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The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) group has distributed £42 million to clubs, the highest figure in the league’s history, its newly-published annual accounts confirm. The accounts reveal total group distributions are up £4.1m (11%) to £42m from last year’

Scottish businesses have become markedly more pessimistic about the economic outlook, according to research from the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute. At the same time, the Institute warns that ongoing problems with the reliability of labour market statistics are obscur

A portfolio of seven office buildings in Aberdeen’s Westhill has been sold for £10.8 million, in the latest in a series of commercial property deals in the city.

Dains Accountants has promoted two of its Ayrshire-based staff to director and associate director. Based in Ayrshire and supporting owner-managed and growing SMEs across Scotland, Lorna Logan, who was promoted to director, is ACCA-qualified and works within the firm's accounts & advisory team an

Family-run bottler Gordon & MacPhail is releasing the world’s oldest single malt Scotch whisky, an 85-year-old Glenlivet valued at over £15 million. Distilled in 1940 and matured in a single sherry cask, Cask 336, the spirit was bottled in February 2025.

Business support organisation Elevator UK will develop and manage the services offered by the Manufacturing Innovation Centre Moray. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has appointed a specialist operating company to run a new multi-million-pound innovation centre to support manufacturing in Mora

With one month to go until the ICAS Annual Conference in London, former Braun GP owner and F1 industry leader Nick Fry has called for optimism amid the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that it will transform but not replace accountancy jobs. Fry joins an exceptional line-up of speaker

Port Glasgow-based McLaren Packaging Group, a specialist supplier to the Scotch Whisky industry, is returning as a programme sponsor of the third edition of The Distillers One of One charity auction, set to take place this Friday, 10 October 2025 at Hopetoun House near Edinburgh, in collaboration wi

Tayside Public Transport Company Limited, which trades as Xplore Dundee, has announced a significant rise in turnover and profits in its latest Companies House filing. The company, which is part of Mcgill’s Group, saw its turnover climb to £21.4m for the financial period ending 29 Decemb

Scotland's equity investment market has demonstrated strong resilience during the first half of 2025, with university spinouts proving a key driver of activity, according to new research from the British Business Bank. The bank’s annual Nations and Regions Tracker revealed that in the first si

Aberdeen International Airport is targeting new routes and increased capacity after its pre-tax profits more than doubled to £17.2 million in 2024, up from £6.8m in the previous year. The strong performance was driven by an 8.7% rise in turnover to £56.4m and a 1.7% growth in passe

Law firm Burges Salmon has advised AlphaReal, the specialist real assets investment manager, on a bespoke £40 million lending solution to Highland Broadband, enabling the substantial expansion of its fibre network across rural Scotland. The Scottish National Investment Bank is also supporting

Burness Paull has appointed Tom Usher as a senior advisor. Mr Usher was most recently a partner with Macfarlanes in London.

HM Revenue & Customs' (HMRC) sophisticated "big data" system, known as Connect, has been credited with generating an additional £4.6 billion in tax revenue during the 2024-25 financial year. This figure, revealed in a freedom of information request made by Pinsent Masons, represents a 35%

Every primary three pupil in Nairnshire has been kitted out in club colours thanks to a former Nairn resident who now heads up a real estate firm. Marking 50 years since its 1976 Highland League triumph, Nairn County Football Club recently provided pupils from Auldearn, Ardersier, Cawdor, Croy, Mill