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Accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its leadership team with five senior promotions across the business. Three people have joined the firm’s partnership group and two have been promoted to director level. A further 92 people were promoted across the busi

AAB Wealth has acquired Bishopbriggs-based Synergy Financial Planning, bringing its total assets under advice (AUA) to over £800 million. The deal combines the expertise of 37 professionals across the Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland, all of whom are dedicated to helping families and in

The City of Richmond took a local businessman to court over unpaid taxes, only to discover they actually owed him a refund. Jeffrey Marks was served a warrant for $658 (around £516) in unpaid business taxes in December 2023. However, Marks had sold his advertising business, Promotion

The Edinburgh International Book Festival and Baillie Gifford have ended their 20-year partnership, following the withdrawal of several authors and threats of disruption from activists. The festival board said the pressure had become "intolerable", and, as a result, believe their ability to del

Ian Macleod Distillers, the owner of Rosebank Distillery, has reported a 20% dip in pre-tax profits to £33.8 million for the year ending 30 September 2023, despite a 1% increase in turnover.

The Scottish Land Commission has published its response to the Call for Views on the Land Reform Bill issued by the Scottish Parliament’s Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee. Michael Russell, chair of the Scottish Land Commission, said: “We welcome the Land Reform Bill, introduced b

Irwin Mitchell Scotland staff have moved into Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie’s (WJM) Glasgow and Edinburgh offices following the firm’s strategic investment in WJM last year. In Glasgow, 13 Irwin Mitchell staff will now be based out of the Grade A office space at St Vincent Plaza.

Scottish shopper footfall has experienced a significant decline in May, showing a 5.4% year-on-year decrease.

Scottish charity WorkingRite has partnering with abrdn to expand its impactful in-school employability programme 'Rite to Work' (RtW). The new partnership was launched as part of the abrdn Charitable Foundation's global powerful partnerships and aligns with their focus on investing in tomorrow&rsquo

RBS-owner NatWest Group has bought back a further £1.24 billion worth of its own shares from HM Treasury. This works out to 392.4 million shares bought back from the government at 316.2p per share, and, combined with HMT’s ongoing trading plan, reduces government ownership in the bank to

Aberdeen-headquartered drilling waste management firm TWMA has posted earnings of $18.3 million (around £14.4m) and EBITDA of $4.7m (around £3.7m), for the first quarter of 2024. The company's continued growth has been reinforced by a new multi-million dollar, two-year contract in the UA

Business confidence in Scotland was the joint highest of any UK nation or region in May, according to the Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking.

Scottish commercial property investment reached £360 million in the first quarter of 2024, according to Colliers’ latest Scottish snapshot. Whilst volumes have dropped from the final quarter of 2023 (£420m), the Q1 figure marks a 44% uplift on the same period last year.

A German businessman has won the right to use Donald Trump's name on condoms after a dispute over trademark rights at the former president's Scottish golf resorts. Frank Lindner sought to trademark the name “Trump” for various products, including beers, wines, and contraceptives. Tr

Scottish savers have opened more Junior ISAs (JISAs) than the rest of the UK in the last five years, according to Scottish Friendly’s latest Investor Index.