Tags - Rural Business

Maintaining a vital rural service

HIH Case Study

Caledonian Marts Ltd operates from the auction mart centre at Millhall, Stirling. The company carries on the long tradition of livestock sales in the area, stretching back to the heyday of the drovers...

St Andrews Country Lodges & Cuplahills Farm

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In 2012 Stephen & Amanda, the third generation to farm at Cuplahills Farm, embarked on a special journey that began with a hay meadow and was to become the tranquil idyll that is now synonymous with...

Perthshire Oatcakes

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We have been hand making our delicious oatcakes for 13 years. They started off as one of many products we made for our delicatessen shop in Auchterarder.

The oatcakes sold so fast we couldn't sustain...

Hommel & Co Hot Tubs

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We are a young business in our third year of manufacturing and trading beautiful Scottish Larch hot tubs, completely fuelled from solid wood.

The hot tubs are crafted from scratch in our workshop in...

Fairfield Farms

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Since taking over operational control of Fairfield Farms, I have increased the total farmed area from 800 to over 1,250 hectares of full mixed farming. This includes enterprises of Beef Suckler, Ewes...

Galloway Chillies

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Galloway Chillies started from my making small batches of chilli jam from my own plants grown in my kitchen. Five and a half years ago I started the business and have developed into a large scale...

Grewar Farming - Retailing & Vending

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Euan Grewar, in partnership with his extended family, farms on a large scale with owned land in Angus and the Black Isle and thousands of acres farmed on rental agreements and Contract Farming...

We Hae Meat

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Situated in the picturesque Girvan Valley right in the heart of Ayrshire, family run farm and butchery ‘We Hae Meat’ can be found. This successful butchery business supplies only the finest meat and...

Inverawe Smokehouse

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Inverawe Smokehouse is a traditional family run business established in 1974 by Robert and Rosie Campbell-Preston in their back garden. Since then the business has only grown, and strengthened into...

Traditional Dairy Farming

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Nestled in the heart of East Lothian Yester Farm Dairies can be found. Run by husband and wife duo, Simon and Jackie McCreery, Yester Farm Dairies is an incredibly successful farm business, with many...

SkyeSkyns

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SkyeSkyns was established in 1983 by Clive and Lydia Hartwell, who were encouraged to diversify their small-holding. Realising the local abattoir was disposing of raw skins as waste, the couple saw a...

Lussa Gin

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Nestled away on the Island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland, you can find the delightful Lussa Gin distillery. Established by a trio of adventurous local ladies and using only the most natural...