Good Business Podcast
The Good Business Podcast is dedicated to celebrating Highland business at its best, focusing on SME businesses. Season Two is guest-hosted by Danni Nicolson and the stories are captured in audio and visual by Scott MacDonald. The podcast features conversations with business owners and entrepreneurs about their good business practices, leadership, and team development.
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E09: The Ledge
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E08: Cru Holdings
A conversation with entrepreneur Scott Murray from CRU Holdings, a collection of different businesses with some in the hospitality and the travel sectors. The one thing they all have in common, however, is the quality they deliver, each and every time. “We review each business on a weekly basis so we can see where things are maybe falling off or where things are performing strongly. And we’ll quite quickly react and put a plan in place to try and bolster that, or if it’s something that’s performed particularly well, we’ll replicate that across other sites or other businesses.”— Scott Murray, …
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E07: Wildtrax
A talk with Craig and Cheries Dutton from WildTrax, the Land Rover outdoor adventure hire business, about their motivation, innovation, and pursuit to provide excellent customer service and experience. “It’s an incredibly rewarding industry. It’s because people are always so happy. The guests and the customers are happy whether you’re running a kayak rental company or hiking company, or hotel. People are smiling when they come to you. And invariably, if you’ve done your job right, they’re smiling when they’ve left. And that’s rewarding, that’s for me the perfect recipe for a happy work-home life. You’re enjoying the fact that …
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E06: Gordon Timber
Ronald and Scott Gordon of Gordon Timber discuss the long history of the family business and the innovations and good practices that have made their Nairn sawmill business a resounding success. “They say that manufacturing in the UK is dead. But we are here in the north of Scotland and very proud of the fact that we actually make something, and it’s grown in the Highlands, processed here and it’s competing with products from all over the world. So that gives us a great sense of achievement and I’d like to think the vast majority of our workforce share in …
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E05: Dicksons of Inverness
A talk with Jim Mackenzie from the car dealership, Dicksons of Inverness, an independent business in a sector that’s dominated by national brands, and the importance of internal communication within the business. “I think the heart is the internal communication within the business, right from the top, right through the business. We make sure that everyone knows very quickly what’s going on. Be it good or bad, they’re aware of it. We don’t like rumours. So, I think the heart of the business is we work from the director’s side through the management structure, into the other members of staff …
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E04: Farmer Jones Academy
A chat with Richard Jones and Sarah Mackenzie of the Farmer Jones Academy, a community interest company which is on a mission to inspire young people into careers by delivering training and development courses in farming, food and drink, personal development and business skills.
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E03: GlenWyvis Distillery
Matthew Farmer of the GlenWyvis Distillery explains how the business has grown through community ownership. The distillery was funded in a very unconvential way, which provided a unique challenge in the early days of the operation.
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E02: Inverness Kart Raceway
Peter Doherty and Holly Morrison of Inverness Kart Raceway discuss the giving back social enterprise aspect of the business as a mentoring charity, by providing young people with new skills and future job opportunities.
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E01: Speyside Distillery
A talk with John Harvey McDonough of the Speyside Distillery, a small hand-built distillery nestled in the foothills of the Cairngorm mountains. Widely acknowledged to be the prettiest of all Scotland’s distilleries, Speyside still manufactures whisky the traditional way.