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One in ten smaller businesses in Scotland is led by an immigrant entrepreneur and these firms contribute more than £13 billion to the Scottish economy and provide 107,000 jobs, according to a ground-breaking report. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) commissioned the Hunter Centre at the

The first three months of this year saw house prices in Aberdeen (city and suburbs) drop by 4.3 per cent from the final quarter of last year, according to latest data published in a new report from Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre.

Scottish law firm Brodies has unveils six new partners as a result of its latest round of promotions, and reports 6 per cent growth in people in the last 12 months. Aberdeen-based Leigh Gould, Rhona McFarlane and Fiona Herrell step up to partner in their respective areas of personal and family, corp

A Fife engineering firm has safeguarded its future by moving into employee ownership. EQ Chartered Accountants LLP has supported Ladybank-based G S Brown Limited into an Employee Ownership Trust structure.

Aberdeen continues to lead the way as the city with the highest rate of innovative businesses across Scotland’s 32 local authority areas. A total of 250 Aberdeen companies (2.6 per cent of all enterprises in city), including SMEs and large businesses, claimed for R&D tax relief in the late

The Bank of England has today announced that interest rates are to remain at 0.75 per cent where they have been since the Bank of England last raised them by a quarter of a percentage point last August. At the moment, the Bank said it is expecting just one rise in interest rates by 2021.

Young workers are unaware of the rights they hold within their workplaces, new research from UIA Mutual Insurance has found.

A new report has revealed that online retail giant Amazon uses a stringent set of metrics built into its vast dispatch hubs to not only track the performance of workers in the warehouses but to automatically fire them if they fail to meet certain standards.

A health care provider with 32 homes throughout Scotland has collapsed into administration. Four Seasons Health Care (FSHC) has eight homes in Glasgow, six in Fife, five in Aberdeenshire and four in Edinburgh which could all be affected along with others in Ayrshire and Lothian.

KPMG been slammed in yet another audit case and fined £6 million by the Financial Reporting Council which has also "severely reprimanded" the so-called 'Big Four' firm. The accountancy regulator also ordered the firm to undertake an internal review over the way it audited insurance compan

The Scottish Government has launched an ambitious growth plan that will aim to increase the value of exports from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of Scotland’s GDP over the next 10 years.

Britain’s free-to-use ATM network is on course to be decimated in the coming months unless urgent action is taken to protect access to cash, new research from consumer watchdog Which? has revealed.

The Scottish economy grew by 1.3 per cent last year, coming up just short of the UK figure of 1.4 per cent, new official figures from the Scottish government have revealed.

New official figures have revealed that the business rate poundage is at its highest in two decades. In response to a written parliamentary question published on the Scottish Parliament website, ministers confirmed that both the headline poundage/tax rate and the large business rates supplement have

In 2019 Quarter 1, the quantity of retail sales in Scotland grew by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous quarter, according to the Retail Sales Index Scotland (RSIS) which was published today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician.