Honorary degree for seafood chief

DAWNFRESH chairman Alastair Salvesen has been awarded an honorary degree by the leading business University.

Dawnfresh Seafoods is the UK’s leading grower and processor of rainbow trout and owner of RR Spink and Sons, the Arbroath company that holds a royal warrant Queen.

Salvesen (pictured below) is a past president of the Royal and Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland and of the British Frozen Food Federation, and also acted for a number of years as chairman of the of Great Britain. He was awarded a degree in advanced engineering before going on to gain an MBA in 1966 and was later made a CBE for his work in the seafood business.