Jacks of all trades
GETTING a new business off and running is never easy, even in sectors as buoyant as craft brewing and distilling in Scotland.
Simon Hannah, boss of Glasgow wholesaler JW Filshill, is working with a range Scots brewers and distillers breaking into the export market through the firm’s Craft Beer Clan of Scotland division.
Mr Hannah said: “It’s a constant challenge with new businesses. The guy that’s making the beer has got his head in the mashtun and he’s responsible for driving the forklift, ordering all the stuff and managing the cash flow and all sorts of different things. They are very busy people these guys.”
Charity total climbs
WE doff our cap to 13 staff from Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based wrap platform, for completing the Three Peaks challenge.
The intrepid bunch climbed the UK’s three highest mountains – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon – to raise £4,000 for the Joshua Nolan Foundation.
It brings to more than £24,000 the amount Nucleus has raised for its partner charity, which aims to reduce the number of suicides in Scotland, since the start of the year.
Chief technology officer Andrew Smith, who took part in the challenge, said: “I’m really proud of all our staff who took part in this daunting test."
Corporate kits
WE have no doubt that fancy footwork is sometimes required in the world of corporation communications.
But the founders of Charlotte Street Partners encountered a different branch of the discipline when they presented a new set of kits to Hutchison Vale, the amateur Edinburgh football club.
Andrew Wilson and Malcolm Robertson donated the Joma strips as part of their firm’s sponsorship of the 75 year old club. They’re pictured here admiring the skills of the clubs 2007 team, flanking former Hutchie, Hibs and Hearts player Michael Stewart, and current coach Iain Mcdonald.
Steaming accountants
EVEN accountants like to have fun. We hear professional body ICAS held its latest event for members on board famous Clyde vessel the Waverley at the weekend.
According to ICAS, the occasion allowed president Jim Pettigrew the chance to celebrate his love for the world’s accountancy body and passion for the world’s last operational sea-going paddle steamer. Some 400 members were on board for the cruise along the Clyde to Dumbarton Rock.
The news reminded The Bottom Line of the memorable occasion a leading financial services chief executive led a conga around the famous old vessel.
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