From: Southern Reporter
FEW businesses can boast of client relationships of more than 20 years. However, Sykes Global Services can go one better than this having served multinational software firm Adobe for 22 years of the company's 25-year existence – although it has to be conceded that this was in a number of guises.
To mark this occasion, Sykes' Douglas Watt commissioned a silver Border Reiver figure, below, which has now been presented to Dan Brown, Adobe Incorporated Worldwide operations director at its HQ in San Jose.
"It seemed appropriate that as Adobe's growth had been assisted – albeit modestly by Sykes – that we should present them with a mounted 15th-century Border Reiver to remind them of their reliance on Borders folk and, equally, ours on them," explained Mr Watt from Galashiels.
"The figurine is an exact replica of the horseman that stands in front of the War Memorial in the centre of Galashiels where the company's highly successful 120-strong fulfilment operation is located".
The figure was crafted by Neil Ballantyne from Ballantynes of Walkerburn.
