Limited giveaway
Limited giveaway
IN need of an iPad? Lloyds Bank is "giving away" an iPad mini to first-time buyers and home movers, "so they can be online as soon as they are in their new home".
Or rather, within 10 days of moving in, according to the small print. And if you are a shared equity, help to buy, or shared ownership first-time buyer, you are excluded.
Buy to let mortgages don't count either. And it only lasts until November 27. But if you are still interested, all you have to do is buy a new house.
A step too far?
WE know businesses love to sponsor sporting clubs and events but an official Manchester United branded tyre seems a step too far even if the £59.95 price tag being charged by Apollo isn't exorbitantly steep.
Sadly we don't think this idea will translate into Scotland all that well.
Can you imagine how much you would have to pay enterprising youngsters to mind your car at the football if your team's name was on the wheels?
Perfect timing
STEPHEN Johnstone is not a man to do things by halves.
The Edinburgh-based entrepreneur completed a deal to buy a majority shareholding in a business a week before heading off on honeymoon.
Speaking to The Bottom Line from Argentina, he said it was "great timing, considering I had my honeymoon booked for the third of October.
"When you are buying a business you can never dictate the exact date [a deal will be completed]. You just have to go with the whole process."
Golf view
THE people behind the £3 million Kingsbarns Distillery in Fife are hoping to attract golf fans who flock to the hallowed links of St Andrews when its visitor centre opens.
Indeed, William Wemyss, chairman of the Wemyss Development, said you can see the 14th green of the nearby Kingsbarns course from the 19th century - but not the flag.
He said: "I think you need a ladder - if you poke your head out of the top of the distillery roof you'd be able to see it!"
On a mission
JUDGING by the photographs shared on social media a Scottish craft beer delegation have been having a fine time in North America. The group of companies - including Eden, WEST, Loch Ness, Fyne Ales and the Craft Beer Clan of Scotland - appear to be be spending time either inside breweries or drinking beer.
We can only hope the jet lag on the journey home is more forgiving than the hangover.
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