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Local businesses are being invited to sign-up for a Johnstone Town Hall event on Tuesday 29 November at at 9am, designed to help them bid for Renfrewshire Council contracts. The council is hosting the event to make sure as much as possible of the £200m it spends on external contracts each

Dunfermline-based furniture and fit-out specialist Deanestor has delivered a £1.6 million contract for one of the highest-performing secondary schools in Scotland. Built by McLaughlin & Harvey and designed by Ryder Architecture for East Dunbartonshire Council, the new £40.9m Boc

Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its Tech Advisory Board (TAB) by adding leading Scots gaming figure Colin Macdonald to its ranks. Mr Macdonald, a former producer on the multi-billion dollar generating Grand Theft Auto franchise and a previous Channel 4 Games Commissioner, has joined the busines

Clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch has leased a space in Edinburgh as it plans to open its first Scotland store.  Savills, on behalf of Patrizia, has let the 65 George Street location in Edinburgh to AFH Stores UK Ltd.

A tenant who tried to sell the house he was renting for £400,000 without his landlord's knowledge has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Property factoring specialist Newton Property Management has appointed Karen Trickett as CEO. Ms Trickett will work alongside Newton’s existing leadership team and founding chairman Stephen O’Neill as the property firm sets its sights on continuing growth in the sector.    

Demand for prime office space continues to outstrip supply in Glasgow and Edinburgh as the market holds steady despite challenges, according to the latest analysis from Avison Young. The Big Nine quarterly review shows the take-up in the major regional office occupier markets in the UK, including Ed

Over £18 billion worth of Russian assets have been frozen as a result of UK sanctions, according to the first official figures. The figures have been published by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in its first annual review since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which led to

MPs have been urged to fix the "dysfunctional" Companies House as it is inadvertently facilitating business fraud in its current state. The warning call came from the anti-fraud leader at the trade body UK Finance during a session of the business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee, in

First Group has revealed a statutory operating profit of £62.1 milllion, up from £52.2m, in its H1 results for the six months ending 24 September 2022 Earlier this year the group sold off its East Scotland division to McGill's Buses.

Barclays will make payments of around £1 million to over 1,000 affected customers, after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that the bank breached the Payment Protection Insurance Market Investigation Order 2011.

The World of Walkers shortbread - along with the Speyside company's marketing acumen knows no bounds it seems. A reader visiting Morrocco this week was surprised to see Walkers Shortbread camels on sale in Marrakesh airport duty free. The North African inspired nibbles are part of the World of Walke

At the UK level, a fall in permanent staff hires was also noted, with the rate of decline similar to that seen in Scotland. Hiring activity across Scotland fell into decline during October, with both permanent staff appointments and temporary billings contracting, according to the latest Royal Bank

On the new build front, the average price has risen by 6% over the past year in Edinburgh and 12% in Glasgow. Scotland has seen some of the strongest apartment rental price rises in the past five years, with Glasgow and Edinburgh witnessing 51% and 27% respectively, according to research from proper

Balfour+Manson has announced it will pay staff a £1,000 pre-Christmas bonus payment to support them with the rising cost of living. All 86 employees in the business, which also has 22 partners, will receive the discretionary payment in their salary on 28 November.