Scan Magazine | Editor’s Note
Dear Reader, We have just entered the first summer month and as we all know this has many connotations. On the bright side we have beach trips, flowery parks and bank holidays, but with them also follow sunburned noses, hay-fever and increased credit-card bills. Just as it is with summer so it is with anniversaries; they are always enjoyable but also bring something else with them like the need to revise, improve and take up more responsibility. At Scan Magazine we have done exactly that and as we celebrate our one-year birthday, it is my pleasure, as the magazine’s new editor, to present to you what we believe to be one of the best editions yet. We hope you will agree with us as soon as you open the magazine to read the funny, yet thoughtful, interview with Danish Comedienne Sandi Toksvig, a well-know personality on British TV. Further into the magazine you will see that we have chosen to dedicate a major part of this anniversary issue to one of the Scandinavian’s biggest passions: design. In a 12 page special our award-winning design writer Barbara Chandler gives you a comprehensive guide to Scandinavian design: a must-read for all design enthusiasts. But we have, of course, not forgotten the many other thriving parts of Scandinavian business here in the UK. Since the Vikings, we Scandinavians have been famous for our skills on the sea. The
business profile of the Norwegian, family-owned shipping company Stolt-Nielsen on page 44 proves that we still have them. On the business pages you can also find out why new entrepreneurs should seek the help of Danish founded Bridgehead and how the Swedish exchange business FOREX is doing as a newcomer on the UK market. Of course we also have contributions from all our valued columnists, who have stayed faithfully with us through the year, and here diversity is the key. On page 37 you can have a good laugh with Mette Lisby, who struggles to find the right superlatives for newborn babies, while Bronte Blomhoj reveals the secret of making your own cured salmon. It has to do with digging, but if you want to know more, you will have to turn to page 34. Last, of course, not even Scan Magazine’s anniversary edition can avoid taking notice of the MP’s expense scandal, on which you can find a humorous twist in Malcolm’s column at the back of the magazine. Luckily, he can tell us that they are not all bad, which we choose to believe because on birthdays everyone should have the benefit of the doubt. I hope you enjoy the issue and look forward to another year in company with you and Scan Magazine.
Signe Hansen Editor
Scan Magazine Issue 9 | June 2009
Copy-editor Mark Rogers
Sales Director Ture Damtoft
Published 08.06.2009 ISSN 1757-9589
Contributors Barbara Chandler Ian Welsh Bronte Blomhoj Rikke Bruntse-Dahl Emelie Krugly Mette Lisby Malcolm Campbell Helena Whitmore Karl Batterbee
Marketing Manager Helene Oxfeldt Lauridsen
Published by Scan Magazine Limited Design & Print Liquid Graphic Limited Executive Editor Thomas Winther Editor Signe Hansen Art Direction Mads E. Petersen
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Cover Photo PA Photos
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