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Welsh chef Gary Lewis is not afraid of a challenge. He runs two catering operations on the West Coast. In Renfrew, his Gel Cuisine Restaurant specialises in Cajun food, a cuisine he knows well after spending four years working in New Orleans. In Paisley, his Station Lounge restaurant bar has more of a globe-trotting menu. Both operations serve Welsh haggis pakora. Perhaps slightly cheekily for a Welshman working in Scotland, the entries for the Welsh haggis pakora on Gary’s menus advise customers that they should be careful not to confuse the dish with ‘its foreign counterpart’. Selling haggis to Scottish customers, even Welsh haggis pakoras, may not be up there with selling coals to Newcastle but Gary’s chutzpah is still considerable.
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Artisan Scottish beer makers BrewDog are in the news at the moment after launching a rather unusual new beer yesterday.
Called The End of History, it’s a 55%ABV Belgian style beer which retails at £500 for a 330ml bottle. The Fraserburgh-based brewers have produced just twelve bottles. Gruesomely, each bottle comes inside a stuffed animal. Seven stoats, four squirrels and one hare, to be precise. According to BrewDog, the animals used were all roadkill.
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Worried readers buy more newspapers than contented readers as they try to keep up with events. As a result, newspapers tend to focus on the gloom more readily than any rays of sunshine. Even so, today’s Scottish newspapers make particularly bleak reading. According to the headline of a double page spread in The Scotsman, things aren’t looking rosy for the economy north of the border. ‘Scotland on course for perfect double dip storm’ is the cheery headline. The first par follows up with the assertion that the feared double dip could come about because ‘the country’s economy failed to grow during the first three months of the year’.
Award-winning professional speaker Larry King will give a talk on Entrepreneurial Team Building at Vistage Scotland’s next Open Day. Held in the Merchants Hall on Edinburgh’s Hanover Street on Tuesday 14 September, this fast-paced, practical session focuses on major areas for building a high-performance work team. These areas are: • The needs of entrepreneurial companies • The candid assessment of the current team • The roles of the team leader and team member • The vision for the team • The delegation of leadership tasks • The methods for building the team • The coaching skills needed to motivate the team • The personal commitments necessary for team change Larry King is an internationally respected speaker and CEO advi
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A new survey released today by the Institute of Directors (IoD) indicates that businesses are still having difficulty accessing finance from their banks despite a fall in decline rates. According to the survey:
- 1 in 3 firms that applied for finance in the time period 1 January 2010 – June 2010 were declined by their bank.
- There is evidence that lending criteria have become more restrictive with regard to the amount of security requested by banks.
