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Article: Ice cream you scream? An ex-banker and his wife have got the gourmet ice cream market well and truly licked, as Peter Owens reports.
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- NZ Business
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- April 1, 2005
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The Otago region seems to be a happy hunting ground for upmarket businessmen who choose to move into the small business sector. Last year NZBusiness profiled Dennis Kirkpatrick who heads Jimmy's Pies in Roxburgh.
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Another person to move from 'big business' into the different culture of small business is Mark Scorgie. Both Kirkpatrick and Scorgie have several characteristics in common.
Both men came from Otago pioneering stock, both came to small business from the banking industry, and both moved into the food manufacturing and distribution business. But that's not all--Kirkpatrick and Scorgie are vintage car ...