Blog of Colin Boyd, CEO of Logan Car Hire
October 26th

Last weekend I got talking to a friend in the fashion retail business and it looks as if they are finally understanding niche marketing. Fashion companies in the past tends have tended to lump all there products onto one site and sell, sell, sell. What many of them don’t understand is that there ecom sites [...]

October 21st

Today BAA has just mentioned that it is to sell Gatwick Airport for £1.5 Billion to the owners of London City Airport.
BAA are going to use this money to clear of some of it’s £10 Billion debt.
The sale comes in the wake of a Competition Commission inquiry into BAA and especially its dominance of [...]

October 21st

Ryanair wants us, the general tax payer, to help it grow, if the government would kindly invest some of our money in the Airline they it will knidly do more business in Scotland.
Looks like Ryanair are looking for a bank style handout, they say:
“the fund would increase Ryanair’s passengers in Scotland by 1.5 million within [...]

October 21st

Thomas Cook has announced that it’s going to the 23rd sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics in a £20 million deal.
This should put the travel agency at the forefront in incoming visitors minds when booking a trip to London, although Thomas Cook are more well known for out bound travel from the UK this could [...]

October 21st

Cool Cool Cool!

I just heard this morning that Japenese game makers Nintendo are releasing a Black version of the popular Nintendo Wii system, it will be budled with Wii Sports Resort.
Coming out of the 6th November, just in time for a whole new Xmas rush.
I’ve had my Wii for a long time now, in fact [...]

October 20th

Thought I’d mention a good friend of mine’s new business.
A few months ago my friend Frank Wotherspoon setup his own designer fitted kitchen company in Irvine, Ayrshire after becoming unemployed when MFI closed there doors. I’ve know Frank for many years know and he’s always worked with well known ktichen supply companies and know he’s [...]

October 20th

Anyone who goes to work in a suit, sits on a train before 9am or has a business card is on Linked.
Just about everyone I met these days is on it, not sure of the total amount of users but my 3rd Degree of networking can reach over 1 million people.
Here’s mine: http://www.linkedin.com/in/logancarhire
And here’s the [...]

October 20th

I managed to find 10 minutes this morning to have a look at some of the things happening around the world while thinking to myself  “Where would be better than in the office?”
Well I’ve missed Oktoberfest, and October just doesn’t seem to have that much going on, suppose everyones waiting on winter and christmas to [...]