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Joe Walker and family

The Walker family is keeping a close eye on the dollar as America is the biggest export market for the eponymous Banffshire company’s shortbread. Profits rose from £8.8m to £10.8m, on sales up by more than £10m to £79.8m in 2005. The business is worth £108m and the family, led by Walker, 69, has other interests.