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Dental-firm Oracare Scotland Ltd has acquired Cults Dental Practice in Aberdeen thanks to a £491,225 funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland.

The number of new tech start-ups in Scotland has increased by 57% in quarter three this year compared to quarter one data, according to new research conducted by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM.

Residential property, conveyancing and estate agency firm Simpson & Marwick is to become part of the Aberdeins Group following a de-merger from global law firm Clyde & Co. Rob Aberdein will join the firm as managing partner.

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

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

The growth of business activity in Scotland's private sector lost momentum in September, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI. The Scottish private sector continued to recover from the impact of COVID-19 last month, however, momentum was lost as the latest increase in growth was only m

Gillian Maclellan, partner at international law firm CMS, discusses the use of tracking technology to monitor employees working from home.  As employers across the UK now look at another sustained period of their workforce working from home, we are hearing tales of some using tracking technolog

Annual house price growth in the UK picked up to 5.0% in September, marking the highest rate in four years, according to Nationwide's latest house price index.

The amount of UK property sales that are made by first time buyers is set to fall for the first time in five years as banks across the country remove low-deposit mortgages from the market in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Scottish kilt maker Slanj has celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Glasgow this weekend, thanks to £243,000 in funding from Royal Bank of Scotland. The family firm, run by brothers Brian and Craig Halley, has been providing tartan to its clients for 25 years. In 2004 the company b

The UK government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme contributed to a "sharp fall in prices", experts have said after it was revealed inflation fell to a five-year low last month. Consumer price inflation across the UK fell from one per cent in July to just 0.2 per cent in August, the Office for National

The AccelerateHER programme, run by Scottish-based Investing Women, has teamed up with Barclays Ventures to offer specialist mentoring to some of the nation’s most promising female-led companies. Angel investors from Scotland’s only all-female angel group, Investing Women Angels, will de

The number of first-time buyers in Scotland is at a seven-year low, falling over a third (35%) since last year, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland. 

Aberdeenshire-based independent customs consultancy, Bethan Customs Consultancy, is celebrating its 5th birthday this month with a 69% rise in turnover, a new appointment to their growing team and an expanding client base. Despite the challenging commercial landscape over the last five months,

HMRC is to contact 3,000 companies across the UK every week over concerns that they have over-claimed for employees furloughed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). Since the scheme launched in April, over 1.2 million employers have applied to the scheme, protecting around 9.6 mi