How to Make a Cool Quarter of a Million . . . Ice Cream Cones Boss of the Week: Nadia Millar Boss of the Week: Nadia Millar Scottish Summers Just Wouldn't Be the Same Without Waverley Bakery and Its 'Pokey Hats'

Sunday Herald › January 16, 2007

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MENTION a "pokey hat" to most Glaswegians and it conjures up memories of dripping ice cream cones on a hot summer's day.

Mention the same phrase to Nadia Millar, managing director of Waverley Bakery, the company that makes a quarter of a million ice cream cones at its Cambuslang factory every day, and you conjure a different childhood memory.

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How to Make a Cool Quarter of a Million . . . Ice Cream Cones Boss of the Week: Nadia Millar Boss of the Week: Nadia Millar Scottish Summers Just Wouldn't Be the Same Without Waverley Bakery and Its 'Pokey Hats'

Millar is the Scots-born daughter of Sandro Saccomando, an Italian entrepreneur who came to Scotland from southern Italy in the 1960s and set up his own cone and wafer-manufacturing business in the 1970s, first trading under the name Carousel.

"I've been in this business my whole life. I've never made ice cream, but I worked in the cone factory along with my ...

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