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A pair of Michael Jordan championship Air Jordan trainers have been sold for a record-breaking $8m (£6.33m) at auction.

The Scottish National Investment Bank has appointed Gary Page as a new non-executive director of its board. Mr Page has built a portfolio of non-executive roles in the private, public and charitable sectors after a career in the City, in a range of commercial and investment banking jobs. He served o

Highland Coast Hotels, the Scottish-based hotel group, has added its eighth property to its portfolio.

Scotland's property sales volumes have gone up in the November 2023 – January 2024 period, according to the latest ESPC House Price Report.

Scottish retail sales were stunted in the first four weeks of 2024, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SCR) and KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.

A family-run business based in Lanarkshire has successfully expanded its services to offer the latest drone technology across the UK after its owners accessed support from Business Gateway.

A £1 million project has encouraged more than 100 small to medium sized enterprises across Scotland’s manufacturing industry to explore the potential of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques – industrial 3D printing – that could add value and open up new commercial opportun

Figures published today from KPMG UK’s Fraud Barometer, which records alleged fraud cases with a value of £100k and above, has shown the number of reported fraud cases outside of the London region rose to 183 cases in 2023, up from 172 in 2022. Within this, the Midlands had 37 cases reac

Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is currently powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage. The £2 million demonstrator initiative, which is currently nearing 12 mo

R&B Distillers Limited, the Scottish spirits company co-founded by Bill Dobbie and Alasdair Day in 2014, has revealed a significant reorganisation of its senior executive team. William Dobbie, who served as commercial director, has been appointed as the new managing director, while his father, B

SMEs and organisations-focused Unity Trust Bank has appointed Colin Fyfe as its CEO. Mr Fyfe joins Unity with more than 40 years’ experience in the banking sector including 10 years as CEO at two building societies. With a deep understanding of commercial business and the wider regulatory bank

Pictured (L-R): Foras co-founder Dec McLaughlin; Colin Graham, partner and chair of Thorntons; Foras co-founder Caro Melendez; Alistair Lang, partner and head of ventures and innovation at Thorntons; Foras co-founder Nick Murray Thorntons Solicitors and Foras have formed a new strategic partnership

A fraudster has succeeded in swindling over £20 million from a company by using deepfake technology to pose as its chief financial officer. In a cautionary tale for the AI age, the scam saw a finance worker in the Hong Kong office of a multinational firm invited via email to join a video call

Changes to what constitutes a high-net-worth individual (HNWI) are likely to have the unintended consequence of negatively impacting on women investors and women-founded businesses in Scotland, investment specialists have said. From 31 January 2024, new regulations under the Financial Promotions Ord

Gilson Gray has expanded its footprint in Dundee and Angus, following the takeover of Bowmans Solicitors. The firm will also now double its space at 2 West Marketgait in the city centre, taking on another floor of the flagship building, as well as gaining an additional office in Forfar. A team of 11