Sunday Business Post, 14th May 2006

Normally we do not do publicity. We rarely advertise in general publications as we know our existing and potential customers. However on this occasion our bank wanted to "do a piece" on a recent new deal. So the few words were put together, and then there was great fun trying to arrange "the right photograph"!

So around 20 photographs were taken and someone (not us!) deemed this the best one! This was actually the first photograph taken at the bank's head office, so we can only presume the other 19 efforts of poses standing, sitting, smiling and non-smiling were all either just dumped or sold to Hello magazines around the world. We did object to the photographer wanting to put a toy ship as "a background theme"; this ship was actually purchased in a toy ship but we did feel it would not enhance the reputation of our existing vessels. So read on and wonder does the bank director look worried ?