As research sponsor of the prestigious annual Scotland plc Awards, Strathclyde Business School's role is to carry out rigorous independent research providing impartial data for the judges, with site visits carried out for the relevant award categories.
The 2013 awards, run by Scottish Business Insider and PricewaterhouseCoopers and now in their fifteenth year, were held on April 24 at the Glasgow Hilton. The judging panel was: Iain MacRitchie, chairman, Institute for Turnaround and Transformation; Dr David Milne, chairman, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation; Ken Barclay, head, corporate banking division, Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland; Hew Balfour, non-executive director, SAS International; and Dr Chris Masters, non-executive director, Speedy Hire.
This year the Awards have evolved to also accept entries from large private companies within 3 of the categories, namely Award for Global Reach, The Digital Excellence Award and the Sustainability Award.
Lindsay Gardiner, regional leader, PwC, said, “The plc Awards is all about celebrating the success and the strength of our industries here in Scotland.”
In front of an audience of around 500 people comprising directors of Scotland’s quoted companies, their advisers, brokers and bankers, as well as the owner-managers of private companies, the Scottish plc of the year was named as Aberdeen Asset Management. The panel commended it for its ‘strong organic growth, good acquisitions and successfully building a global name in fund management.”
The other awards were: