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Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG have been appointed as joint administrators of Kast Retail Limited, which is the loss-making standalone division of the fashion retailer Quiz. The two were appointed joint administrators by the company's directors on June 10.

The Scottish Government has set a provisional date for tourism businesses to resume operations. The resumption of tourism businesses on July 15 is dependent on public health advice and progression to Phase 3 of the Scottish Government lockdown route-map.

Glasgow-based fashion company Quiz has announced that it is placing the division that runs its 82 standalone stores into administration.

Reach Commercial Finance, the funding and brokerage arm of Glasgow-based Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group, has made the shortlist for three awards in a scheme run by industry trade body National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). NACFB, who is running the awards initiative for

Allied Irish Bank (GB) has donated £2,000 to charities in Scotland to support communities through the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Edinburgh branch has donated £1,000 to Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids, while the Glasgow team gave £1,000 to the Peek Project in the east end of the

Family-owned Crieff Hydro Group has announced that 241 members of staff will be made redundant at the start of August. The firm which owns seven rural hotels is planning to cut over a quarter of its staff across the group's hotel portfolio.

Standard Life Aberdeen has told the majority of its staff to work from home until the end of this year. Yesterday the company told 4,900 UK employees working from home during the UK's lockdown not to expect to come back to the office this year.

Employer confidence has started to pick back up in some Scottish cities, according to the latest job market data from CV-Library.

Kris Keane, director at big-four audit firm Deloitte, details how firms can emerge from lockdown stronger than when they entered it. A typical crisis plays out over three time frames: ‘respond’, in which a company deals with the present situation and manages continuity; ‘recover&rs

Melrose-based housebuilder Rural Renaissance Limited (RRL) has secured a six-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland to support its working capital, enabling it to continue to pay suppliers and honour its contractual commitments during the coronavirus crisis. RRL is parent company to

Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has appointed Chad Griffin as its new partner to be based in Scotland.   Mr Griffin joins FRP Advisory from FTI Consulting in London, an independent practice that he helped launch and grow for the last 15 years. 

A joint venture owned by property entrepreneurs Bruce Linton and David Cameron has acquired north-east housebuilder Scotia Homes for an undisclosed sum. The Ellon firm said it had been acquired by Camlin Group, with the size of the majority stake also undisclosed.

Ondine, one of Edinburgh’s finest seafood restaurants, has secured a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan from Barclays.

In the last two years, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured more than £47 million in refunds for customers whose banks failed to properly warn them about unarranged overdraft charges.

One in four UK businesses using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme have warned that they will not be able to top up salaries after the scheme is cut back in September, according to a new survey released by the Institute of Directors (IoD). The UK Government announced earlier this month that it wou