October 08, 2016 23:01 UTC