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Neil Bradbrook, managing director of Falkirk-based Ahead Business Consulting, highlights the new opportunities made available to Scottish businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scotland has just 6% of the UK’s business base, spread out across a third of the land area.

AccelerateHER and Scottish Enterprise are partnering to increase support for female-led companies to maximise their global growth potential. This partnership supports Scottish Enterprise’s continuing commitment to gender equality and adds to its existing initiatives to help disruptive, sustain

The number of Scottish Fintech SMEs has increased by over 50% during the eighteen months of the pandemic with the FinTech Scotland entrepreneurial community growing from 119 in March 2020 to 181 today. The growth in innovative enterprises reflects the increase in demand for financial technologies as

Temporary insolvency restrictions protections are being lifted and new targeted measures to support small business and commercial tenants introduced. The Insolvency Service has announced that temporary measures brought in to support businesses from insolvency during the pandemic will be phased out f

Scottish labour market conditions continued to strengthen during July, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs. Permanent placements rose for the seventh month in a row and at a quicker pace, while the rate of increase in temp billings remained close to a survey record, despite

Loganair, the UK’s largest regional airline, has continued to build on its network and UK-wide connectivity as it adds three further routes to its Summer 2022 programme. The enhanced schedule will see services between Inverness and Dublin, Teesside and Southampton, and Shetland and Dundee take

Glasgow Chamber of Commerce is set to host the largest-ever international trade mission during COP26. The Climate Chamber Mission will bring companies from 10 countries across the globe together to increase international collaborations, export and business growth opportunities.

A porcelain bowl thought to have been worth £500 has sold at auction for £320,000 after it turned out to be a rare Chinese artefact. The 900-year-old bowl was owned by a Lincolnshire couple and was among items being sold after their deaths. The rare bowl sat on a chest of drawers at the

Michelle Elliot and Tom MacLennan of FRP Advisory have been appointed as administrators of CS Wind (UK) Limited, a wind tower solutions business based in Argyll.

The founder of Edinburgh-based financial services company Nucleus Financial Group has departed the company following its takeover by James Hay Partnership. In a statement announcing his departure, Nucleus founder and CEO David Ferguson said it "feels like the right time for me to move on and conside

Scottish taxpayers will be worse off under UK government plans to increase National Insurance than those in the rest of the UK, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has said. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this week that rates of National Insurance will increase by 1.25 per cent from A

The Scottish Land Court and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland are to be unified to form an expanded Land Court. It will create a “one-stop shop”, which will be a "more efficient arrangement than currently offered".

Estate and letting agency Pacitti Jones has acquired 167-year-old law firm Alexander, Jubb & Taylor, based in Dennistoun, Glasgow. Solicitor Bill Nugent has been serving the local community of Dennistoun from his practice in Annfield Place for decades, specialising in providing legal services fo

Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Infinity Partnership has been shortlisted for three accolades in a prestigious UK awards event for accountancy professionals. The practice, a five-time winner at the British Accountancy Awards, has been named a finalist in three categories at the 2021 Accounting Excel

A junior council worker who rejected and approved real planning applications, adding sarcastic comments in the process, in the belief they were testing a dummy website has learned that the decisions are now legally binding. One applicant, a charity boss at an animal sanctuary, was told by Swale