Trump’s Scottish golf course bucks oil downturn – but remains £1m in the red

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s golf resort in the north-east of Scotland grew sales last year despite the oil and gas downturn – but was still ended up £1million in the red.

Trump International Golf Club Scotland on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire hailed a 7.4% growth in sales last year, bringing in over £3million in turnover.

This was “in spite of the economic downturn experienced in the north-east of Scotland due to the collapse of oil prices with over a 100,000 redundancies affecting every sector in the region”, a report in its accounts filed at Companies House said.

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