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Aberdeenshire-based craft beer and crowdfunding pioneer Brewdog has reported a slight fall in profits despite revenues soaring 51 per cent to hit £44.73 million. Latest results from the Ellon business for the year to December 31 show administrative expenses almost doubled in the year from £7.77m i

Ian Bremner Scottish accountancy and business services firm French Duncan has boosted its hospitality and leisure team by appointing Ian Bremner as its new hotel accounting director.

Niall Booker The Co-operative Bank has reported a pre-tax loss of £610m for 2015, more than doubling its losses of £264m a year ago and bringing it under fresh pressure from regulators to accelerate an overhaul of its business three years after it nearly collapsed.

Peter Dean, Managing director of Carrington Dean accepts official accreditation to the Glasgow Living Wage from Bailie Philip Braat, Treasurer of Glasgow City Council. Glasgow-based debt advice and solutions company Carrington Dean has become the first debt solutions specialist and the latest employ

Mark Wilson UK insurance giant Aviva, which employs about 1,300 staff at its hub in Perth, has revealed that chief executive Mark Wilson has more than doubled his pay packet having won praise over the £5.6 billion acquisition of Friends Life last April and guiding the firm to bumper profits.

Edinburgh-based Scottish Widows is to launch a new Employer Hub as the first in a series of digital developments which will form the bedrock of its recently announced £50m Driving Pensions Value programme. As part of Scottish Widows’ investment in digital development to support the evolving needs

Apex City of Bath. Edinburgh-headquartered Apex Hotels has secured a £29milion funding package from Bank of Scotland to expand its UK portfolio with the development of its first hotel in England.

David Nish The former Standard Life chief executive David Nish is to join the board of HSBC on 1 May.

Michelle Le Prevost (Image: Robert Perry) Black & Lizars, one of Scotland's largest independently-owned optometrists, has appointed a leading UK health care business professional as its new managing director to lead the company to its next stage.

The Scottish Government has unveiled a £50 million investment in charitable bonds over the next two years to provide support for almost 1,000 new homes. Kingdom Housing Association in Fife, Eildon Housing Association in the Borders as well as Orkney Housing Association and Ayrshire Housing Associat

Detached home owners in Scotland looking to downsize could be in line for a potential windfall of over £100,000 if they trade down to a semi-detached property, according to the latest research from Bank of Scotland. Those planning to move from a detached properly to a bungalow could raise an averag

Katherine Garrett-Cox Katherine Garrett-Cox will leave Dundee-based investment firm Alliance Trust today with a redundancy payment of £668,000 and share options worth £5million.

Tax that the UK Supreme Court today ruled should have been paid on bonuses handed out over a decade ago will now have to be paid by investment banking giants Deutsche Bank and UBS. The bonuses were paid to investment bankers via offshore accounts in the form of shares to avoid attracting income tax

Philip Rodney Burness Paull LLP has secured its position as Scotland’s biggest and busiest transactional corporate law firm in Business Insider’s list of the top performing legal dealmakers.