The “Business Scotland” programme on BBC Radio Scotland on a Sunday morning is well worth a listen – it’s an interesting mixture of news about Scottish businesses and business in Scotland. The only snag is it’s broadcast on a Sunday morning and that’s my day off (hah hah) so it’s yet another radio programme I listen to by podcast after the event; they’re available for 30 days after broadcast.
There was a very revealing interview, a few months ago so no longer available for download, with Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya when he visited Scotland to talk about his plans for the Whyte & Mackay whisky brand which he owns. He tried to make the case for the high import tariffs which India imposes on our national drink, but I’m afraid his protectionist argument fell apart when he let on that India allows a drink distilled from molasses to be called “whisky” and he wants to be allowed to sell it here under the same name.
We shouldn’t be too hard on the man, I suppose, because he does have our own Paul di Resta from West Lothian driving for his Force India Formula 1 team – whose major sponsor this year is Whyte & Mackay. It must be nice to have one part of your business empire paying for the fun part!
Anyhow, this week’s Business Scotland programme covered cloud computing, a subject all over the business press these days and dear to our heart here at Waverley Lane. Douglas Fraser has recorded three interviews looking at cloud-based services from different points of view; take a listen here before the 3rd of July and see what you think.