Blue2's name gave a head start
WE always like cases of nominative determinism in the business world so were delighted to find one close to home.
The contract for the revamp of the Rangers Football Club website has been out to tender for several months.
There were said to have been pitches from companies around the UK but the eventual winner – which is based in Broughty Ferry – proved to have something the others didn’t. We can’t help but feel being called Blue2 might have provided a head start.
Ex-military man at JP Morgan
JP Morgan was a founder of the 175-company 300,000 Jobs Mission aimed at recruiting US service veterans.
The idea is slowly crossing the Atlantic, and at the Association of Investment Companies dinner in Edinburgh last week was Luke Mason, 29, a Yorkshire Regiment officer injured in Afghanistan in 2012 and awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.
After two years in rehabilitation at Headley Court, he was accepted for the officers internship programme at JP Morgan and last January was hired as a marketing executive. He said: “Apart from some pain issues the main one has been how to add value, but I'm getting there.”
Whisky industry's Beatlemania
IT was the kind of greeting that the likes of Bono or Taylor Swift are accustomed to.
Word reaches us that Charles MacLean, esteemed whisky writer and author of several revered books on the water of life, was treated like rock royalty when he attended a recent trade show in China.
Chris Miller, head export honcho of Craft Beer Clan of Scotland, tells us the bold Charlie was besieged by whisky buffs clambering for autographs.
It is probably the closest thing the industry gets to Beatlemania.
Golf club's profits well below par
LOCH Lomond Golf Club is so used to swimming in debt that even its nine-strong board of directors cannot see a profit when it is teed up for them.
Yes, the elite club still owes £35.6m to its Cayman Islands parent company, and £2.2m to Lloyds, and it made a £1m operating loss, and a £1.1m pre-tax loss last year.
But the directors’ report claims that the underlying operating profit of £525,449 compares with a loss in 2013 of £323,455 – which was in fact a profit.
Hotel boasts a palace of gin
THE family who own Crieff Hydro are slowly but surely putting their mark on Peebles Hydro, the stately hotel they acquired alongside sister property the Park Hotel in the Borders town last year.
Chief executive Stephen Leckie writes in a letter to guests that work to restore the hotel to its former glory after years of “remote management” will be take time.
But The Bottom Line can reveal that one noteworthy operational change is already going down a storm with guests. The hotel bar now includes its very own gin palace – or gin greenhouse, to be more precise – crammed with nearly 90 types of mother’s fabulous ruin.
We’d humbly suggest it could be a contender for the next shed of the year title.
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