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Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy Paul Wheelhouse MSP has attended a Falkirk Economic Partnership meeting to discuss the progress of the Grangemouth Investment Zone and related developments.

A new report from PwC and games entrepreneur, Ian Livingstone, has revealed that while UK creative industries are thriving, making a strong contribution to the UK GDP with growth ahead of the broader UK economy itself, more must be done if it is to cement its success as one of the UK’s prized asse

Investors are not abandoning sustainability but looking beyond labels to governance, resilience and long-term value, Aberdeen Investments has found in a new report that expects governance to become the dominant ESG differentiator by 2030. The company wrote a report titled 'The Age of Grounded Sustai

Listed recruitment company Connecting Excellence Group has acquired Glasgow-based specialist recruiter James Gray Recruitment and sister business James Gray Engineering in a deal that combines a Bitcoin treasury strategy with a deferred, earn-out-heavy structure and a new Bitcoin-backed credit line.

Fast-growth businesses in Scotland attracted over half a billion pounds of venture capital (VC) investment in the first half of 2022, according to the latest figures from KPMG UK. Despite investors becoming more cautious globally, there were 45 investments completed in Q2 2022, raising over &po

The CBI has called for more COVID-19 government help ahead of the Budget in March.

Police are warning that anyone can become a victim of bogus callers after authorities revealed figures showing Scottish householders lost more than £700,000 in just six months to doorstep scams.

Stacy Campbell Making a success of a pop-up store involves more than good location and footfall: retailers and landlords should also avoid some legal pitfalls, writes Stacy Campbell, Director in Lindsays’ Commercial Property team.

Despite the weak pound providing an incentive to overseas buyers, the UK’s attractiveness as a destination for cross-border M&A has fallen, according to EY’s 15th Global Capital Confidence Barometer.

Edinburgh-based broadband company, GoFibre, has completed a £125 million funding round that will support its delivery of two Project Gigabit contracts in the south and north east of Scotland, covering the Borders, East Lothian, Angus, Aberdeenshire and the Moray coast. The round is led by a &p

Iain Greig, a 38-year-old accounts junior at MHA, one of the UK's largest accountancy firms, has taken an unconventional path to his current role. It’s not often an aspiring accountant’s previous work experience includes 7,000 skydives, but MHA’s latest recruit is certainly a real

Aberdeen Asian Income Fund Limited, a fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), has posted strong results for the year ended 31 December 2020.  Over the 12 months ended 31 December 2020, the Company’s net asset value (NAV) increased in sterling terms +12.9%, compared to the MSC

Lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) has almost halved as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) since 2011, new research from Allica Bank has revealed. The challenger fintech revealed that the UK's 592,500 established SMEs employ around 10.7m people and generate 37% of private

Emma Barclay and Emily Couchlin introduce the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, highlighting its provisions for enhancing UK authorities' powers to combat fraudulent trading and economic exploitation, and discussing its implications for companies and limited partnerships. On 2

Scotland's hoteliers face challenging conditions as recovery looks set to stall following stronger than expected demand for rooms in 2022, PwC has warned.