Standard Life Aberdeen plc is one of the world’s largest investment companies, created in 2017 from the merger of Standard Life plc and Aberdeen Asset Management PLC. Operating under the brand Aberdeen Standard Investments, the investment arm manages £575.7bn* of assets, making it the largest active manager in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. It has a significant global presence and the scale and expertise to help clients meet their investment goals.

As a leading global asset manager, Aberdeen Standard Investments is dedicated to creating long-term value for our clients. The investment needs of our clients are at the heart of what we do. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, as well as the very highest level of service and support.
Aberdeen Standard Investments has the depth and scale of investment capabilities to meet the current and future needs of clients. A full suite of actively managed strategies is complemented by quantitative, rules-based approaches that systematically look to capture or enhance market return.

By maintaining this breadth of expertise, we aim to lead the way with innovative investment approaches that can target investors’ specific needs for income, return, risk control or liability management – as well as seeking to provide sources of performance across different market cycles.

*as at 31/12/17

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Scotland’s food and drink is at the top of its game – we can take your business there too.

As the country’s leading independent firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, we work with some of Scotland’s fastest growing food and drink businesses, providing innovative ideas to help them achieve their ambitions.

We believe ‘ask don’t tell, listen don’t talk’. By listening to what matters to our clients most, we help you to solve problems, face challenges and increase the possibilities every time we’re in touch. We look after your business in all areas of accounting – from audit to tax, to business and personal finance.

With experts across Scotland we are always on hand to listen, learn and advise.

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JK Fine Foods – Chester Signature Events

Located in Aberdeen’s west end, JK Fine Foods is an indoor farmers market boasting a superb range of goods which has placed it as a firm foodie favourite and a one stop shop for excellence.

It boasts one of the best butchery counters in the city with all the beef sourced directly from Millers of Speyside in the Highlands, ensuring the customer superb Scottish quality and full traceability from field to fork.

The store, in the city’s Chattan Place, also has a large fish counter that is stocked daily straight from Peterhead market, which is in line with JK Fine Foods’ ethos of sustainable sourcing.

With a focus on supporting local, JK has a large dairy, bakery, vegetable and deli selection sourced from independent producers from across Aberdeenshire and Scotland, in addition to an international deli section which features a large stock of organic, gluten free and vegan products.

The store continually adds to its product lines and currently houses around 5000 food products, with as much as possible sourced locally.

It also boasts one of the North-east’s largest collections of local and Scottish craft beers and gins. They stock more than 60 gins, mostly Scottish and 80 craft beers, from local suppliers such as Fierce Beer and Brewdog.

JK Fine Foods is focussed on encouraging customers to champion local retailers and producers rather than support large supermarket chains.

We are Jelf. Award winning experts in Insurance, Risk Management and Employee Benefits for businesses and individuals.

Our deep knowledge of both the industry sectors and communities we serve means we can offer advice and solutions that meet our clients' needs today, anticipate what they need tomorrow, and help question if there’s an even better way.

Our strength is our expertise and the relationships we build – powerful industry insight and total commitment to our clients and the communities we serve across the UK.  And our purpose is simple: helping businesses and individuals thrive through understanding.

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RigQuip are experts in drilling equipment. We’re a longstanding business with a forward-thinking approach.

We support our clients in efficient drilling operations, whether that’s providing state of the art new equipment and engineering services, used equipment recertification or on site services and parts and expendables. We offer solid technical solutions at fair prices. We’re obsessed with quality and are the world’s first API Q2 certified drilling equipment service organisation.

We are a trusted technical authority on drilling equipment to many of the world’s largest operators and drilling contractors. With more than 10 years in business and a management team with many more, there is nothing we haven’t seen or overcome. Our team are highly trained and we have technical know-how that no one else does, including on legacy equipment.

Our business has global reach and can support you wherever you are in the world, whether it’s a new build program in Asia, SPS in Europe or the US, or a rig down situation off the coast of Africa.

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