Editorial Who saw that coming?

Well, thankfully January is finally over (with most of my resolutions already broken) and 2023 feels like it now fully underway.

That said, I’m sure many of you out there in the IDC have been hard at it already, not least the folks at Central National Gottesman and S.P. Richards, who win ID’s highly coveted (and newly invented) Surprise Move of the Month Award.

While it was reasonably well known that something was going to give at SP, I think it is fair to say the exact nature of this deal came out of the blue for most commentators.

As our news story on page 16 suggests, reaction from within the IDC has, on the whole, been positive and I add a cautious echo to those sentiments.

CNG is a well-established, well-respected company with nearly 140 years of experience. It also, perhaps more importantly, brings financial stability (without any need to answer Wall Street); an impressive