FIRM ASSURANCES ON HARRIS TWEED WELCOMED
CLAIMS DEBUNKED AS “COMPLETE & UTTER NONSENSE"
Western Isles MSP Dr Alasdair Allan has welcomed assurances by the chief executive of Harris Tweed Hebrides, Ian Angus Mackenzie, that claims it was downplaying its Scottish connection from a US marketing campaign are “complete and utter nonsense."
Commenting on the assurances Dr Allan said:
“This is a welcome public clarification for what seems a bit of mischief. Having already spoken to the manager and chief executive of the company this morning I was already assured that this is a story which has a lot of mischief and not much fact about it.
“It is difficult to see how any buyer in the world could fail to associate Harris Tweed with the Hebrides and Scotland. It is an iconic Scottish product, and one with a great future which is clearly marketed as Scottish.
“How this story originated I don't know – however there seems to be more than a whiff of politics about it, given all the spurious references to Megrahi. But I am glad that this story is not just simply nonsense but complete and utter nonsense.”
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