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Private conversations held between executives and their employees in connection to collusion on price fixing of Rangers FC merchandise have been published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In September the regulator handed out fines of £1.49 million, £459,000 and &poun

Two Glasgow-based businessmen have launched a recruitment agency dedicated entirely to the football industry. Founded by football agent and recruitment specialist, Stewart Macgregor, and professional youth coach, Piero Carrino, Football Careers Ltd, is targeting revenues of more than £1 m

Ian Macleod Distillers (IMD) is giving the public the chance to view its proposals for a whisky maturation warehouse scheme at Bandeath Industrial Estate in Throsk, located outside Fallin.

Glasgow-based construction firm Gap Group has announced that it will boost the pay of 83% of its employees with a £1 million bonus. With the aim of helping employees with the cost of living crisis, the £1m bonus is in addition to existing annual performance and Christmas bonuses and

Global demand for fine and rare single malt Scotch whisky has continued to drive up both the volume and value of auction sales as investors flock to the alternative asset, according to a new report by investment bank Noble & Co. Noble & Co worked with data science business Brainnwave to coll

Edinburgh-based healthtech company Hearing Diagnostics has completed a £1.1 million funding round and is now eyeing commercialisation in the domestic and US markets. Led by angel investment syndicate Archangels, the funding will unlock the spatial hearing screening technology’s market po

StorTera, an Edinburgh based developer of intelligent energy storage solutions, has secured £5 million of funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) to develop a long-lasting megawatt scale battery that can operate for up to eight hours. As the number of renewables projects continue

Eden Mill Distillery has begun offering single malt enthusiasts an opportunity to invest in one of 300 unique casks and join 'The 1655 Club', as the distillery resumes single malt production with the opening of the new site on the banks of the Eden Estuary in St Andrews. The carefully selected casks

American federal prosecutors have named a Scottish “ghost” firm in connection to a $500 million (£414m) cryptocurrency scam, alleging it was used to help launder the ill-gotten gains. Two Estonians were arrested by United States authorities and accused with internationally defraudi

Protective packaging specialist Macfarlane Group has given a trading update reporting an 11% in revenue, despite weaker volumes, for the YTD to the end of October. The board expects the group’s results for 2022 to be ahead of last year and in line with its full year expectations.

An ancient gold coin wrongly classified as a fake by specialists has proven the existence of a third century Roman emperor who was written out of history as a fictional character.

SSE has reached agreement to sell a 25% minority stake in its electricity transmission network business, SSEN Transmission, to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan board in a transaction valued at £1.465 billion. The energy giant says the deal will help unlock significant growth in both the tr

Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS), circular and sustainable fashion enabler, has partnered with Edinburgh fund manager Circularity Capital, with an investment of £10m. Circularity Capital is a specialist growth equity fund manager which invests in European SMEs operating within the circular ec

The latest EY Future Consumer Index has found that nearly half of UK consumers (43%) expect to spend less over the festive season compared to 22% for the same period last year. The 11th edition of the survey of over 1,000 UK consumers found that falling consumer confidence due to the cost-of-living

Scottish energy storage specialist Gravitricity has secured £194,00 from the UK government to find a demonstration site in India suitable for its gravity energy storage technology. Gravitricity has developed an innovative energy storage system which works by raising heavy weights – total