News

Catherine Burnet, KPMG’s regional chair for Scotland, looks back at the challenges Scotland’s faced in the last year, and what lies ahead. In January 2020, none of us could have anticipated the overwhelming scale of economic and societal challenge that COVID-19 would create – it go

UK ministers have distributed contracts of up to £288 million to consultants at Big Four accountancy firms KPMG and EY to train thousands of civil servants over the next four years. Both firms will design and deliver courses in everything from project management and leadership to training on M

Scotland’s largest bid and tender specialists, AM Bid, is celebrating a prestigious double for managing director David Gray. The Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) UK has recognised David as one of the profession’s top leaders with the 2020 APMP UK Outstanding Leader

Allan Murray Architects (AMA) has entered into an employee ownership trust (EOT) with its staff as the beneficiaries. The firm is behind many of Scotland’s most impressive new buildings and masterplans and has arguably played a bigger role in Edinburgh’s recent architectural renaissance

Halifax has estimated that house prices in the UK will drop by up to 5% next year as a result of rising unemployment and the end of the UK Government’s stamp duty holiday.

North Berwick-based Jerba Campervans has secured its first Fair Tax Mark certification, and joins the growing movement of responsible businesses who are proud to 'say what they pay with pride'.

Two north-east families have invested £2 million to launch Scotland’s first dedicated gluten free oat plant in Aberdeenshire. The 1,000sq metre Oat Co. Scotland facility has been built at Enerfield Business Park, near Foveran, which lies within the 30-mile Energetica corridor between Abe

Glasgow-based fintech Guiide has secured another successful round of funding from a group of investors as the firm looks to increase its user base. The funding will help support Guiide develop more features and increase its already growing user base which continues to grow month on month. The invest

Businesses and projects in rural Scotland are set to miss out on part of a £1.283 billion funding programme next April following the UK’s exit from the EU. Twenty-one rural areas in Scotland will lose funding on economic, environmental and social measures from EU Structural Funds.

The Can Do Collective, a connected community of enterprise support organisations, is concluding the year celebrating a 25% increase in community size in Scotland.

Amiqus, the Leith-headquartered software company that enables organisations to engage new clients or staff remotely, has entered the public sector after securing contracts with the Scottish Government and the NHS Business Services Authority. Founded by Callum Murray in 2015, Amiqus is already used b

Tourism and hospitality businesses across Scotland are to benefit from a £104.3 million package of support from the Scottish Government in the New Year. The funding is part of the short term response to the Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce recommendations and follows lengthy discussions wit

A record number of Bitcoin ATMs were set up last month, with 1,120 new machines installed across the world.

Johnston Carmichael has added to its leadership team with the promotion of a new partner and seven new directors. New partner Barry Masson, based in Edinburgh, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003 and joined Johnston Carmichael in 2014. He has been integral to growing the firm’s audit p

Scottish businessman Crawford Gillies has been named as the next chair of Barclays Bank UK PLC, succeeding Sir Ian Cheshire. Barclays Group said Sir Ian is stepping down "with regret" because he is "unable to accommodate the increased time commitment and duration" required to see through its post-pa