Football cheer
Bowleven’s chief executive, Kevin Hart, has said the company is being cheered on in its hunt for gas in soccer-mad Cameroon, where the government is anxious to get more generating capacity in place. He believes official excitement about the potential for new sources of gas-fired power generation may have something to do with the fact Cameroon has been chosen to host the African Cup of Nations football tournament in 2019. “They don’t really want the floodlights going off,” Mr Hart told Edinburgh-based Bowleven’s general meeting.
School is not out
Clydesdale Bank chief executive David Duffy has a certain way with words that occasionaly ventures beyond the bland corporate speak loved by so many bosses.
Asked this week how staff were reacting to the bank’s forthcoming flotation and independence from National Australia Bank the Irishman said: “What that means for them is not just being let out of school early.”
He did go on to be bit more corporate by pointing out investments in technology and adding new people which, according to him, has left the workforce “extremely motivated and upbeat” ahead of the initial public offering.
Time served
When ANM Group does long service awards it certainly doesn’t skimp. The agricultural business recently honoured nine staff with a combined service of 362 years.
Topping the list was Alice Stuart, currently printing and stationery supervisor, who is retiring this week after 50 years with the Inverurie company.
She joined as an office junior in 1966 at what was then Scotland’s largest egg packing station at the central mart in Aberdeen.
Having described the technological changes she has seen as “phenomenal and challenging” Ms Stuart outlined some of the ambitions for her retirement.
She said: “I am very much looking forward to getting back into some voluntary work as well as spending some time at home, working on the garden and finally putting up the wallpaper I bought for my lounge ten years ago.”
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