{"id":1569,"date":"2017-04-26T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:41:21","slug":"michael-impressed-by-global-reach-of-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Michael Impressed by Global Reach of Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0recently visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osawhisky.com\/\">Old St Andrews<\/a>, a small firm that packages Scotch Whiskies, gins, and vodka.<\/p>\n<p>He was met by the Managing Director, Bob Gorton, and other members of the office and warehouse team.\u00a0 He was given a private tour and learnt more about the business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1570\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1570 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MF-meeting-OStA-workers-in-the-warehouse-packaging-bottles-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"MF meeting OStA workers in the warehouse packaging bottles\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MF-meeting-OStA-workers-in-the-warehouse-packaging-bottles-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MF-meeting-OStA-workers-in-the-warehouse-packaging-bottles-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MF-meeting-OStA-workers-in-the-warehouse-packaging-bottles-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MF-meeting-OStA-workers-in-the-warehouse-packaging-bottles-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old St Andrews is a small company located in Kemsing but it has clients all over the world, which Bob marks with little red dots on a world map in his office.\u00a0 It exports vodka to Poland, gin to Europe, Scotch Whisky to Turkey, and Kosher whisky to Israel. Around 80 per cent of its business is in exports, and it is ranked as one of the best businesses on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1572\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1572 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_7489-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7489\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_7489-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_7489-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_7489-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_7489-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: \u2018I was surprised at how varied the firm\u2019s product range is.\u00a0 There is a real story here.\u00a0 This small business works from tiny premises in a local business Park, but it is an impressive globally-recognised brand.\u00a0 I spoke with Bob about the firm\u2019s future in uncertain times and how he will still be able to employ the overseas skills he needs. \u00a0I am committed to ensuring that businesses like Old St Andrews are able to flourish, trading inside and outside the European Union.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Michael\u00a0recently visited Old St Andrews, a small firm that packages Scotch Whiskies, gins, and vodka. He was met by the Managing Director, Bob Gorton, and other members of the office and warehouse team.\u00a0 He was given a private tour and learnt more about the business. Old St Andrews is a small company located in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Impressed by Global Reach of Small Business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[514,512,513,504,515,511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}