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Edinburgh-based Oatcake maker Nairn's has made £4.8 million in pre-tax profits in the year to May 25, an increase on the £3.8m made in the preceding period, a welcome result as the company prepares for Brexit. The firm also saw sales increase to £33.4m from £30m in its previo

Paysend, the UK-based fintech business, has expanded its global reach by launching its money transfers service to Japan and South Korea. Users are now able to send money to Japan and South Korea using card-to-card or account transfers.

English TV health guru Jason Vale is one of the new clients who have helped to drive Midlothian glamping pod company Armadilla to reach a turnover of £2 million. Mr Vale has ordered pods from the company to be housed at one of his resorts in Portugal.

Dundee sushi restaurant Kobee, located on Dock Street, is the latest in a triage of restaurants in Dundee's city centre to close its doors in recent weeks. The restaurant on Dock Street's potential shut down follows the closure of the nearby Castlehill and Giza eateries.

Dundee jewellery store H. Samuel is to close down after more than a century of trading.

Edinburgh Napier University has received a funding gift from Trimble to establish a state-of-the-art technology lab for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC).

The International Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has appointed the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Josephine Jackson to its board. Her appointment will commence on 1 January 2020 and will be for an initial term of three years. Ms Jackson is the FRC’s technical

The damage caused in the movie Home Alone would have cost almost £9,000 to fix, according to research. According to Mr Carl Goulding from MyBuilder.com, Kevin McCallister's 4,250ft, three-storey Winnetka, Illinois home featured in the film would have racked up nearly £9,000 worth of repa

KPMG has cut the average pay of each of its 621 equity partners by £52,000 after the firm experienced a decline in profits. The average pay for KPMG's partners fell by £52,000 to ££549,000 last year. This amount is lower than that for partners at the other Big Four firms. Del

Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn is well on the way to building the largest major brewery in Edinburgh for over 150 years as it’s ‘Beer Money’ crowdfunding campaign sails past the crucial £2 million mark.

Coventry Building Society has released a statement which admits the society's exaggeration of its financial strength for the last 11 years due to a calculation error. The building society issued a capital update last night which corrected the company's calculation of risk-weighted assets.

St James's Place Wealth Management (SJP) has today announced its acquisition of the Linlithgow-based financial advice firm Policy Services Ltd (PSL). PSL has been a longstanding provider of administration, fee reconciliation and advice services to partners of SJP and their clients who hold non-

Edinburgh-based Specialized Signs, a signs and graphics company, has purchased the very first HP R1000 printer in Scotland, enabling the company to print far faster and more efficiently, following a six-figure funding package from HSBC UK. The business predicts this will lead to an increase in turno

House prices in Scotland continued to hold up in November, despite ongoing uncertainty and a subdued picture regarding activity, according to the monthly Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

St Andrews-based Ceres Holographics has been awarded a €1.4 million  European Commission Horizon 2020 grant to accelerate the commercialisation of its holographic technology. Ceres Hologrpahics is an innovative developer of thin-film Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs) for next-genera