SCOTTISH Enterprise chief executive Lena Wilson has been re-elected as a non-executive director of materials testing business Intertek with near unanimous support.
Shareholders who voted at the company's annual general meeting in London gave 99.86 per cent backing to Ms Wilson staying on the board.
Ms Wilson, one of Scotland's best paid public servants with a basic salary of £203,000, has faced criticism since taking on the part time role at Intertek in 2012.
The Intertek annual report showed she received a fee of £68,000 for her role with the FTSE business. She got £58,000 for her basic duties as a non-executive director along with a further £10,000 for being a member of the company's audit and risk committee.
It was the final Intertek AGM for chief executive Wolfhart Hauser, who is soon to become chairman at FirstGroup.
Separately, Intertek said it had seen revenue rise 3.3 per cent in the first four months of the year helped by positive foreign exchange movements.
Underlying organic revenue growth came in at 1.9 per cent.
The company said there had been lower demand for oil and gas capital projects along with price reduction demands from clients.
However business assurance and the food and agriculture divisions experienced strong growth in the period.
Commodities also grew in spite of weak conditions in the minerals market.
There were rises in consumer and electrical and consumer goods while the rate of increase in the chemicals and pharma division was said to be more modest.
Mr Hauser said: "We continued to see good growth in our key product-related business lines, as well as a number of other areas including our cargo trade flow business and food & agri. "As anticipated, market conditions in oil and gas capex and minerals remained weak, reducing the overall growth rate in the period."
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