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Kevin Mapstone and Paul Webber of Begbies Traynor have been appointed as joint administrators of Scotch Frost of Glasgow Limited on 4 November 2025. The Uddingston-based food importer and distributor, which has ceased trading with the loss of all 17 jobs, was placed into administration following a p
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Jonathan Sutton and Marcus Pickering Royal Elizabeth Bond, a major new bonded Scotch whisky warehousing development on the outskirts of Edinburgh, has appointed two partners to bring gold-standard cask and inventory management to the heart of operations.
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Commercial real estate advisory and services firm Newmark has expanded its Scottish business rates team with the appointment of John Russell as a partner in Glasgow. Ms Russell joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate, where he headed the Scottish Business Rates team.
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UK fintech platform LendInvest Mortgages has hired Abbie McCluskey as business development manager for Scotland. Ms McCluskey will focus on building and strengthening relationships with mortgage brokers to drive the firm’s lending growth across Scotland.
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Harper Macleod has grown its banking and finance team and appointed a new partner. New partner Liana Di Ciacca joins with more than 15 years’ experience on a wide range of complex and high-value debt finance transactions. She advises both funders and borrowers on high profile Scots law matters
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Chartered Financial Planner Jack Swan has joined the rockwealth Aberdeen team. Mr Swan moves to the firm’s Neo House office after seven years at AAB Wealth, becoming the fourth member of the local team.
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William Grant & Sons is undergoing a significant leadership transition, following the sudden departure of its chief executive, Søren Hagh, and the appointment of a new executive board member. Mr Hagh has left the company less than two years after taking on the role on 1 January 2024. His
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Seven members of staff across all levels of the business have been promoted to director at Glasgow-based Consilium Chartered Accountants.
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Big Four accountancy firm PwC has said it expects to achieve full end-to-end integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across its audit work within the next year. Speaking at a briefing at its New York office, Shawn Panson, PwC’s US assurance transformation leader, said the firm is on track
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has accredited The Open University’s (OU) BSc Accounting and Finance degree, marking the first time a distance learning programme has ever been formally recognised by the professional body. This milestone partnership with the UK’s
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MHA in Edinburgh is celebrating after four team members qualified as Chartered Accountants. The colleagues, who are based at the accounting and business advisory firm’s St Colme Street office, have achieved ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and ICAS (Institute of Chartered
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BDO has told its member firms to refuse outside equity investments, pushing back against a wave of interest from buyout giants in the accountancy sector. The world’s fifth-largest accountancy network announced the move as part of a “strategic reset” intended to “ensure a stro
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A Scottish start-up that began around a kitchen table in Moray is now building a national wellbeing movement, thanks to Business Gateway support and a business model that is turning creativity into community care. When designer, Stuart Cox, and mental health professional, Jean Pryde, launched Brilli
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Founded by a powered wheelchair user, Glasgow-based Freedom One Life is targeting new customers in the USA following a funding boost to support the overseas expansion of its manufacturing. The business was born as a result of Alex Papanikolaou’s own experiences of using a powerchair, after bei
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Hamilton-based business consultancy Inspirent has announced a strategic partnership with Glasgow IT provider Aspen Solutions to deliver expert IT support for companies. The link up with the Glasgow firm comes as part of Inspirent’s expansion into the private sector with a recently-launched sui
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A young entrepreneur from Coatbridge and his dad have attracted 3,000 customers in their first two months of trading after they opened a new mobile food business in September. The pair accessed expert start-up advice and support from Business Gateway to help get their business off the ground. Specks
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Scotland experienced the fastest quarter-on-quarter increase in the number of businesses in distress across the UK in Q3 2025, according to the latest Red Flag Alert from Begbies Traynor. In Scotland, levels of advanced or "critical" distress in the latest quarter were particularly stark, rocketing
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