Loganair has announced that it will award a further £30,000 to organisations across the UK and Northern Ireland in support of local renewable energy projects as part of its Greenskies Community Fund. As part of the airlines journey to net-zero by 2040, earlier this year, the airline distribute
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Redmill Advance has been acquired by London-based professional training and coaching firm Kinrock for an undisclosed sum. Redmill Advance has grown to become a market leading provider of regulatory qualification training and continued professional development services to the UK wealth management ind
Deloitte has donated a total of 6,865 laptops to schools, charities and community groups across the UK since first committing to donating the firm’s used laptops in 2021. Over half (3,600) of the reconditioned laptops have been donated to pupils from 58 schools across the UK, including 25 of D
McGill’s Buses have now completed their acquisition of First Scotland East and vowed that local management will be empowered to make decisions for local services serving local people. The deal was announced earlier in September and has now been officially completed. McGill’s Group has ta
The Scottish Premier Football League has finalised a £150 million deal with Sky Sports to broadcast more SPFL matches than ever before with the addition of Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) fixtures.
Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business advisory service, is launching a series of free virtual events to support businesses in their continued recovery post-pandemic amid the current challenging climate.
PwC is on track to meet targets for ethnicity and gender representation by grade by 2025, according to the firm's full year Annual Report.
Grant Thornton has released its Scotland Limited Report 2022 identifying the country’s Top 100 private limited companies and exploring what lies behind their position as the nation’s most dynamic and successful businesses. The Scotland Limited Report is compiled using the most recent pub
Scottish independent pharmacy operator Eastwood Pharmacy Group has acquired a new store in Airdrie thanks to a £5.7 million funding package from HSBC UK. The Glasgow-based firm is expanding after it used the funding to acquire McNish Pharmacy in Caldercruix, Airdrie, which has been part of the
A.G. Barr, the maker of Irn-Bru, has reported a 22.8% rise in pre-tax profits to £25.3 million from £20.6m in its interim results ending 31 July 2022. The profits were on revenues of £157.9m, a 20% rise from the same period last year on a like-for-like basis. The company announced
The 6th annual Scottish Start-up Survey has revealed that the nation’s tech companies are in a resilient mood in the face of concerns around economic headwinds.
The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme has been expanded in order to provide vital support to Scottish start ups during a challenging economic period. The programme now includes start ups that have been trading for up to three years and second Start Up Loans are now availabl
Perth-based Balhousie Care Group has been bought by international health care firm AcalisCare in a multi-million-pound deal.
Ten companies have been awarded a total of £9.4 million to help Scottish industries reduce carbon emissions through decarbonisation and energy efficiency projects. The recipients from the second round of the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF) are predominantly involved in t
Half of Scottish workers are spending at least one day a week at home, new figures from a government survey has revealed. In the survey of 1200 firms in Scotland, 32.6% said their workers were in the office one or two days a week, while a further 16.5% were in three to four days a week.