THE accolades keep on coming for Jannettas Gelateria having scooped The Courier Retail Business of the Year award along with the 2014 Golden Cone award. Jannettas’ owners, Owen and Nicola Hazel, were also finalists in The Courier’s Family Business of the Year category.

Fife Business Bottles Success

The recently opened The Bruery in Dunfermline has created a new chapter in Fife’s brewing history and a new venture for David Austin, owner and manager of Reubens Café and Wine Store.

“I wanted to add a local beer to our wine store so contacted brewer, Douglas Ross, for help. It took just six weeks from that initial thought to the first bottle.

Wild Rover Q&A

Q. Your names, ages and where you live?

Catherine Kilgour, 30 and Robert Wright, 36. We live in the lovely little conservation village, Charlestown, near Dunfermline.

Q. What does your business do, what makes it unique and when did you launch?

Continental Market Q&A

Q. What does your business do and who do you run the business with?

We organise Continental Markets as a way of attracting people back to the high street. We have a group of traders from around the world who sell a variety of products from their home countries to give the local people here a taste of something different, something that may remind them of their holidays or even make them want to visit the country for themselves. I run the business with my partner, Angela Scott and have had help along the way from Graeme Allan at Business Gateway Fife.

Baker Rises to the Challenge of being his own Boss with help from Business Gateway

Taking voluntary redundancy provided Barry Batchelor with the finance he needed to fulfil one of his five life ambitions – to open his own bakery.

The 61-year-old, from Newburgh, decided to take severance from Telford College, Edinburgh, last September after spending 37 years teaching students patisserie and bakery.

As well as creating four part-time jobs, the former chef has ploughed £80,000 of his own money into renovating premises at 108 High Street, Newburgh.

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