MADAM – Following on from your ‘State of the Trade’ debate (ATG No 2291), I would like to add my views concerning the advantages of the BADA merging with LAPADA.
I have a close, personal interest in the subject. My great-grandfather founded the BADA in 1918, as he considered that it was important for the trade to have an organisation that could speak as one voice to politicians and to give confidence to the general public that they would be buying from reputable and honest dealers.
Those two founding principles are, if anything, even more relevant today because of the threats we face.