Obituaries

‘A hill farmer at heart’: entrepreneur who built up £80m firm dies

Sir John Campbell, who has died aged 90, was based for most of his life at Glenrath in Peebleshire’s Manor Valley. From small beginnings there, he and his wife Cathy, later joined by their family, built up one of Britain’s largest and most successful egg-laying and packing businesses. Its annual turnover now exceeds £80m and it produces and packs the daily production from around two million hens. With 240 employees, Glenrath is now the biggest private employer in the Scottish Borders.