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Steamer Trading, the speciality kitchenware retailer with 38 stores across the UK, has been sold to trade kitchenware retailer ProCook in a deal that does not include the business’ only Scottish outlet. As part of the sales process, Steve Absolom and Will Wright of KPMG were appointed joi

Duncan Raggett, Nicola Rollings and Neil Dempsey Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors, Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced the appointment of Duncan Raggett as restructuring manager in their growing restructuring & recovery (R2) division.

A reduction in grant funding and additional pressures mean the Highland Council is facing a £31.2 million budget gap for 2019-20, the local authority has warned.

Nine estate agents have gone bust every week since 2010, according to an Edinburgh-based property management firm. DJ Alexander Ltd, one of the UK’s largest family-run property management businesses, has analysed official data and found that 4,258 estate agency businesses have gone bust since

The total office market take-up in Edinburgh in the fourth quarter of 2018 was 208,029 sq ft, down from the Q3 figure of around 275,000 sq ft, according to the latest research from CBRE Scotland. The biggest Grade A deal was the new letting and part regear of Exchange Plaza, where Burness Paull took

From space asteroid mining and artisan bacon production to the renovation of a gin distillery, Business Gateway has reported that more than 53,000 customers connected with it in 2018 and it is set to build on its track record with the launch of a new campaign. Scotland’s national bus

Edinburgh-based investment management firm Brooks Macdonald has today announced plans to “streamline” its business in a move expected to result in some 50 redundancies. The firm said it expects the changes to cost £3m – a one-off expense which it intends to exclude

Following news this week that his company has just become the most valuable in the world, it has now emerged that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is to split from his wife in what is being suggested could result in the biggest divorce settlement in history.

A no-deal Brexit would have “profound” economic consequences the UK economy, with GDP shrinking by up to 8 per cent and thousands of jobs being put at risk, the head of the Confederation of British Industry is to warn today. However, the industry body says UK businesses believe that

(Right to left) Economy secretary, Derek MacKay, digital economy minister, Kate Forbes, Jim Pettigrew, FiSAB co-chair and chairman of CYBG plc, Stephen Ingledew, chief executive, FinTech Scotland FinTech Scotland has confirmed that the number of innovative fintech SMEs based in Scotland has grown by

Last year saw customer preference for app-based banking overtake the other three channels of online, in-branch and over-the-phone, it has been reported.

A woman who made a £1.6 million fortune by selling fake treatments for weight loss and cancer has been banned from running a company for six years, The Times reports. Carol Wiseman, 51, and her sister Helen Buchan, 52, both from Fraserburgh, claimed that their Secret Diet Drops

Mackinnons Solicitors, with offices in Aberdeen, Cults and Aboyne, have announced the appointment of Neil Torrance as a partner to the firm and of Sarah Newnham as an associate. The business of Iain Smith Solicitors LLP, Queens Road, Aberdeen has been incorporated into the firm of Mackinnons an

A cocaine addicted financial controller has admitted embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds for a second time to fund her lavish lifestyle. Kerryanne Clarke from Coatbridge pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to taking more than £250,000 from Bell Building Projects in Govan using company

Latest official data published today shows that growth in the UK's economy slowed in the three months to November to slump to its weakest pace for half a year. The economy grew by 0.3 per cent during the period, less than the 0.4 per cent in the three months to October, the Office for National Stati