In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.

Due to the Financial crisis of 2007–2010 slicing an estimated £250million from his fortune Hunter was overtaken as Scotland's richest man in late 2007 by Jim McColl head of Glasgow engineering firm Clyde Blowers who has an estimated fortune of £800million. Campbell invested in another businessman who sold footwear with Campbell undertaking the accounts and working on a market stall in Irvine indoor market. In July 1998 JJB Sports offered to buy the larger Sports Division for £290m: Hunter accepted earning himself £252million.

05 billion. In April 2007 Hunter was reported in the Sunday Times Rich List as the first ever home-grown billionaire in Scotland with an estimated wealth of £1.