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Hearty congratulations are due to Keith Anderson, Chief Executive at the Port of Leith Housing Association and a member of Gary Weston’s Vistage group, after the work of his organisation was recognised recently at the third annual Scottish Home Awards.
The awards, sponsored by ros.gov.uk, are run in partnership with house builders, sponsors and an expert judging panel to recognise the best in ne
CBI Scotland, which represents 26,000 Scottish businesses, has just launched its own manifesto in the run up to the Holyrood elections in 2011. The headline proposal is that ‘government and public authorities should become commissioners of services, outsourcing the delivery of services to the private and not-for-profit sectors.’ Recently, some commentators see this Tom Miers article in The Herald, have warned that the imminent public sector cuts will impact heavily on private sector contractors. CBI Scotland’s
Paul Pinson is to join Alastair Muir and Gary Weston as a Vistage Scotland Chairman.
Having recently completed his training at the Vistage Global HQ in San Diego and at the UK headquarters in Winchester, Paul aims to launch a new Vistage group in Edinburgh in early November.
The search for new group members is already underway but the process will culminate in an introductory event hosted by Paul in late September.
‘The event will introduce people to Vistage and demonstrate the value of Vistage membership and the benefits
It’s only Tuesday as I write and already this week’s economics and business news offers wildly differing predictions for Scotland’s future. At the weekend, The Ernst and Young Item Club released a report which predicted that Scotland’s economy should start to pick up in 2011 but that a weak export base and public sector cuts are likely to mean that the country will under perform the rest of the UK. On Monday, the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde did little to lighten the outlook with a survey which suggested that Scotland’s rate of business start-ups, already low compared to
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You have to admire the chutzpah of Andy Inglis, an East Lothian-based entrepreneur, who has hit upon the idea of bottling Hebridean seawater and selling it to chefs at £4.95 for three litres.
Branded as Acquamara, the water comes from around the island of Berneray. Inglis purifies it and bottles it before selling it on.
It is supposed to enhance the flavour of seafood cooked using it and Inglis has even managed to put a health conscious spin on the stuff.
Top chefs such as Roy Brett of Edinburgh
The weekend before last, Douglas Fraser, the business and economy editor at BBC Scotland, wrote a thought-provoking piece on public and private sector pay in Scotland. It is based on a recent paper by Professor David Bell of Stirling University and it makes for interesting reading on the day that George Osborne has announced a potential £332 million cut in the amount of Scottish public spending. The BBC’s Politics Show covers some of the same ground in a discussion between Professor
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