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Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will repay the £585 million of business rates relief received in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tesco has said that it is 'immensely grateful' for the financial and policy support provided to it by the governments of the UK. It said the support

Montoux, the Edinburgh-based decision science platform for life and health insurersb has announced its partnership with PwC UK. By combining Montoux’s transformational decision science platform with PwC’s advisory expertise in developing better products and processes and managing change,

Aberdeen-based niche Microsoft365 consultancy, Appetite for Business has agreed a new lease extension at Aberdeen Innovation Park, the commercial premises owned by Moorfield Group, on behalf of the Moorfield Real Estate Fund III. Appetite for Business, which is owned and led by award-winning bu

Attention has been drawn to South Africa's national lottery as an unusual sequence of numbers was drown on Tuesday.

Edinburgh-based bottling and spirits business Young Spirits has launched its first single cask whisky, Uhuru, which is Swahili for freedom. They have partnered with leading conservation charity, Tusk, to support their efforts to protect African wildlife including African elephants, with 10% of

Tayside solicitors and estate agents Miller Hendry has announced promotions and new appointments to its teams in Dundee and Crieff. Fiona Kelly has been appointed as a solicitor in the Court Department Dundee. Fiona graduated from Abertay University with an LLB (Hons) in 2015, before completing the

Clyde Gateway has completed the £3.2 million sale of a prime industrial investment at its Clyde Gateway East business park.

Accountancy firm Azets has been ranked first for expertise and quality of service in the Charity Finance Audit Survey 2020, with 96% of respondents rating Azets as ‘good’ – respondents were given a rating choice of good, average or poor. Azets performed strongly in all aspects of t

Ian McMonagle, tax specialist at Russell & Russell Business Advisors, discusses the tax options for employers to consider when it comes to celebrating Christmas. While we still don’t know if Christmas is going to be officially cancelled, what we can be quite certain about is that there wil

Shopper footfall in Scotland plunged last month decreasing by 39.7% year on year in November, according to the latest data from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC).

The Scottish Government has confirmed it has entered discussions with the UK Government over Scottish Green proposals for a windfall tax on companies that have greatly increased profits during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Bank of England (BoE) has been asked to find out who is in possession of £50 billion of missing sterling banknotes. The number of notes in circulation reached a record high of 4.4bn in July this year with a face value of £76.5bn. Of that amount, the BoE estimates that as much as 24%

Scotland has enjoyed a boom in the property market since the lockdown began in March according to property firm Apropos by DJ Alexander. The UK-wide letting firm, has analysed official data and found that average house prices in Scotland have risen by 6.8% between March and September (the latest mon

AJ Bell, one of the UK's largest investment platforms, has seen its profits rise by almost a third despite the economic uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. The firm's profit before tax increased by 29% to £48.6 million from £37.7m the year before. Its revenue increased by 31% to &po

The UK new car market again saw a decline last month as registrations in November fell -27.4% year-on-year, or 42,840 units, according to the latest figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).