Since 1989 the Princes’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT) has helped more than three hundred of Argyll’s young people to set up and continue in business. On Monday 15th September the PSYBT is holding an Awards Ceremony at Kilmory in Lochgilphead, celebrating the achievements of the finalists in the Trust’s 2008 Regional Business Awards. The [...]
It would be hard to send a more defensive signal than Vestas’s announcement that it is prepared to meet local representatives - if they travel to the company HQ in Denmark. Key players in the race to retrieve something from the company’s withdrawal from Campbeltown met yesterday in emergency session. Representatives from Argyll and Bute [...]
The announcement yesterday that Vestas was to close its subsidiary company’s operations in wind turbine tower manufacture at Campbeltown was accompanied by news that it is to shift its investment to a development plant in the Isle of Wight. In our earlier piece on this matter we drew attention to the fact that Vestas’s presence [...]
The Danish owners of the Vestas wind turbine tower manufacturing business at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre have just announced that they are to close the facility because it is not making a profit. The announcement comes at a time when Vestas has declared a 67% rise in orders in the last year. The [...]
A virus and unusual water states has left the French oyster industry with mortality rates ranging from 40% - 100% according to area. Seven billion oysters are dead or dying. The inevitable deficit in supply to the French market is now thought likely to reach around 40,000 tonnes per annum. The silver lining in this [...]
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is running a one-day event on Friday 13th June, focusing on developing a strategic use of the internet to maximise international trade and business. The event is free to businesses and organisations based in the Highlands and Islands whic, of course includes Argyll. Offered as part of HIE’s International Trade [...]
