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Sigma Aldrich

Sigma Aldrich

January 2015

Through the continued gathering of evidence of its impact, Business Mentoring Scotland has been shown to massively benefit mentees that join up to be mentored.
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Rennie Fabrication

Rennie Fabrication

August 2014

Mentoring began between mentor Grant Eckersley and Malcolm Rennie of Rennie Fabrication in early 2013. Malcolm Rennie founded his Moray based steel fabrication business in 2002 after a career spent mainly as a trained mechanical engineer in the oil and gas industry. Rennie Fabrication offer domestic and commercial manufactured steel products, ranging from garden gates and street lamps to stainless steel pipe work for use in distilleries and the bio mass heating industry.
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B-DACS Air Conditioning Services

B-DACS Air Conditioning Services

June 2014

Business Mentoring Scotland has found its latest advocate in the form of Diane Drummond, co-owner of B-Dacs, a Glasgow based provider of Air Conditioning installation and related services for industrial, commercial, and domestic clients.
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Rockstar Mentee: Parmi Jutlay, Continu Ink

Rockstar Mentee: Parmi Jutlay, Continu Ink

April 2014

Parmi Jutlay talks about his mentoring experience with Rockstar
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Peter Rawson, Rockstar Mentor on 3 mentee’s businesses

Peter Rawson, Rockstar Mentor on 3 mentee’s businesses

April 2014

Peter Rawson gives 3 examples here of how he has mentored 3 different mentees businesses out of signficant problems.
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Social Enterprise Company gets to grips with social media thanks to help from business mentor

Social Enterprise Company gets to grips with social media thanks to help from business mentor

November 2013

A Community Interest Company is working towards building a wide client base with the help of a business mentor.
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Mentoring support for Stix for soft drinks manufacturer

October 2013

One of the UK’s brightest graduate entrepreneurs is enhancing his business model with the help of mentoring guidance from Lloyds Banking Group.
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Applied Arts

August 2013

Dorota Grabkowska a young designer and Carl Beardon a Barclay’s manager and business mentor were brought together in May 2012 by their local mentoring organisation, IOEE.
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Oxfordshire business benefits from mentoring session with Lloyds TSB Commercial Group Director

August 2013

After being crowned winner of the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards in March, YASA Motors, the Oxford-based manufacturer of high performance electric motors for hybrid and electric cars, received part of its prize – a mentoring session with leading figures from Lloyds TSB Commercial.
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EDA Case Study - Effective Business Mentoring and CSR: A Case Study of the 12/8 Group

December 2012

This case study describes the work of the 12/8 Group, a peer-to-peer business mentoring initiative involving six growth orientated African-Caribbean owned small firms.
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Confident strategy sees moulds business double every year

Confident strategy sees moulds business double every year

May 2012

With turnover doubling every year since its formation three and a half years ago, SPB Moulds is achieving the kind of exponential growth that other companies would envy.
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Mentor’s insight puts sledge designers on fast track to sales

Mentor’s insight puts sledge designers on fast track to sales

January 2012

Having perfected an innovative sledge that’s seriously fast and manoeuvrable, Stone-based Bobskis are ready to take the winter sports market by snowstorm – with a little help from their mentor.
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Fresh input so valuable as specialist engineers expand

Fresh input so valuable as specialist engineers expand

May 2011

Successful businesspeople never believe that they have all the answers. At Staffordshire Precision Engineering, a specialist components manufacturer with a 30-year record of success, joint managing directors Gary and Phil Smith have found there’s much to be gained from ‘a fresh pair of eyes’.
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