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Blairgowrie based A. Proctor Group wins Scottish Family Business of the Year 2015
Following a great evening at The May
Fair Hotel in the heart of London,
Family Business United is delighted
to announce that the A Proctor Group
were winners of the 2015 Scottish
Family Business of the Year Award.
The Family Business of the Year
Awards were established three years
ago to celebrate the contribution that
family businesses make to the UK
economy. With over 3 million family
firms in the UK, the awards organised
by Family Business United, really help
to put family businesses on the map,
celebrating their achievements and
recognising the diversity of the sector
at the same time.
Innovation has run through the
Proctor family for as long as they can
remember although the company
was not founded until 1934 and is
now run by the fourth generation
of the Proctor family. The family
originally manufactured textiles and
supplied flax to Scotland’s mills which
evolved over time to the supply and
fabrication of insulation produc