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Outsourcing group Mitie is under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over the timing and content of two profit warnings last year. In an announcement to the stock market this morning, the company said the investigation relates to “the timeliness of a profit warning announced by

Philip Sim Harper Macleod has advised Aprirose, the real estate investment company, on the Scottish aspects of a deal to buy a 73-asset pub portfolio from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B).

Scotland's leading financial firms have drawn up restructuring plans to deal with the potential impact of Brexit, The Scotsman reports. Scottish Financial Enterprise, which represents firms including Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows, has told the Scottish Parliament's Europe committee that

Burger King has unexpectedly entered the highly-competitive cryptocurrency market by setting up a new digital currency in Russia. Customers at Burger King's restaurants in Russia will receive one WhopperCoin for every rouble they spend in the store, with a Whopper burger redeemable for 1,700 Whopper

Steve Williams Business advisory firm Deloitte increased its revenue by £340 million last year in what it's called a "transformative 12 months" in Scotland.

A former administrator of Rangers is suing the Lord Advocate and others over a move to freeze his assets in 2015. David Whitehouse was appointed to the former club, Rangers Football Club PLC, with Paul Clark in 2012 after Craig Whyte declared it insolvent.

Graeme Bradshaw The Scottish Retail Consortium recently reported that almost one in ten retail premises in Scotland now lies empty. Retail footfall in Scotland fell in July and there are a dwindling number of months in any year where any growth at all is evident.

Pictured (l-r): Tony Friar and Blair Nimmo Kitchen and bedroom manufacturer Trade Kitchen Centre Limited has applied to Glasgow Sheriff Court to be wound up under the Insolvency Act 1986.

Claire Drummond A scheme which encourages young people in Aberdeen to get involved with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) has received a welcome donation from the charitable arm of Aberdeen Asset Management.

Richard Hepburn Land and property search organisation Millar & Bryce has appointed Richard Hepburn as its new managing director.

There are now 21,000 people in Scotland earning more than £150,000, almost twice as many as there were just seven years ago. New research from Scottish Labour, using HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data, shows that the number of individual Additional Rate taxpayers in Scotland increased by 91 per cen

David Lonsdale The Scottish Retail Consortium is seeking the prioritisation of measures to support consumer spending and lift private sector investment in the Scottish Government’s autumn Budget.

A single shot of Macallan whisky was sold for $10,000 at a hotel in Switzerland, its owner has said. A young, unnamed Chinese man paid up for a glass of the Scottish distiller's 1878 whisky in the luxury Waldhaus Hotel in St. Moritz.

Ken McCormack Business rates expert Ken McCormack has joined Montagu Evans as a partner in its Glasgow office, where he will lead the firm's Scottish rating work.

Kate Wyatt Despite a partial reprieve, employers in the social care sector must take swift action to comply with rules on paying workers appropriately for sleep-in shifts, writes Kate Wyatt.