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The Port of Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest freight hub, has delivered an abundant ‘tattie’ season with 65,000 tonnes of seed potato exported around the globe from Grangemouth. The busy container terminal grew annual volumes with 150,000 containers moving through the port in 2022.

BDO’s Scottish corporate finance team has advised on 39 completed deals in 2022 with a total value of £1.9 billion. The deals were across a variety of sectors including technology, support services, real estate and healthcare, with private equity transactions a significant feature&n

Two Scottish companies have joined the British Business Bank's Future Fund, revealed by the published list of 53 additional companies in which the bank holds an equity stake, taking the total to 515 as at end of December 2022. Companies in which Future Fund is now a shareholder include Edinburgh-bas

In a statement of objections issued today, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) alleged that Dollar East (International Travel & Money Transfer) Ltd, Hafiz Bros Travel & Money Transfer Limited, and LCC Trans-Sending Limited (including its parent company Small World Financial Services Group

Law firms and accountants that fail to do enough to prevent fraud are the target of the UK government's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

Last year some of Scotland's most promising businesses received £705 million of venture capital (VC) investment, the largest amount on record, according to KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse Survey.

Easyjet has launched a 'beach-in-a-box' kit for Brits who are not in a situation where they can book a holiday.

The cost of doing business crisis remains the overriding concern for Scottish firms according to the latest Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor report, which showed a glimmer of hope with overall business sentiment returning to positive territory after slipping into the red last year. Produc

New data from financial mutual Scottish Friendly has revealed that the number of new stocks and shares ISA policies opened by adults in Scotland fell 17% year-on-year in the three months to December 2022. Sales in the run-up to Christmas were significantly lower than the previous year and the value

Business confidence in Scotland has fallen to its lowest recorded point for 14 years, according to a survey of chartered accountants published today.

Conditions in the commercial property market in Scotland deteriorated at the end of last year, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Commercial Property Monitor as the industry faces a challenging environment. Overall demand from both occupiers and investors fell in

Businessman, founding partner of Wolfcraig Distillers and former Whyte & Mackay chief Michael Lunn has passed away at the age of 80 following a short illness. Mr Lunn worked up until the day before he passed away at Wolfcraig Distillers, the company he founded with business partner John Moo

A gardening startup has become the latest winner in this season’s Dragon’s Den using the latest in compostable packaging innovation from Glasgow-based Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has leased the upper floors of Glasgow's iconic Teacher building to Sonder and is bringing to market a prime city centre bar and restaurant opportunity on the ground and lower ground floors.

After conducting a nine-month trial of a four-day working week, the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has made the new working schedule official, having seen no loss of productivity and a significant improvement in company culture and staff morale. Managers at the non-profit organisation ba