Cracking the hospitality code Julie Grieve has just flown back into Edinburgh from London where her travel technology business had been exhibiting at a trade show and conference. It was an important event, helping to raise the company’s profile ahead of what promises to be another year of transition. She is due at another meeting […]
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Interview: Linda Scott, West Lothian Chamber
New thinking on the business menu Linda Scott is taking a break after a morning spent at Holyrood being grilled by MSPs seeking her views on the Scottish economy and the enterprise network. She has travelled into Edinburgh from her base at the West Lothian Chamber of Commerce in Livingston and thinks she at least […]
Interview: Scott Mackenzie, Ventient Energy
Adding to Scotland’s power play A new name on Scotland’s corporate register will not just add to the stock of recently-formed companies, it marks the creation of a potential powerhouse. Ventient Energy, which boasts the title of third largest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK, will be run from inconspicuous offices in the […]
Airport chief urges companies to aim high
Celebration of excellence Edinburgh Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar urged businesses in West Lothian to aim high to realise their potential when he addressed the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Excellence Awards dinner. Mr Dewar, guest speaker, said businesses in the area had the huge benefit on their doorstep of a major international airport opening […]
MSPs join business staff to help homeless
Sleep in the Park Three government ministers, five creative agencies and a building company are among the latest to pledge support to a campaign to end homelessness in Scotland. Deputy First Minister John Swinney, Communities minister Angela Constance and Kevin Stewart, minister for housing, have agreed to take part in Social Bite’s Sleep in the […]