High Street banks cut financial support for Scottish SMEs by £465m
High Street banks have slashed financial support for SMEs in Scotland by £465 million, a decrease of 5.8% between 2014 and 2018, according to Iwoca.
Published 17 January 2020
£19m worth of business generated by BNI Scotland North
BNI Scotland North, a business network in the North of Scotland, is following a remarkable year which saw its members generate more than £19 million worth of business.
Published 17 January 2020
Susan Currie: Tax avoidance schemes and liquidation
Susan Currie, solicitor at Blackadders, discusses the intricacies of tax avoidance schemes and liquidation.
Published 17 January 2020
ONS: Retail sales dropped in December
Retail sales in December 2019 fell by 0.6%, the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found.
Published 17 January 2020
FSB: Three quarters of Scottish smaller firms opposed to council rates move
Three-quarters of Scottish firms believe that giving councils additional powers over non-domestic rates would be bad for business, according to a new survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Published 17 January 2020
Scottish Government announces loan fund for rural farmers and crofters
Loan payments are now being issued to provide financial support to hill farmers and crofters in some of Scotland’s most remote and marginalised areas, the Scottish Government has announced.
Published 17 January 2020
Devro issues profit warning after disappointing sales
Lanarkshire-based sausage skin maker Devro has issued a profit warning after the firm saw lower than expected second-half sales which it expects will affect last year's profits.
Published 17 January 2020
RR Spink & Sons posts revenues of £31m
Arbroath-based fish company RR Spink & Sons has seen revenues reach £31.7 million for the year ended March 31 2019, an increase of over £6m from 2018.
Published 17 January 2020
Encouraging performance from Scottish office market despite political uncertainty
CBRE has released its latest figures on Scotland’s office market, revealing an encouraging performance despite ongoing political uncertainty.
Published 17 January 2020
England: Investors lose at least £600m on Carillion PFI hospital contracts
The two private finance initiative (PFI) hospitals that Carillion was building at the time it collapsed are currently due for completion at vastly increased budgets with most of the increased costs being met by the contractor and private PFI investors, a National Audit Office (NAO) investigation has confirmed today.
Published 17 January 2020
