The GBAs
all massively ingrained in the business. We’ve worked in mysterious ways for 18 years, throwing parties and creating artist studios and stuff no-one knows us for, but everyone thinks we’ve only been around for a few years. We’ve worked so hard in the arts and theatre industries and managed to create and build a lot over time. We have a lot more depth than people know us for,’’ said Meryl Gilbert, Commercial Manager, SWG3.
Finalists Battlefield Rest; Eusebi Deli; Loganair; Scottish Ballet and The SSE Hydro
Royal Bank of Scotland Award for Most Outstanding Business
Awards 2019. Each award means a lot to of us but winning Royal Bank of Scotland’s Most Outstanding Business in a field of fantastic and highly impressive businesses is a crowning achievement for Allied Vehicles Group so I’d like to thank our employees, without whom this wouldn’t be possible. I’d also like to thank the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow City Council for their incredible support over the years,” said Gerry Facenna, Owner, Allied Vehicles Group.
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner Ian Curle
Winner: Cameron Facenna, Manager, Allied Vehicles Group, presented by Alastair McLean, Director, Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland
Winner Allied Vehicles Group “It is a huge honour to have won three trophies at The Glasgow Business
Ian Curle, former CEO of Edrington, the international premium spirits company based in Glasgow, was recognised with the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ian’s colleague Graham Hutcheon collected the award on his behalf. The audience heard that Ian Curle joined the business in 1986 through Edrington’s subsidiary Lang Brothers, working in the finance department and becoming Group Operations Director in 1997 before succeeding Sir Ian Good as Chief Executive in 2004. He retired in March 2019 after 15 years in the role. He has been Chairman of the North British Distillery since 2002, is a former Chairman of the Scotch Whisky
Association, and is an advisor to the UK Board of Trade. Mr Curle’s stewardship of Edrington
transformed the business from a successful Scotch Whisky producer employing 900 people, to a leading premium spirits brand building company with 3000 employees. In that period, The Macallan became the world’s most valuable single malt, sitting at the top of a portfolio including Highland Park, The Glenrothes and The Famous Grouse.
During Mr Curle’s 15 years at the helm,
Edrington invested and developed a worldwide sales and distribution network of joint venture companies in Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Dominican Republic. Earlier this year he congratulated his team on the opening of the new distillery and brand home of The Macallan in Speyside. He was also instrumental in bringing the main executive offices back to central Glasgow. In responding to the award, Ian Curle said: “It was a great honour to receive this award from Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, and it came as a real surprise. I would like to thank my former colleagues in Edrington around the world and in the wider Scotch Whisky sector for helping me to enjoy a long and fulfilling career in this wonderful global industry.”
All Glasgow Business Awards 2019 pictures courtesy of Great Scot Photography
Graham Hutcheon collected the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
Award for Lifetime Achievement on behalf of Ian Curle, presented by Jim McHarg, President, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
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