STEWART MILNE, chairman and chief executive of Stewart Milne Group, the construction company, was last night named Ernst & Young Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr Milne has developed his company from a small builder based in Aberdeen to a multimillion-pound UK-wide business. Last year the company’s turnover reached £188 million.
Mr Milne beat 43 of Scotland’s finest entrepreneurs to take the title at a banquet at the Glasgow Hilton after being presented with the Master Entrepreneur title.
Mr Milne now goes into the national awards in London in October, to compete for the Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year title.
Other Scottish winners in the scheme, co-sponsored by The Times, the London Stock Exchange and Coutts, the bank, included Keith Rogers, of Goals Soccer Centres, David Lockwood, of Intense, Michael Welch, of Black Circles, Neil McNicol, of McCurrach UK, Andrew Porter and Jim Reid, of Haptogen, Alison Smith, of activpayroll, and Gillian Morbey, of Sense Scotland.