A knighthood for services to export goes to Derek Hornby, chairman of Rank Xerox (UK) Ltd, in the New Year’s Honours List published over the weekend. Peter Palmer, chairman of little Spider Systems Ltd up in Edinburgh becomes an MBE, and there’s a CBE for Michael Bett, managing director of British Telecommunications UK. The sturdy NCR plant up in Dundee, which makes some of the company’s products for the entire world market, is recognised with an OBE for James Adamson, managing director and general manager of NCR (Manufacturing) Ltd, and Scotland figures strongly in the information technology sector overall, with Iain Duffin, managing director of Microelectronics Ltd in Glenrothes becoming an OBE, while Douglas Hardie, deputy chairman of the Scottish Development Agency responsible for attracting all that electronic inward investment to the glens, is rewarded with a knighthood. John Heeks, director, Defence Systems at STC Technology Ltd, and Rex Thorne, chairman of the Radio Paging Association, each with an OBE, complete the list from Computergram’s point of view. Congratulations all.
