Businessman Des Cheyne got the entrepreneurial bug when he was 11, delivering pints of milk in his home town of Banff and, later, helping out in his father’s convenience shop.
Three decades on, he is now the owner and managing director of the Spotty Bag Shop, one of the north-east’s largest independent retail stores.
He said: “In the five years I was the local milk boy turnover on the round increased by 10%.
“I was the milk boy in the morning and worked in the shop at night with my dad.
“This gave me the drive and the buzz to succeed in business. My parents instilled a work ethic in me that to succeed you have to work hard.”
