Marine Harvest buys Lewis Salmon – and boasts of fish health?
A week ago, on 4th February, the Stornoway Gazette announced that Marine Harvest Scotland, part of the world’s biggest aquaculture combine, had bought Western Isles based Lewis Salmon ‘as part of its...
View ArticleAcquisition sees Actual Reality and Ardentinny Outdoor Education Centre secure
Actual Reality is the not-for-profit company that has been running Castle Toward and Ardentinny outdoor education centres since the break-up of Strathclyde Regional Council in 1996.At the end of June...
View ArticleWilliams F1 team pursues Icelandic bank for default on acquisition and...
The financial avalanche of 2008 rumbles on – now tumbling on to the glamorous international race tracks of Formula 1.A case went to trial in Iceland on Friday last, 15th February, brought by the...
View ArticleCowal community buys 600 hectare Stronafian Forest
In the biggest community forest land purchase Argyll has see since Mull Community Woodland Ltd bought 800 hectares in 2005, the unified communities of Colintraive and Glendaruel in south west Cowal,...
View ArticleJura sustainability boost with £650k from Big Lottery Scotland
Big Lottery Fund Scotland has just announced – 27th February – its latest package of funding worth over £3.3 million to six projects across Scotland.Amongst the six is the Isle of Jura Development...
View Article‘Bedroom Tax’ comes into force today as Government defends its ‘fairness’
What is fair about people in social housing being prevented from having family and friends to stay over?What is fair about someone who has lived in what is their home for years, finding that they have...
View ArticleWest Coast Motors buys into Mull
Campbeltown-based West Coast Motors has announceed that it has acquired Bowman’s Tours, the Mull-based bus and coach tour operator.This has been achieved in a deal that will ensure continuity for staff...
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West Coast Motors celebrate Mull connection with the first open topper tour
West Coast Motors, the long established Argyll-based family-owned bus company business, operating across Argyll and the Isles and Glasgow, has achieved two recent service developments.One is its...
View ArticleHope for regeneration of Ardyne Point
Cowal may hope for regeneration of some kind for the Ardyne Point site in south Cowal, left without due restitution by Sir Robert McAlpine when the company effectively abandoned it after its function...
View ArticleTwo new management appointments at Stagecoach UK Coach Division
One of the biggest entrepreneurial Scottish successes in recent times has been the international development of the Stagecoach Group founded, driven and steered by Brian Souter.The transport group has...
View ArticleEC clears Marine Harvest’s Marpol acquisition – on condition of sale of...
The proposed acquisition of Poland’s farmed salmon processor, Marpol, the biggest in the world – by Marine Harvest, the biggest salmon farmer in the European Economic Area [EEA], Marine Harvest, was...
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New coaching acquisition for West Coast Motors
Argyll’s West Coast Motors has expanded its business again in the acquisition of Glasgow-based Fairline Coaches.This acquisition will allow West Coast Motors in Argyll, as well as other divisions...
View ArticleJob creation as NW Mull Community Woodland Company invests in woodchip supplier
In an exemplary strategic business initiative, North West Mull Community Woodland Company Ltd, has purchased island based woodchip supplier, Crannich Woodfuel, to continue the expansion of their...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The North Sea
This is the third in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
View ArticleClever documentary calendar for West Coast Motors for 2014
Campbeltown headquartered West Coast Motors, one of the private sector economic drivers of Argyll, has just published its 2014 calendar.Of course the photographs are stunning, in its A3 portrait format...
View ArticleFOI documents on Castle Toward support Actual Reality’s allegations against...
Documents received by For Argyll from Argyll and Bute Council on 23rd December 2013 under Freedom of Information legislation and relating to Castle Toward and Actual Reality Learning and Leadership...
View ArticleCentrica’s distancing from North Sea supports For Argyll analyses of oil and...
Gas giant Centrica has announced a reshaping of its investment strategy, the detail of which underlines the accuracy of the published analyses resulting from For Argyll’s Autumn 2013 sustained research...
View ArticleExponent acquires assets of Loch Lomond Distillery Company, including...
Exponent Private Equity [Exponent], a private equity firm specialising in UK business investments, has today, 3rd March 2014, announced its acquisition of the assets of The Loch Lomond Distillery...
View ArticleKilfinan Community Forest aims to buy another 432 hectares from Forestry...
Kilfinan Community Forest is plans to expand its successful and resourceful enterprise in buying an additional 432ha of forest from Forestry Commission Scotland [FCS] on behalf of the Kilfinan...
View ArticleCompromised Greens ask questions of Scottish Government on future of wave...
The Scottish Greens are a muted force these days, having thrown their lot in willy nilly with the SNP and the separatist movement – at the cost of their integrity in deciding to say nothing to warn...
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