Building the future: In a former industrial yard, reached via a gated alleyway in Leith, the future is being forged by a small group of millennials with big ideas on how the economy should be shaped. FX Group is putting itself at the forefront of leadership programmes and is drawing on an already impressive track […]
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Interview: Andrew Murphy, retailer
Mind the gap: If you want to draw an audience it never does any harm to choose your venue carefully. Harvey Nichols, the cutely named Forth Floor, posh nosh and prosecco. More than a hundred guests are there by six. It’s pretty much a captive audience for Andrew Murphy who’s got a speech to deliver […]
Interview: Robin McGregor, golf developer
Course of action: To the unaware it may look like any other golf course, but for Robin McGregor the nine holes circled by Musselburgh racecourse are a piece of Scotland’s neglected sporting history. There is documented evidence that golf was played at the links in 1672, and it is reputed that in 1567 Mary Queen […]
Interview: Jacob de Geer, iZettle
The end of cash: Jacob de Geer has arrived in Edinburgh with no money. Or at least no cash. Not even enough to buy a pint or get a bus. In fact he’s not carried any cash for eight months. It’s not surprising, really. In his native Sweden cash is becoming a bit quaint. Many […]
Interview: Andrew Duncan, SwarmOnline
Buzzing with energy: Clients and other business associates gathered to mark the official opening of Andrew Duncan’s latest technology adventure perhaps not realising that it was never meant to be like this. As a young boy at Glasgow High School, Duncan had prepared himself for a career in law, though at university he went off that idea […]