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www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com MEMBER NEWS
RSPB and The Famous Grouse celebrate 10 years
RSPB Scotland and The Famous Grouse recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of a partnership forged by the launch of Black Grouse Whisky in 2008. Recently renamed The Famous Grouse Smoky Black, the whisky took its inspiration from the enigmatic black grouse, a species found across Northern England, Wales and Scotland. Combining The Famous Grouse with a rare peated version of Glenturret Single Malt, from Scotland’s oldest working distillery, the whisky is a smooth, peaty and aromatic blend. Originally, 50p from every bottle sold was donated to black grouse conservation and the relationship has raised more than £650,000 to date. These donations have helped conserve this species, enabling the RSPB to deliver work across seven reserves. SInce 2008, the Famous Grouse partnership has enabled the charity to deliver work across 85,000 acres of land including planting 185,000 trees, marking deer fences to avoid collisions and the mowing of 75 acres of heather.
Malcolm
Buchanan, Chair of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Scottish Board and Celia Sinclair, Chair of Willow Tea Room Trust
Royal Bank of Scotland unveils design of new £20
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Eyecademy, the Glasgow-based data, analytics and visualisation company has ended 2018 on a high note, after a record year of performance and transformation for the company. Over the last decade, the market for data and analysis services has grown exponentially, with 90 per cent of the world’s data being created over the last two years. Seeing a gap in the market to provide real specialists who understand both the full data journey and how to create solutions for business users, Eyecademy expanded from knowledge transfer
oyal Bank of Scotland has unveiled the design of its first £20 polymer note at one of Scotland’s most iconic buildings.
The note, which features the image
of Scottish entrepreneur Kate Cranston, was revealed at her legendary tearoom in Glasgow, Mackintosh at the Willow. Designed in partnership with leading
Scottish arts organisations and designers including Graven Images, Nile, Stucco, Timorous Beasties, O’Street and the Glasgow School of Art, the note, which will enter circulation in 2020, will be the first £20 Scottish banknote to feature a woman other than the Queen, on its front.
Data growth drives expansion and new roles
and training to providing consultancy across the UK. Moving to the larger premises of
newly-renovated 201 West George Street in February in preparation for its expansion, Eyecademy has already seen an extension in its client base. Eyecademy’s plans for further
growth are now in place following the hire of two new executives and an additional ten employees. The new executives come as part of a further three-year planned expansion that will see the business double in size to more than 60 full time staff by 2020.
The £20 is the third in a series of ‘Fabric of Nature’ themed notes made from a De La Rue’s Safeguard® polymer material and will also contain a variety of new security features, making it difficult to counterfeit but easy to authenticate. The choice of Kate Cranston to feature on the £20 note was taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Scottish Board. In keeping with the Fabric of Nature theme, the new £20 features illustrations of red squirrels on its reverse and also features the blaeberry fruit. It also includes extracts from 16th century Scottish poet Mark Alexander Boyd’s work, Cupid and Venus.
Eyecademy’s premises at 201 West George Street
© Shaun Nield
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