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Persimmon said yesterday it is currently on course to deliver a “good result” for 2020 with the recent tightening of COVID-19 restrictions across England and Scotland having a “relatively limited impact” on its operations.

Skyscanner has announced the appointment of former eBay executive Laurence Tracol as its new vice president of finance. The firm was founded in Edinburgh in 2003 and now currently employs around 1,500 staff globally.

Young people's energy and enthusiasm, technological skills and creativity will help boost Scotland's COVID-19 economic recovery, according to new research released today by Barclays' LifeSkills.

KPMG UK has appointed a new partner, three associate partners and four directors in Scotland as it prepares for further growth. The firm, which employs more than 1,200 people in Scotland, has promoted a total of 77 people across its offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, including Alistair McAl

The Designer Rooms, a Scottish-based furniture company, has secured an £850,000 CBILS funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to support the family firm as it navigates the effects of the pandemic. With eight showrooms located throughout Glasgow and Ayrshire, The Designer Rooms is a o

Business leaders fear a potential double hit from Covid and no-deal Brexit, new figures from the Institute of Directors reveal. In a survey of almost a thousand company directors conducted in late September, the majority said that the pandemic would magnify the impact of a no-deal Brexit on their or

Liz Mallon looks at the important role first time buyers need to play in the changing new homes property market. Recent research carried out by Savills shows that the Scottish new homes market has seen a steady recovery since the market re-opened in the summer, and properties in Glasgow and Edinburg

Edinburgh-based cyber security firm Adarma has seen a record year with revenues rising 27% to £41 million.

Scotmid Co-op has posted strong half-year results as its turnover increased by £6.7 million to £197m.

Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust, a fund managed by Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has posted a net asset value (NAV) drop of 11.4%.  For the six months to July 31 2020, the company delivered weak absolute but positive relative returns. Despite the drop in NAV, the company outperformed its

MHA Henderson Loggie has welcomed 11 new recruits to its trainee programme. Graduates Claire Don, Ewan Shiels, Euan Woodley and Adam Graham will join school-leavers Colette Swinley, Archie Williams and Wallis Lynch as trainee chartered accountants in the firm’s audit departments in Dundee

Matt Henderson, restructuring partner at Johnston Carmichael, reflects on the speculation of imminent corporate failures in the UK stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.  There’s been a lot of concern expressed that an imminent rise in corporate failures is on the cards as soon as s

Economy secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced a £10 million package of measures to recruit and retain apprentices, including additional funding for the Scottish Government’s Adopt an Apprentice programme.

Glasgow-based Shawbrook Bank has set aside £45.8 million of provisions to provide for potential future loan impairments caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The bank has today published its half-year financial results for the period ending 30 June 2020 revealing that Shawbrook Bank also granted

Not one of Scotland’s 48 listed companies features a black executive on its senior management team, according to new research conducted by The Ferret.