Case Studies
Tennamast Scotland Ltd - Calum Mackie
Calum Mackie bought Tennamast from the retiring owner, and as he put it:
“I wanted help and I had not a lot of experience in this area or in running a company so the Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce put me in touch with the mentoring program.”
Calum was matched with Bob Byers in January 2010 and describes it as a “Good match - he has an engineering background and is a keen sailor.”
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Paul Hodgkiss Design - Paul Hodgkiss
Paul Hodgkiss runs bespoke cabinet making company and was looking to expand but also realised that “The company was unsustainable and had no value as everything relied on me and if anything happened to me there would be no value in the business despite all our hard work.” Much of the furniture that he manufactured tended to be on a repeat orders and he explained that “things began to evolve in my head and I realised that we have a range of furniture and a strong brand, I needed help as to how we go from here.” This is when he contacted the Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Growth Pipeline who proposed that he should get a mentor and as he says himself “I consider myself lucky that I was matched with Lenny, they paired me off with the best person that could have been."
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Blair Atholl Water Mill - Kirsty Cohen
Kirsty and her husband Rami were thinking of selling their Watermill and Tea Room which they had been running for seven years but instead decided to take a fresh look at the business and were advised by Business Gateway to get a mentor to “take the business onto a new level”. They were matched with Ian Gibson who had 10 years of mentoring experience and joined the program to Mentor in a more structured way and “wanted some more practice and to keep my hand in.”
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Tennamast Scotland Ltd - Calum Mackie
Calum Mackie bought Tennamast from the retiring owner, and as he put it:
“I wanted help and I had not a lot of experience in this area or in running a company so the Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce put me in touch with the mentoring program.”
Calum was matched with Bob Byers in January 2010 and describes it as a “Good match - he has an engineering background and is a keen sailor.”
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Paul Hodgkiss Design - Paul Hodgkiss
Paul Hodgkiss runs bespoke cabinet making company and was looking to expand but also realised that “The company was unsustainable and had no value as everything relied on me and if anything happened to me there would be no value in the business despite all our hard work.” Much of the furniture that he manufactured tended to be on a repeat orders and he explained that “things began to evolve in my head and I realised that we have a range of furniture and a strong brand, I needed help as to how we go from here.” This is when he contacted the Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Growth Pipeline who proposed that he should get a mentor and as he says himself “I consider myself lucky that I was matched with Lenny, they paired me off with the best person that could have been."
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Blair Atholl Water Mill - Kirsty Cohen
Kirsty and her husband Rami were thinking of selling their Watermill and Tea Room which they had been running for seven years but instead decided to take a fresh look at the business and were advised by Business Gateway to get a mentor to “take the business onto a new level”. They were matched with Ian Gibson who had 10 years of mentoring experience and joined the program to Mentor in a more structured way and “wanted some more practice and to keep my hand in.”
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