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As Clinton Cards posts results, Nicola Harrison talks to the group managing director about growing up in the business and what the year ahead holds.Want to know more about Clinton Cards?
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Clinton Lewin was just seven years old when his dad founded and named the family greetings cards business after him.
Lewin, now group managing director of Clinton Cards, says he didn't pay much attention to his new-found fame as a young lad, but now feels proud to have his name above the door. He enjoys being part of the family-run business - which was due to update as Retail Week went to press - set up by his father, chairman and chief executive Don Lewin.
He says: "I enjoy the business, and the fact it's a family business enables me to have a closeness with it."
But he adds it is not always plain sailing working for your father. "As with any people you work with, there are high and low points. We...