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When I interviewed Dougal Sharp a few weeks ago he was really excited about the prospect of taking his beer company, Innis and Gunn, to America.

The day after our meeting he was off to see a strong candidate to lead the brand's move into the USA.

Now the contracts have been signed and a new operational arm, Innis & Gunn USA, has been formed.

Dan DeLuca, pictured below, is the man charged with leading the growth there and he comes with an impressive pedigree.

Even though the print edition of Business7 isn't back until January 8 it has still been a really busy few days.

I would hope a few of you have listened to our podcast or downloaded it from iTunes.

We also did our first ever live web coverage of an event and our Pre-Budget Report updates, with expert opinions from Tenon, Henderson Loggie, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, McGrigors and Lesley Campbell, can be accessed here.

Throw in a strategy and planning meeting for the paper, Insider magazine and our whole web operation and it would have been easy to miss some of the really positive Scottish business news which has been announced in the past few days.