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Lorraine Macphail Lorraine Macphail is head of property and construction, Scotland at Grant Thornton

Alasdair Gardner March saw a sharper deterioration in business conditions in Scotland’s private sector, according to the Bank of Scotland's latest survey.

Richard Pennycook Richard Pennycook, chief executive of the Co-operative, has requested that the group’s board members slash his pay by 60 per cent.

Image: Kwekwe A poor harvest in Madagascar, one of the world’s main suppliers of vanilla pods, has set the world on stand-by for a summer ice cream price hike.

A customer services adviser based at a Glasgow branch of the Bank of Scotland has admitted embezzling £39,000 from the accounts of two elderly customers. The crimes of Sean Adams, 30, only came to light when the daughter of one of his victims checked her mother’s statement when she was no longer

Alliance Trust’s strategy of buying back its own shares to improve investor returns has seen the Dundee-based global investment firm splash out almost £175 million in the last six months. Latest figures from the company revealed the cost of the concerted action embarked upon following a pledge to

Peter Dean, Managing director of Carrington Dean accepts official accreditation to the Glasgow Living Wage from Bailie Philip Braat, Treasurer of Glasgow City Council. Glasgow-based debt advice and solutions company Carrington Dean has become the first debt solutions specialist and the latest employ

Alastair Rae Scotland’s hospitality sector saw occupancy and revenue fall during 2015 due to the dramatic collapse in activity in Aberdeen according to the latest report by accountants and business advisers, BDO.

The Scottish Retail Consortium has slammed moves to increase business rates in Scotland ahead of Friday's main poundage rate hike and the doubling of the extra rates supplement paid by firms occupying medium and larger sized commercial premises. The SRC said the plan was "out of step" while shop vac

Andrew Holloway Andrew Holloway is head of technology & emerging markets in Scotland for Grant Thornton

Rising house prices have driven a deterioration in home affordability in Scottish cities for a third consecutive year, according to a Bank of Scotland report. The bank’s Affordable Cities Review found that the average Scottish city house price has risen by three per cent, from £176,009 in 2015 to

The ‘No’ result of the independence referendum was worth almost £9 billion to Scotland last year, research commissioned by an anti-independence campaign group has claimed. Scotland in Union hired finance consultants Europe Economics to examine the fiscal position of the country based on the lat

Ken Patullo Insolvency and professional services firm Begbies Traynor has won a major insolvency services contract for the Northern Ireland government’s Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI).

Scotland’s private sector economy slipped into contraction last month, according to latest data released by the Bank of Scotland. Services and manufacturing activity both declined as output levels deteriorated for the first time in three months, driven by a marginal decline in new order levels, th

A bumper £4bn profits haul and special dividend payout from insurance giant Prudential has buoyed London’s top flight index. The market value of the UK’s biggest insurer, which employs 1,300 staff at its Stirling hub, climbed nearly 3 per cent, or 38.5p, to £13.65 after it shrugged off global