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Charlotte Wright, the chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), is to leave the organisation later this year. Ms Wright, who has led the development agency for the past five years, has announced she plans to step down in the summer for personal reasons.

TEFL Org, a provider of TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) accreditations based in the Scottish Highlands, has become employee-owned. Launched from a garden shed in the middle of the 2008 financial crash by founders Joe Hallwood and Jennifer MacKenzie, the TEFL Org is established as a mar

Property lettings firm Bowman Rebecchi Letting has acquired Castle Estates, the largest independent residential lettings agency in Inverclyde, in a six-figure deal. Castle Estates manages a stock of nearly 350 properties across Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, and Inverclyde. Its four highly ex

Gillian MacLellan, an employment law specialist and partner at CMS, discusses how companies can report their ethnicity pay gap. Unlike gender pay gap reporting, it is not currently mandatory for any business or organisation to report on ethnic-based disparities in pay levels. Despite a government co

Sterling Sinclair Removals (SSR) has successfully completed a takeover of rivals Letford Removals in a deal worth in excess of £100,000. The acquisition sees Letford added to the SSR portfolio and underlines the Stirling-based firm’s emergence as one of Scotland’s fastest-growing r

Almost one in five (17%) of non-advised customers are either too proud or embarrassed to talk to someone about how to manage their finances, according to new research published by pensions giant Royal London.

Provident Financial is planning to shut its venerable 141-year-old doorstep lending arm after increasing pressure from the regulator. The firm is also set to close its online lending business, Satsuma.

OnePatch, a multi-national start-up based in Glasgow that helps online sellers manage their orders and inventory across multiple sites, has partnered with eBay after being approached by the e-commerce giant. OnePatch was launched two years ago by web developer brothers Richard and Brendan Dunne

Cumbrae Oysters is doubling the size of its three-acre site at Hunterston in Ayrshire. Alan Forbes, owner and director of the firm, detailed the value of the “very cold, deep Clyde estuarine water” to oyster production for customers in the Far East as he announced the firm's new 15-year

Luxury Swiss watchmaker Breitling has opened its first Scottish store in Buchanan Street in Glasgow.

A new chair and three new non-executive board members have been appointed to the Insolvency Service Board, providing strategic leadership to the agency. Incoming chair, Mark Austen, will be joined by Gary Kildare, Samantha Durrant and Rob Hunt on the Insolvency Service Board.

CBI Scotland is calling on the UK and Scottish governments to provide greater clarity on the future direction of social distancing guidelines as businesses emerge from lockdown. Current social distancing guidelines mean only two-thirds (68%) of staff can physically work on premises &a

The forgery of official documents by monks was rife in medieval England according to a new study conducted by academics.

Alison Rose, the CEO of NatWest Group, has confirmed that the bank would move its registered headquarters to London if Scotland became independent. Ms Rose told The Herald yesterday that the Royal Bank of Scotland owner has “always been very clear” that its balance sheet would be “

EY is giving thousands of its UK staff a share of a £20 million bonus pot after the Big Four firm saw a better than expected revenue bounce-back from the coronavirus crisis. It has been reported that EY is to award an average £1,100 one-off payout to 17,500 its employees for their hard w