Loch Lomond backs Great British Entrepreneur Awards 19th January, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers
Scotch whisky producer Loch Lomond has agreed a sponsorship deal with the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
Scotch whisky Glen Scotia will sponsor the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
The agreement will see Loch Lomond’s Scotch whisky brand Glen Scotia become the Great British Entrepreneur Awards’ (GBEA) entrepreneurial spirit partner.
The brand will sponsor the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, which recognises and rewards a business owner who has shown particular entrepreneurial spirit each month.
John Grieveson, chief marketing officer at Glen Scotia, said: “The early entrepreneurial spirit shown by our founders back in 1832 is embedded in Glen Scotia’s DNA.
Glen Scotia partners with Great British Entrepreneur Awards Scotch whisky brand Glen Scotia has announced a new partnership with the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA). The award-winning brand, owned by Loch Lomond Group, is one of only a handful of distilleries left in Cambeltown that has maintained production since the 1830s - the region s whisky-making heyday. The partnership will see Glen Scotia sponsor the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, and together with the GBEA it will recognise and reward a business owner who has shown particular entrepreneurial spirit each month. Since being founded in 2013, the GBEA has worked to acknowledge the hard work and inspirational stories of entrepreneurs and businesses in the UK. It attempts to foster a wider sense of community among the country s entrepreneurs, outside its awards ceremony.
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