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We look at the fastest growing exporters across Scotland

This week's Scotsman Insider takes a deep dive into the fastest growing exporting firms across Scotland.

The ambitious businesses we speak to on a regular basis are already looking past their traditional markets toward where the next wave of demand is coming from.

Scottish produce is well placed for that shift with our food and drink sector, whisky in particular, carrying a provenance moat that few other countries can compete with.

Oil and gas still carries Scotland's export economy on its back, from DeepOcean's decommissioning work for bp at Foinaven to EthosEnergy's five-year Spirit Energy contract extension.

And Cirrus Logic remains a colossus, with £1.5bn of exports and an expanding Edinburgh operation pushing further into energy technology.

But the more interesting reading of this year's Export 100 is what's happening outside the energy core.

BGF-backed Strathberry is the standout, a homegrown Edinburgh brand, founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Guy and Leeanne Hundleby, now forecasting £50m in revenue for the year to April 2026 after a "record peak trading period," with sights on £100m within three years.

We also turn the spotlight this edition on the silent cogs keeping Scotland's international economy turning, the wholesalers who get machinery, medicines and raw materials to where they need to be, the brokers who charter vessels, the operators who own ships when nobody else wants the capital risk.

They rarely get the recognition they deserve, which is why we've introduced a new Supply Chain category into the 2026 Made in Scotland awards.

Netherton Tractors Ltd Tractors, a 92-employee agricultural machinery wholesaler in Forfar, has nearly tripled export sales in five years under entirely independent Scottish ownership, exactly the kind of owner-managed business we've championed in these pages since launch.

It was also a pleasure this edition to interview Nicholas Muirhead of Scottish Leather Group, an eighth-generation, owner-managed Renfrewshire manufacturer with genuine global reach.

Nicholas was candid and argued that Scottish manufacturing doesn't always get the support it needs, particularly on planning. "Investment will always follow the path of least resistance," he said and Scotland needs its own USP if it's serious about pulling in manufacturing-led investment.