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Dundee-based law firm Blackadders LLP is set to reinforce its service offering by merging with Aberdeen-based solicitors, Plenderleath Runcie. The merger underpins Blackadders’ ongoing growth strategy and will result in the firm increasing its talent pool to 28 partners and more than 230 staff

Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and leading light in the Scottish entrepreneurial community, Paul Atkinson has joined WeDO Scotland as chairman. Established in 2008, WeDO Scotland is the country’s most exclusive peer to peer learning, collaboration, leadership and knowledge e

The Scottish labour market continued to tighten during January. Permanent staff appointments and temporary billings both rose further, but rates of increase softened in each case, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.

Scotland’s capital has taken another step towards becoming the first UK city to charge a tourist tax after the move was approved by Edinburgh city councillors.

The UK’s rare whisky auction market has exceeded sales of more than 100,000 bottles of rare whisky in a single year for the first time as global demand accelerates.

Global payments firm Mastercard is to launch a "sonic brand identity" so that whenever and wherever consumers engage with Mastercard – via physical, digital or voice platforms – the "distinct and memorable Mastercard melody" will now be heard.

The Edinburgh-based Scottish American Investment Trust (SAINTS), which counts  Coca-Cola and Microsoft among its most significant holdings, has announced market-beating returns for its shareholders for 2018 and raised its payout for the 39th year in a row. The Baillie Gifford-man

North Ayrshire-based Cunninghame Housing Association has secured a £30 million Private Placement Investment from insurance giant Canada Life to part fund its ongoing approved new build housing development programme. The £30m funding together with ongoing Scottish Gove

Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Yvonne Brady, specialist insolvency advisor in the firm's corporate & restructuring recovery team, has been elected to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Scotland Council. Ms Brady begins a three-year term, during which she will draw on her expe

Vastint Hospitality is to continue its regeneration of Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge with the submission of new mixed-use proposals. Architecture practice 3DReid has lodged plans with the City of Edinburgh Council for 234 homes for private rent as well as s

In the recent J&B Hopkins (“J&BH”) Upper Tier Tax Tribunal VAT case, the court agreed with HMRC’s view that the business should be assessed for underpaid VAT, even though the business felt that HMRC would unfairly benefit from such an assessment, writes Tony Cochrane, VAT s

Proposed changes to the UK’s immigration system don’t meet the needs of Scotland’s business community, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) will warn an influential committee of MPs tomorrow. At a session with Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee, the small busin

Output across Scotland's private economy declined for a second successive month at the start of 2019, the first time since August 2016 that a back-to-back drop in activity has been recorded. According to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI, new business also fell in January, enabling firms to clea

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to this week post its second consecutive annual profits notice and hand out a £335m bonus pot to staff, a decade since its £45 billion government bailout.

The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 12.0 per cent last month, an increase from 11.1 per cent in October 2018, and above the average vacancy rate for the UK, which is 9.9 per cent.