Scottish independence: Aggreko becomes the Latest to Warn of Risks
The company states, they employs tenth of its total staffs in Scotland. They worried SNP‘s currency and EU plans may cause years of uncertainty.
Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and Shell, all are notified of their concerns over the potential negative impact of independence. A day after Aggreko also intervenes in constitutional debate.
Last week, Royal Bank of Scotland declared that its credit rating and Standard Life could damage since independence. They said, they were prepared to move business south of the Border in occurrence of yes vote.
Aggreko’s first round results said: “We now face a new risk. This is the possibility that Scotland, which is where we are headquartered and have our global manufacturing and product development facility, might split from the UK.”
It says that independence “presents a number of risks”. The document added Aggreko would have to split its operation into “two separate trading entities”.
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