July 15, 2021, 6:00 am
Christopher Leigh, right, and his father, Andrew, carry out a quality check on John Ross Jr s salmon after the firm wins one of its two Queen s Awards.
New sales to mainland Europe, China and the Caribbean have raised the spirits of bosses at a multiple award-winning supplier of fish to the Queen.
Last year, John Ross Jr (Aberdeen) chief executive Christopher Leigh was upset about recruitment challenges – lambasting the UK Government over its new immigration policy.
And in January this year sales director Victoria Leigh-Pearson – whose family has run the Granite City smokehouse since 1987 – railed out over Brexit. She accused Westminster of “gross incompetence” in its handling of the transition towards the UK quitting the European Union.
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Bosses at one of Scotland’s oldest smokehouses have accused the UK Government of “gross incompetence” in a furore over post-Brexit exports of Scottish seafood.
John Ross Jr (Aberdeen), whose brick kilns have been used to process salmon since 1857, has been unable to get its produce to mainland Europe.
The royal warrant holder and two-time Queen’s Award winner has had perishable goods stuck in transit for nearly a week.
Meanwhile, the governments in Edinburgh and London are blaming each other for a log-jam of seafood lorries – due to red tape – at an export distribution hub in Larkhall, Lanarkshire.