Diageo’s ‘Alpha male whizzkid in braces from the 1980s’ caught with trousers...
Paul Walsh, Diageo’s robotic CEO, has been called a lot of things during the profit-driven closure of the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock, railroaded through at the cost of 700 jobs. He has...
View ArticleDiageo may change damaged name, plans Johnnie Walker relaunch and fights...
The Daily Telegraph has reported that an item on the agenda for the Diageo’s forthcoming AGM is on changes to its articles of association – which the meeting will be asked to pass – including: ‘Change...
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Clydeport: the Loch Striven campaign goes on
And For Argyll has started the year as it means to go on. The For Argyll Awards 2009 introduced two new special awards: the ‘For Argyll’ Award and the ‘Not For Argyll’ Award, given by us, respectively,...
View ArticleHidden Europe magazine celebrates the Not For Argyll Awards
The unique European magazine for the independent and curious traveller, seeking secrets, surprises and cultural texture below the surface, Hidden Europe, has picked up on our Not For Argyll...
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Bill Clinton asks Dunoon’s John McAslan to oversee Haiti’s rebuild
Dunoon-born and now London-based, international architect John McAslan says he feels that it’s important to give something back. He walks the talk.The John McAslan Family Trust is a vehicle through...
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Peel Ports Consortium must not be allowed to buy Forth Ports
As we have been predicting, Clydeport’s owner, John Whittaker and Peel Ports, the holding company for the his significant portfolio of ports, are bidding to buy Forth Ports, They lead the Northstream...
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Mission 2110 in progress in Loch Striven
Have you seen the fabulous Avatar? That imported, steel, high-tech universe, fuelled by violent imperial intent? The ‘outstation’, like a giant metal portacabin, plonked down and terrifyingly,...
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Public Meeting on Clydeport and Maersk ships in Loch Striven
This public meeting – on 19th March – was called by petition from the residents of South Cowal and, with scant attention from some of the senior invitees, it became not a dispirited session but...
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Results: Maersk Charity Vote
Here are the results of the online vote For Argyll has run in connection with part of the Maersk programme of donations to local charities and community organisations in the Loch Striven area, where...
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Argyll Renewables Communities (ARC) looks for gold at the end of a rainbow...
The community collaboration between Islay, Kintyre and Tiree that is Argyll Renewables Communities (ARC), is leading the way in an initiative to guide communities negotiating the social and economic...
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End of an era on Royal Mail contract but West Coast Motors sees staff OK
76 years of service came to and end last Saturday (29th October 2011) when West Coast Motors delivered their last load of mail to Mid-Argyll and Campbeltown from Glasgow.Royal Mail have decided to...
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