2012 - St Andrews Business Club

David Lorimer

2nd December 201221st February 2017 sabc-admin

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 12 December 2012 at 7.45 am for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews.

The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person. As usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be welcome free of charge.

Our guest speaker will be David Lorimer, who will talk about Andrew Carnegie’s Story: Leadership, Success and Legacy – His Relevance to Management Development Today.

We are all familiar to some extent with the story of Andrew Carnegie, as being a highly successful Scottish-born businessman and as a noted philanthropist. The presentation will focus on the “Laws of Success” which he devised and which set out the key principles behind his achievements. These provide crucial lessons which we can learn and then apply to achieve success both in our professional and business careers.

David is a writer, lecturer and editor who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and has been Editor of Network Review for over 25 years (www.scimednet.org). He is also Chief Executive of Character Education Scotland (www.character-scotland.org.uk) and the originator of the Inspire-Aspire Values Poster Programme, which this year reached over 30,000 young people from more than 200 schools (www.inspire-aspire.org.uk).

Donald McLeod

1st November 201222nd February 2017 sabc-admin

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 7 November 2012 at 7.45 am for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews.

The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person.

Our guest speaker will be Donald McLeod, a retired highly notable IT specialist, who is currently lobbying the Scottish Government with regard to rural broadband.

Born on the island of Barra, Donald has gained degrees in Maths, Physics and IT. He is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), a member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and has spent his whole professional life in the IT industry –

• System analyst setting up national Giro service

• Philips Industries and Strathclyde Regional Council

• Britoil / BP becoming European IT Manager

• American Company Science Applications International Corporation

(SAIC) as UK general manger specialising in the oil industry

• Part owner and director of Extramed Ltd, Scottish software company

specialising in management systems for NHS

Some of the topics Donald will be covering are –

• Broadband – What it is

• Why it matters – relevance to business, individuals

• Broadband in the context of Internet systems

• Scottish Government initiatives and other developments

Dunhill Hospitality Suite

16th September 201211th February 2019 sabc-admin

We have been invited by Fife Chamber of Commerce to attend on 4 October 2012 as guests at the Dunhill Hospitality Suite on the Old Course, St Andrews at a special Business Breakfast in celebration of the Dunhill Links Golf Championship which is being played at St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie from 3rd

Major General Euan Loudon CBE, Chief Executive of St Andrews Links Trust will address us on the Business of Golf and How Business can work with the St Andrews Links Trust.

Euan has been at the helm of the Links Trust since early 2011 and took up this position following a successful period of being in charge of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Mr Loudon joined the army in 1974 and quickly rose through the ranks. He commanded the 1st Battalion, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, and in his final appointment, with the rank of major general, he was general officer commanding the army’s 2nd Division and governor of Edinburgh Castle.

In 1991, Mr Loudon was awarded the OBE for operational service in the Gulf as the chief of staff of the Desert Rats. In 2004 he was appointed CBE for operational service in Northern Ireland. He took up the position with the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2007. During his tenure the company achieved record profits in 2009 and was given the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade section.

The event will commence at 7.45am, with a light breakfast and refreshments and following presentations, discussion and networking the event will close at 9.15am. Guests will have the opportunity to remain on the Old Course for the remainder of the day to take in some of the excellent golf that will be on show free of charge. Full joining instructions including parking arrangements will be issued nearer the time to those who have confirmed their attendance.

There are eight places available which will be allocated on a first come first served basis – this is due to the restricted number of places available.

The Eden Brewery, Guardbridge

10th September 201222nd February 2017 sabc-admin

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 26 September 2012 at 6 pm at The Eden Brewery, Guardbridge.

As usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be welcome.

Our guest speaker will be Paul Miller of The Eden Brewery.

The Eden Brewery is a new micro-brewery located at the South West end of the old Papermill site at Guardbridge.

It is the first brewery to operate in the St Andrews area in over a hundred years and brewed its first beer on the site on 14th It will employ 8 people initially, 3 full time and 5 part time. The ‘head’ brewer Scott Gowans is a Heriot Watt Brew School graduate who has worked in Fullers & Adnams Breweries in England as well as Fyne Ales in Scotland.

Paul has worked for 30 years in various roles in brand development in the drinks industry (with Diageo, Glenmorangie and Molson Coors) and latterly advised the government on its alcohol policy (without doubt his most frustrating job!).

As well as a core range of craft beers the brewery will offer a specialisation in whisky and rum cask matured beers and will have a very high percentage of locally grown barley (80%) in most recipes.

The brewery will focus on very small batch production, it will sell 50% of it’s beer in cask form to Pubs and Hotels and the balance in bottles. It is aiming to cask and bottle all its production onsite.

There is ample parking adjacent to the brewery onsite. Please meet at 5.45 pm for 6 pm. Enter via south entrance to Papermill on Main Street and follow signs to the left where there will be someone to meet with you and escort you into the brewery.

Hill of Tarvit House Visit

14th August 201222nd February 2017 sabc-admin

I am pleased to announce the first event in the Club’s programme for the second half of 2012.

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 21 August 2012 at 6 pm when we have been invited to visit Hill of Tarvit House, Cupar.

The format of the evening will be as follows:-

6 pm – arrival, drinks and canopies

6.45 pm – those attending will be split into two groups with one group having a 30 minute tour of house while the other half attend a talk by David Anderson, owner of the Hickory Golf Course

7.15 pm – the two groups will swap over

7.45 pm – Q&A for 15 minutes

8 pm – close of evening

There is no charge for this event and as usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be very welcome to attend the evening.

Joyce Duncan

2nd May 201222nd February 2017 sabc-admin

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 9th May for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews. The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person.

As usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be welcome free of charge.

Our guest speaker will be Joyce Duncan, Managing Director of Impact-21, an Enterprise Trust, which is responsible for business support delivery in Fife. Its focus is to encourage enterprise and business development through support for businesses and individuals to maximise their potential through targeted business advice and training.

Its activities covers all commercial and industrial sectors and a variety of types of business including start-ups, high growth, family owned concerns, social enterprises and academic commercialisations. The services include advice, training, consultancy and project management alongside a range of business development activities, working in partnership with the private and public sectors. It is contracted to manage the Business Gateway services on behalf of Fife Council, following the decision of Scottish Enterprise to centralise its activities.