{"id":8595,"date":"2026-06-12T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:05:21","slug":"king-rewards-the-cream-of-scottish-business-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=8595","title":{"rendered":"King rewards the cream of Scottish business \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>OBEs for accountant Sue Dawe and ice cream maker Maitland Mackie<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Business leaders, a broadcaster and those involved in steering the energy transition are among the individuals named in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Willie Mackie, formerly interim chair at Scottish Enterprise and now chair, CentreStage, Kilmarnock is honoured with a CBE for services to education and the economy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sue Dawe managing partner at EY, Maitland Mackie, chairman of the eponymous ice cream maker Mackies of Scotland, and John Grant, chairman of J &amp; G Grant whisky, are rewarded with OBEs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The honour for Mr Mackie comes in a landmark year as the family-owned business celebrates 40 years of making ice cream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An OBE has also been bestowed on Dr Rashmi Mantri, the founder and director of the British Youth International College, for services to maths education. She has built a business based on an ancient method of calculation using beads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Breakfast radio show host George Bowie and Scottish Enterprise manager Jane Martin are among those who become an MBE.<\/p>\n<p>Rashmi Mantri: OBE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">CBE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">David Currie, chair, Proserv, for services to International Trade, Energy Transition and Economic Growth; Allison Gardner, chief executive, Glasgow Film; Willie Mackie, formerly interim chair at Scottish Enterprise and now chair, CentreStage, Kilmarnock for services to education and the economy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">OBE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Susan Dawe, Scotland managing partner, EY, for services to financial services; Myrtle Dawes, chief executive, Net Zero Technology Centre, for services to Energy and Technology; John Grant, chair, J &amp; G Grant, for services to the Scotch Whisky industry and to charity; Timothy Hall, head of estates and programmes, Woodland Trust Scotland, chair, Future Woodlands Scotland and trustee, Borders Forest Trust, for services to conservation and to forestry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew John Jamieson, lately chief executive of Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, for services to the renewable energy industries; June Frances Macgeachy, co-founder, Peak Scientific, for services to business, to education and to philanthropy; Maitland Mackie, chairman, Mackies of Scotland, for services to farming, to business innovation and to sustainability; Dr Rashmi Mantri, founder and chief executive, British Youth International College, for services to mathematics education; Allan Taylor, for services to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">MBE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">George Bowie, broadcaster and charity campaigner, for services to radio and to charity in Glasgow and the West of Scotland; Jane Martin, managing director innovation and investment, Scottish Enterprise, for services to the Scottish Economy; Charles Stephen Milne, managing director, Regency Group, for services to business and community development in Buckie and Banffshire; Nicholas James Richardson, head of exploration and new ventures, North Sea Transition Authority, for services to energy security and the energy transition; Becky Ruddy, programme director Fuel Cycle Area, NRS Dounreay, for services to women in the nuclear industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Medallist<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">James Fraser, chief executive, The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust. For services to Tourism and Heritage in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. <\/p>\n<p>           \t            #King #rewards #cream #Scottish #business #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBEs for accountant Sue Dawe and ice cream maker Maitland Mackie Business leaders, a broadcaster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[14579,272,6274,306,431,14580,14581,726,3477,14582,14583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}