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A distillery on the UK’s most northerly inhabited island and a rapidly growing Edinburgh headquartered firm supplying archaeology services are amongst the shortlisted businesses for the Federation Small Business’s Celebrating Small Business Awards. Shetland Distillery Company have been n

Businesses in the Inverness area are being given the opportunity to learn how to create the most effective digital strategy from a leading expert in the field. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has launched a series of digital strategy workshops, as part of its Entrepreneurial Academy.

Women in Hungarian with four children or more are to be exempted for life from paying income tax, the country's prime minister has announced.

Progeny Group has announced the acquisition of Edinburgh’s Innovate Financial Services, marking the English wealth manager and financial planning firm’s first expansion into Scotland. Over the last decade Innovate has built its reputation as the financial planning and wealth management f

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to this week post its second consecutive annual profits notice and hand out a £335m bonus pot to staff, a decade since its £45 billion government bailout.

The Scottish Government has today published the analysis of responses to the public consultation on the Scottish National Investment Bank Bill which ran from September to October last year. Today's document is the first of many milestones for the nation's first investment bank in 2019 as

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published today, show that the UK’s economy grew by just 0.2 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2018, down from 0.6 per cent over the three months to September.

Output across Scotland's private economy declined for a second successive month at the start of 2019, the first time since August 2016 that a back-to-back drop in activity has been recorded. According to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI, new business also fell in January, enabling firms to clea

Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Yvonne Brady, specialist insolvency advisor in the firm's corporate & restructuring recovery team, has been elected to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Scotland Council. Ms Brady begins a three-year term, during which she will draw on her expe

The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 12.0 per cent last month, an increase from 11.1 per cent in October 2018, and above the average vacancy rate for the UK, which is 9.9 per cent.

In the recent J&B Hopkins (“J&BH”) Upper Tier Tax Tribunal VAT case, the court agreed with HMRC’s view that the business should be assessed for underpaid VAT, even though the business felt that HMRC would unfairly benefit from such an assessment, writes Tony Cochrane, VAT s

An independent commission to advise on a 30-year strategy for infrastructure investment has appointed its final members. The Infrastructure Commission, chaired by Ian Russell CBE, will provide independent, informed advice on the vision, ambition and priorities for infrastructure in Scotland.

Vastint Hospitality is to continue its regeneration of Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge with the submission of new mixed-use proposals. Architecture practice 3DReid has lodged plans with the City of Edinburgh Council for 234 homes for private rent as well as s

Proposed changes to the UK’s immigration system don’t meet the needs of Scotland’s business community, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) will warn an influential committee of MPs tomorrow. At a session with Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee, the small busin

NFU Scotland’s Perth branch agents attended the insurer’s AGM held at the Radisson Blue hotel in Glasgow last week where they were awarded The Membership Flame Award.