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Protest group Extinction Rebellion has targetted Baillie Gifford's Edinburgh office by barricading the entrance to the building.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed Aileen Mathieson as its new global head of insurance following the retirement of Stephen Acheson. In leading the Global Insurance team, Ms Mathieson will take responsibility for ASI’s global insurance remit in addition to her previous responsib

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed it will need at least another six months to investigate KPMG’s auditing of collapsed construction and services firm Carillion due to the scale and complexity of the case.

Baillie Gifford's Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust has appointed former PwC partner Caroline Roxburgh and McKinsey alumnus Jonathan Simpson-Dent as non-executive directors. The two will join the board on the 1st of February this year.

Leven Car Company, Scotland’s only Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce car dealership, has gone into administration with Leonard Curtis Business Rescue and Recovery appointed as its administrators.

Scotland is set for another bumper year of foreign direct investment (FDI) after Scottish Development International (SDI) revealed figures that showed the country’s attractiveness to business remains strong. SDI figures for 2018/19 have revealed that more than 10,000 planned jobs had been gene

Finance manager Joe McBridge has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Williamsburgh Housing Association. Mr McBride originally joined the senior management team of Williamsburgh Housing Association as finance manager in February 2002.

The number of first-time buyers in the UK has reached its highest level since 2007 as numbers reached an estimated 353,436 in 2019, according to data gathered by the Yorkshire Building Society.

In the wake of several closures of golf clubs, committee members have been warned to treat their clubs more like a business by insolvency experts MLM Solutions. MLM Solutions recently managed the sequestration and sale of Eastwood Golf Club in East Renfrewshire and of Mount Ellen Golf Club in Gartco

The third decade of devolution will see Scotland - and its business community - wrestle with an unprecedented period of change, Andrew McRae, of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Scotland has underlined in his festive message. Over the last two decades, Scotland’s smaller firms have rev

A mum from Essex is charging her Christmas guests £40 a head for their meal.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it will award £35,000 to almost 200 fraud victims who suffered at the hands of the HBOS Reading scam. The announcement to award the victims comes after the group was criticised for the way it handled treated small business owners whose livelihoods were a

Dundee-based learning and personal development company Insights Group has seen its profits rise by 40% thanks to domestic and international growth. The group saw a 29% increase in turnover to £68.9 million, according to its latest annual accounts.

St Andrews-based spirits and beer producer Eden Mill has toasted a successful year as the company saw an increase in annual revenues as the company predicts further success in the new year. The company saw total turnover increase by 48% to £8 million in the year to March, with the firm citing

The third decade of devolution will see Scotland - and its business community - wrestle with an unprecedented period of change, according to Andrew McRae, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses Scotland. Mr McRae said: “Over the last two decades, Scotland’s sma