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Michelin has announced it is relaunching a scheme aimed at creating hundreds of jobs in Dundee and Angus. Michelin Development will provide funding and advice to firms with the potential to expand, providing high-quality, long-term employment.

Aberdeen-based James Milne Chartered Accountants (JMCA) is leading the way for gender balance in the accountancy sector, according to reports. More than two-thirds of the firm's 38 employees in Aberdeen, Inverurie and Banchory are women, The Press and Journal reports.

The general election has provided some clarity for Scottish businesses amid continued growth, albeit weak, according to one of the first major post-election surveys of Scotland’s business community. The latest Scottish Business Monitor, produced in a partnership between the Fraser of Allander

Law firm Murray Beith Murray has announced a number of internal promotions across its asset protection and property groups. Fraser Scott, who has been with Murray Beith Murray since 2015, has been promoted from senior solicitor to associate. He works in the firm’s asset protection group and sp

Pinsent Masons has advised Aberdeen-based John Wood Group PLC on the sale of its industrial services business to KAEFER, a technical services provider, for $104 million (£80m) and a further payment of up to around $14m (10.8m) pending achievement of agreed financial goals. The divestment is an

Men who stole prized racing pigeons worth more than €700,000 have been caged for three years.

Glasgow-based Russell & Russell, the long-established family-owned accountancy and business advisory firm, has restructured its senior management team from outside the family as it prepares for a new phase of growth. Stuart Clark has been appointed managing director of the Glasgow-based firm, wh

Law firm Aberdein Considine has appointed Natalie Mortimer as head of compliance and Thomas Lilie as head of legal for the Lender Services Practice Group. Ms Mortimer has moved to Aberdein Considine from Virgin Money where she was head of risk, compliance and quality. She brings over 15 years’

A mass exodus of Cash ISA investors submitting transfer out requests from their Cash ISAs is causing a backlog with the big bank lenders, according to new data from Sourced Capital.

Shirley McIntosh, tax partner at RSM, discusses the new challenges facing the legal sector amid changes in property tax. The start of the new tax year on 6 April 2020 will see the latest in a long line of changes in the taxation of property introduced since April 2013, from new and abolished rules,

Just seven weeks after launching its first equity crowdfunding campaign, drinks-on-demand tech platform Drinkly has reached its funding target of £250,000. The company, based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, will use the funding to accelerate its growth to become the UK's number one on-demand

Many high street banks are still unable to officer online currency services due to the hack of Travelex.

Accountant, business and financial advisor Armstrong Watson has acquired Eura Audit Northallerton. The merger took effect on 3rd February and comes after Eura Audit partner, Peter Tarren, made the decision to retire and carefully sought a practice that would provide a good cultural fit for his

MSPs have rejected the proposed changes to the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill which suggested giving local authorities the power to set business rates.

Aberdeen gin producer Raven Spirits has begun exporting its products to select Asian markets after receiving funding from Scottish Enterprise. Raven Spirits will now ship its products to HongKong, Taiwan and Macau, allowing it to target the £730 million export market for British gin.