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WellFish Diagnostics, a new spinout company from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), will benefit from a £1.2 million investment from the University, Kelvin Capital and Scottish Enterprise. The funding will be used to help transform health diagnostic practices in the £245 billi

Senior public sector finance leader Elaine Boyd and fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the new chair of ACCA Scotland’s committee. Glasgow-based Elaine Boyd is the associate director at Audit Scotland where she heads the organisation’s quality assuranc

A string of clients wins by its healthcare and digital divisions have helped to drive growth at Edinburgh-based creative agency Leith. An international vaccine awareness campaign for the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) was one of the age

Scottish offshore support vessel specialist Sentinel Marine has taken delivery of a new Multi-role Offshore Support Ship following a £62,000,000 refinancing package, equally split between HSBC Equipment Finance Ltd (HEF) and Clydesdale Bank.

Michael Reid, managing partner at Meston Reid & Co, discusses the intricacies of entering an insolvent liquidation process. The Meston Reid & Co insolvency team has already assisted a number of companies to enter an insolvent liquidation process, with many directors citing the ongoing effect

Old Mother Hunt, a business that specialises in manufacturing small batches of spiced rums, has successfully launched with help from Business Gateway. The owners have gone on to increase its organic search traffic by 100% since launching in November 2020, by working with the support service.

A rare ‘leopard’ coin found by Norfolk detectorist is expected to sell for £140,000 at an upcoming auction. The florin coin dates from January 1344 and was minted in 23-carat gold at the Tower of London.

Colliers expects UK all-property total returns growth to moderate to 9.6% in 2022 and 6.4% in 2023 as rental growth slows and yields stabilise, following a six-year high of 16.5% in 2021. The industrial sector will continue to remain popular with investors this year as will retail warehouses, prime

Scottish footfall decreased by 17.5% in February (Yo2Y), 1.3 percentage points worse than January, according to the latest Scottish Footfall Monitor from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ.

Businesses in Scotland are being urged to withdraw from trading with Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine. Finance and economy secretary Kate Forbes has asked companies to take “economic action” by reviewing operations for links and connections to Russia and severing them.

FinTech Scotland has published a ground-breaking Research and Innovation (R&I) Roadmap with the objective of boosting economic recovery, driving growth and creating jobs over the next ten years. Over the ten-year period, the ambition will be to deliver in Scotland an additional 20,000 plus finte

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is keeping the pressure on the UK Government to fulfil its recent commitments on assessing the environmental impact of trade deals and domestic tax measures.

Lewis Sadowski has joined the CBRE team as a senior surveyor and will be based in the Glasgow office. He joins from CBRE’s Property Management team where he worked for the last five years. In his new role in the Retail team Lewis will work alongside director Chris Humphrey, assisting with ongo

The Scottish Government has set up a new working group that will consider the economic opportunities available to Gaelic-speaking communities in Scotland. The Short Life Working Group on Economic and Social Opportunities for Gaelic will have representation from a range of sectors with experience of

Mackay Corporate Insurance Brokers has appointed three senior directors to join its team in Aberdeen as part of a £1 million investment in the company. David Binnie and Steven Thomson, former directors at Central Insurance Services and formerly Marsh, joined MacKay Corporate this week, and Dar