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The launch of Young Enterprise Scotland’s Square Go Start-Up Village in Rouken Glen Park Glasgow, took place last week (24 November), with East Renfrewshire Provost Mary Montague, conducting the official opening. Filling a gap for community start-up spaces that encourage and support young peop

Scottish cities were amongst the worst performers in the UK sports economy in 2020, but a new report has indicated that targeted government support can help a sector worth almost £250 million combined in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen drive future prosperity and create more jobs. The joint &l

The Department for International Trade (DIT) has announced the Fintech Champions for Scotland and Wales at the Board of Trade meeting in Wales yesterday. DirectID have been appointed as the Fintech Champions for Scotland, with Yoello selected as the Welsh Fintech Champion. They join the previously a

With Companies House data revealing that Edinburgh and south-east Scotland have the highest percentage of female entrepreneurs in the UK, Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has welcomed the rise in the number of female-led start-ups while stressing the importance of cashflow as a

The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) has recently secured two global energy conferences for 2023, with InterPore2023, and HYDRO 2023 set to see thousands of delegates arrive in Edinburgh next year, contributing millions of pounds in economic benefit to the city and region.

Hilton has revealed plans to open Motto by Hilton Glasgow on the banks of the River Clyde, extending the Motto by Hilton brand to the UK.

A tribunal has ruled that a group of employees are due nearly CA$500,000 (£308,000) in wages after their employer paid out 50% of their salaries with company gift cards. The Canadian Employment Standards Tribunal (EST) dismissed an application from the Vancouver-based Dayton Boots Company appe

The board of Scottish meat casings firm Devro announced a takeover agreement has been reached with a company owned by one of Germany's richest families. The deal with Bidco is for a cash acquisition of the entire issued valued at approximately £540 million on a fully diluted basis, implying an

Weir Group and abrdn are set to rejoin the FTSE 100 this week after their share prices have recovered since their respective relegations from the index. Abrdn dropped out of the FTSE 100 earlier this year after its share price fell to under 150p, but it has since recovered and is now trading at

Private conversations held between executives and their employees in connection to collusion on price fixing of Rangers FC merchandise have been published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In September the regulator handed out fines of £1.49 million, £459,000 and &poun

Two Glasgow-based businessmen have launched a recruitment agency dedicated entirely to the football industry. Founded by football agent and recruitment specialist, Stewart Macgregor, and professional youth coach, Piero Carrino, Football Careers Ltd, is targeting revenues of more than £1 m

Ian Macleod Distillers (IMD) is giving the public the chance to view its proposals for a whisky maturation warehouse scheme at Bandeath Industrial Estate in Throsk, located outside Fallin.

Glasgow-based construction firm Gap Group has announced that it will boost the pay of 83% of its employees with a £1 million bonus. With the aim of helping employees with the cost of living crisis, the £1m bonus is in addition to existing annual performance and Christmas bonuses and

Global demand for fine and rare single malt Scotch whisky has continued to drive up both the volume and value of auction sales as investors flock to the alternative asset, according to a new report by investment bank Noble & Co. Noble & Co worked with data science business Brainnwave to coll

Edinburgh-based healthtech company Hearing Diagnostics has completed a £1.1 million funding round and is now eyeing commercialisation in the domestic and US markets. Led by angel investment syndicate Archangels, the funding will unlock the spatial hearing screening technology’s market po