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Cairney & Company, a Scottish female-run fundraising consultancy advising global clients has seen a 60% growth in turnover year on year in 2021/2022, after accessing specialist support from Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business advisory service.

Business confidence in Scotland rose four points during February to 14%, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking.

Sandy Merson, Group Head of Operations and Maintenance at Petrofac (L) and Alan McQuade, Group Managing Director, ICR (R) Bridge of Don-based ICR Integrity (ICR), global provider of specialist repair, inspection and integrity solutions, has announced the re-award of their Master Service Agreement (M

Law firm Eversheds is taking almost 6,000sq ft of space on the ground floor of BAM Properties’ and Federated Hermes’s Capital Square development in Edinburgh. Eversheds becomes the sixth occupier to commit to the building following law firms Anderson Strathern, Pinsent Mason and Brodies,

BrewDog has made a fake ALDI beer in reaction to the supermarket producing a fake BrewDog IPA. James Watt, the CEO and co-founder of BrewDog, revealed in a LinkedIn post this morning that the after the release of BrewDog's fake ALDI beer, ALDI got in touch asking to list the fake ALDI beer in their

An agreement has been reached by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein, to acquire abrdn's discretionary fund management business in the UK and Jersey for £140 million. The transaction involves approximately £6.1 b

Dundee-based insurtech company Broker Insights has appointed Dr Artur Niemczewski as a non-executive director. During his 25-year executive career in insurance, Dr Niemczewski has held several C-suite positions, including with AXA, Willis/WTW, Marsh, and Xchanging/DXC.

Invoice finance provider Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has made available more funding for Scotland’s small and medium sized enterprises in 2022 as part of its growth strategy. Debts factored – the total funded turnover of BFS clients in Scotland – grew by 12% to £382 millio

A two tier commercial market has emerged in Aberdeen, where "rents and terms are holding up for ‘best in class’ buildings, but functionally or locationally obsolete buildings are struggling" according to Savills. The comments reflect activity in the last year with Savills recording

The Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA), the acknowledged overarching trade body and voice for Scotland’s tourism and hospitality industry has today published an open letter with a call for Scotland’s new First Minister to halt the Scottish Government’s proposed ban on alcohol advertis

Balfour and Manson has appointed Scott Foster as its new chief operating officer. Mr Foster, who spent 35 years at Royal Bank of Scotland, mainly as a relationship manager to professional service firms, joins on 3 April 2023. He has worked as a relationship banker with Balfour and Manson for 18 year

Fresh from winning its first contract to deliver internal audit services to a housing association in England, Wylie & Bisset has landed a second contract. The Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm recently won a contract with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.

Google owner Alphabet has sacked its robot cleaners as part of a cost-cutting exercise. More than 100 robots developed by the tech giant's Everyday Robotics department were helping to clean cafeterias and conference rooms in its San Francisco headquarters.

UK-wide tanning salon chain Indigo Sun has reported record results with a turnover of over £26 million and nearly £5.6m pre-tax profit in its latest financial year ending September 2022. The family-owned Scottish business has seen both turnover and profits double on the previous financia

The Smart Things Accelerator Centre (STAC), Scottish internet of things (IoT) accelerator, has inked a partnership with Glasgow-based wealth management specialist Murphy Wealth to address an increasing funding gap for Scottish early stage tech startups, and ensure experienced talent is in place to b