Sandman Wood
Family-owned wealth manager McInroy & Wood has a reputation as one of East Lothian’s standout employers.
It regularly welcomes work experience teenagers to the impressive glass and wood headquarters set in rolling countryside near Haddington, and pays in seven per cent of salary to every employee's pension regardless of whether they contribute.
But what the firm does is still a mystery to the children of director Tim Wood, son of co-founder Victor. When finally asked by Abbey, 10, and Rory, 8, what he really did for a living, dad came up with: "I help people sleep at night."
Spirit of 66
STAYING with cars, we were tickled by a competition run by People’s Ford, the Ford car dealer chaired by Brian Gilda, to commemorate the launch of the 66 licence plate.
The car retailer, which has seven branches across Scotland, Liverpool and Lancashire, invited Twitter followers to post their funniest #66 suggestions.
To get things started, Peoples Ford tweeted the picture below. For those unfamiliar with the world of Harry Potter, Muggles is the disparaging term used by wizards in the books for humans.
Easy on the knees
“WHAT you need to know about your knees.”
That was the arresting statement which greeted The Bottom Line was it scrolled through the stream of emails besieging our inbox earlier last week.
Given our distance running days would appear to be well and truly behind us, it seemed like a direct message about the condition of our ageing joints.
Turns out the missive was from Slingsby, the workplace equipment provider, highlighting the effects which knee injuries have on huge numbers of manual workers and trade people.
And one of the most common complaints, Slingsby notes, is so-called Housemaid’s Knee or bursitis, sustained by workers who spend a long time kneeling down.
“Any age group can be affected by knee injuries and generally it’s easier to prevent these problems than cure them,” says the firm’s operations director Dominic Slingsby. “The knee is an extremely complex joint and it has to be looked after because once bursitis sets in, it can be very uncomfortable and last a long time.”
We must tell the editor that the next time we’re shining his shoes.
The whole truth
EDINBURGH beer firm Innis & Gunn is giving BrewDog a serious run for its money when it comes to marketing gimmicks these days.
Just weeks after placing one of its beers in a time capsule, I&G has dispatched some bottles of what it claims to be the world’s first truth-telling beer to the two candidates in the US presidential election.
The limited edition Smoke & Mirrors, we are told, has been brewed with a truth serum, meaning that no lies will pass from the drinker’s lips after the first sip.
The playful stunt, the beer firm says, is to remind Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton of the importance of truthful campaigning as the countdown to November’s election gathers pace.
I&G founder Dougal Sharp said: “Scotland is a straight-talking nation and we’re looking forward to bringing a little part of our Scottish candidness over to the States."
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