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Seven innovative projects to support small food and drink producers in parts of the Highlands and Islands have been awarded a total of £169,750 through the Small Producers Pilot Fund. The successful initiatives in Skye, Easter Ross, Moray, the Outer Hebrides and Argyll and Bute will strengthen

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has closed its investigation into KPMG over the auditing firm's work on Entain, the owner of Ladbrokes. The probe, announced in January 2025, centred on Entain's financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022. It followed significant legal troubles for

A Scottish pastry-making business run by its founding family for four generations has become employee-owned. Cumbernauld-based William Sword says its transition to an employee ownership trust (EOT) will give the company’s 85-strong staff team direct control over their own future as they target

Zudu has appointed Paul Duffy as its new CEO, while the Scottish AI enablement and software development firm has moved its Edinburgh headquarters to Commercial Quay in Leith. Mr Duffy steps up to the CEO role from managing director as Zudu's founder James Buchan moves to lead ePass as CEO, a GovTech

Farmer Autocare has been acquired by Belfast-based Kerr’s Tyres Group, bringing together two family-run organisations with strong community roots. Farmer Autocare, a Scottish car maintenance and servicing business, was founded by Sir Tom Farmer in 2003. The Company has grown rapidly over recen

A family-run micro-distillery in Wester Ross is set for significant growth after securing a £105,215 investment from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Badachro Distillery Ltd, founded in 2018 by Gordon and Vanessa Quinn in the grounds of their home in Gairloch, has grown from a garden-sh

Edinburgh’s office market had an ‘encouraging’ start to the year, rebounding from a subdued 2025 despite the uncertainty caused by geopolitical issues, according to new research from Knight Frank.

AAB has announced the appointment of Jonathan Grainger as the firm's chief operating officer. He will lead AAB’s technology, operations and integration teams, driving the next phase of operational excellence and enabling the firm to embed end-to-end automation capability throughout its busines

Accountants and business advisors CT has promoted two of its colleagues to director level. Phil Pagan, from the firm’s Corporate Tax team, and Claire Proctor, CT’s Head of Payroll, will move into their new senior roles from April.

The University of Edinburgh has launched a new guide for those working with entrepreneurs to help them make their practice more inclusive. Launched at the Edinburgh Futures Institute yesterday, the Practitioner’s Guide to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Support is part of the University’s com

A cohort of Tayside business leaders will apply lessons learned from University of Dundee experts to help their organisations grow and thrive after successfully completing an innovative management initiative.

Around 300,000 people working from home in the UK will lose their annual home working allowance from this Monday (April 6th). Research by Azets, which has offices in Aberdeen, Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Perth, shows that HMRC estimates the abolition measure for homeworkers will save &pou

A collection of custom-painted skateboard decks is to be auctioned in aid of a new skate park on the Isle of Wight, as Freshwater Parish Council pushes to replace an ageing facility that has served the community for over two decades. The existing park, built in 2002 from wooden ramps, has reached th

AG Barr, maker of Irn-Bru, has reported adjusted pretax profit up 12.5% to £65.8 million for the 12 months to the end of January, as the company targets a doubling of its size by expanding into the growing healthy drinks market. Revenue rose 4% to £437.3m over the period, with cash gener

Scottish-headquartered independent MEP and sustainability consultancy Wallace Whittle is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its return to UK ownership. The firm, founded in 1964, reclaimed its roots with an amicable management buy-out from German giant TÜV SÜD in 2021, after 10 years und