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Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has made navigating around Scotland’s rich, natural larder a lot easier after producing a new mouth-watering new map of the country.

Dougal Gunn Sharp Edinburgh-based craft brewer Innis & Gunn has been approached by a US private equity firm with links to luxury goods group LVMH to buy a 27.9 per cent stake in the business.

Michelle Mone Glasgow-born business celebrity Michelle Mone has revealed plans to sell luxury flats in Dubai through bitcoin as part of a £250 million venture believed to be a global first.

Phil Merchant A major international survey commissioned by KPMG UK reveals that nearly half (46 per cent) of EU citizens working in Scotland may leave the country due to Brexit, with more than one-third (39 per cent) considering leaving and 7 per cent having already made up their minds to go.

Almost $6 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions have taken place in the UK oil and gas sector in the first half of the year – sending a strong vote of confidence in a basin that has been grappling with the challenges of a major downturn, a new report reveals today.

Chelsea Robertson receives the Caithness Glass Trophy with Professor Elizabeth Gammie, Head of Aberdeen Business School, and John Black of AAB. Aberdeen accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP, one, sponsors of The Robert Gordon University Best Final Year Student in Accounting and Finance

Benny Higgins A Scottish National Investment Bank will be established to take a ‘new approach’ on capital investment, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Scholar Internship Programme has placed four students with host companies in Canada thanks to a new visa partnership.

David Robertson HSBC has provided owners of Pozzi Ltd and Bijou by the Sea Ltd with substantial funds to upgrade and expand their existing group of four stores.

Niki McKenzie Scottish business angel investment syndicate Archangels has led a £1 million investment into a pump technology firm.

Sir Howard Davies Royal Bank of Scotland's non-executive director John Hughes is stepping down from the board due to ill health, just two months after he joined.

The 250-year-old history of one of Scotland’s most high profile small law firms came to an end over the weekend with the long-anticipated collapse of Pagan Osborne. Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser, partners with FRP Advisory, have been appointed as joint administrators.

John Macintosh and Graeme Roy Deloitte and the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute have agreed a partnership to provide businesses with enhanced insights into the Scottish economy.

Sandy Manson Scottish finance directors and CFOs are positive about the economic outlook, despite "domestic political factors" representing a barrier to growth, according to a new survey.

John Godfrey Scotland saw a drop in prosperity over the last year, reflecting uneven rates of growth in affluence across the UK, according to the third edition of the annual UK Prosperity Map from Barclays Wealth & Investments.