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One of Scotland’s premier whisky companies, The Edrington Group, faces the threat of a production shut down as workers vote over strike action.

Financial advice and fund management group One Four Nine has acquired McCrea Financial Services. McCrea Financial Services is an established full suite planning firm led by Douglas McCrea servicing individual and corporate clients throughout the UK primarily across the West of Scotland.

A new veterinary practice has opened its doors in Fife after securing a loan from Royal Bank of Scotland. Owned by husband-and-wife duo, Hannah and Bruce McKerrow, 3 Bridges Vets provides services and treatments for a wide range of pets and farm animals, from hamsters to horses.

TLT has advised Santander UK on its multi-million pound funding to global clean energy enterprise, TagEnergy. The funding supports the construction and operation of two landmark battery storage facilities: the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife, Scotland; and the 49MW/98MWH Jamesfield de

Leonard Curtis has opened an office in Edinburgh as it expands its business in Scotland. The group — which specialises in restructuring, insolvency, funding, and legal support — is also increasing its recruitment efforts in Scotland to build on success in its Glasgow office, wh

More than two-thirds of food and drink companies have had their sustainability plans negatively impacted by rising inflation, a new industry survey by Johnston Carmichael has found. The accountancy and business advisory firm surveyed more than 100 businesses across Scotland and the UK as part of its

Parents saving for their children’s future in cash could need to put away thousands of pounds extra for big-ticket items compared to investing through a typical stocks and shares Junior ISA (JISA), a new study by Scottish Friendly and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has f

The team behind the Port of Leith Distillery has announced plans to create more than 50 local jobs as the towering Leith landmark prepares to open this summer.

A man dubbed "the Easter bunny" has admitted stealing almost 200,000 Creme Eggs worth over £31,000.

The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of online activity booking site ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, a provi

Macdonald Henderson has advised Opulus in joining forces with Wylie & Bisset and on a £10 million growth capital facility to support further expansion plans of the enlarged group provided by SME Capital. Macdonald Henderson’s advisory team was led by David Beveridge and Ryan Macready

The Scottish Government has voted to provide an additional £223 million to local authorities to support pay awards to staff as part of the 2023-24 Scottish Budget. Deputy First Minister John Swinney said an improving financial position enabled him to address some pressing asks. The extra money

Circularity Scotland has announced £22 million of cashflow support measures to help Scotland’s brewers, distillers, importers and drinks manufacturers prepare for the introduction of Scotland’s deposit return scheme (DRS).

BrewDog has formed a joint venture with Budweiser in China to ramp up its operations in the country.

DM Hall, chartered surveyors, has been instructed to acquire a 90-130 acres site in Scotland’s Central Belt on behalf of an international drinks firm. Jennifer Campbell, head of rural agency at Baird Lumsden, DM Hall’s rural property arm, said: "We have been instructed once more by a ret