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            Clyde Blowers Capital
          
        
        
          Clyde Blowers has evolved over the past 20 years from a small
        
        
          loss-making engineering business with an annual turnover of £3m to
        
        
          a portfolio of businesses in over 30 countries employing more than
        
        
          6,500 people worldwide and with a total turnover in excess of
        
        
          £1.3bn. We invest in businesses who are involved in supplying
        
        
          engineered products and services to a number of key industry
        
        
          sectors including oil & gas, power, mining & mineral, water & waste
        
        
          water and other related industries.
        
        
          We are highly operational and hands on, investing in Western based
        
        
          companies and developing them into truly global businesses. Our
        
        
          heart and soul is Scottish with most of the senior team based in East
        
        
          Kilbride with further offices in Beijing and Zurich. Clyde Blowers is
        
        
          privileged to have the strong support of the Scottish business
        
        
          community with whom it works on a regular basis as it continues to
        
        
          go from strength to strength.
        
        
        
          
            See advert on page 8
          
        
        
          
            “We invest in
          
        
        
          
            businesses who are
          
        
        
          
            involved in supplying
          
        
        
          
            engineered products
          
        
        
          
            and services to a
          
        
        
          
            number of key industry
          
        
        
          
            Choose Lanarkshire
          
        
        
          Choose Lanarkshire is the brand for the joint inward investment initiative
        
        
          between North and South Lanarkshire Councils and aims to meet the
        
        
          following objectives:
        
        
          • To position Lanarkshire as an attractive place to do business
        
        
          • To encourage inward investment into Lanarkshire
        
        
          • To inspire businesses and stakeholders to promote Lanarkshire
        
        
          The website,
        
        
        
          ghlights what makes
        
        
          Lanarkshire a good place for business including its strategic location
        
        
          between Edinburgh and Glasgow and connectivity to the rest of the UK,
        
        
          key business sectors, a wide variety of commercial properties available,
        
        
          business support services, and also provides links for further information.
        
        
          In addition the website is a useful portal in supporting the local business
        
        
          community with its monthly events calendar highlighting relevant training and
        
        
          business events, links to business support services, local business news,
        
        
          Lanarkshire property advice service and online business directory.
        
        
          For more information, please contact
        
        
        
          
            See advert on Inside Back Cover