Business

John Tutte is to join the board of housebuilder Bellway as non-executive chairman designate on 1st March 2022. Mr Tutte will succeed Paul Hampden Smith, who will retire from the board as non-executive chairman on 1st April 2022, following almost nine years' service as a non-executive director.

A new report from BDO has found that 70% of businesses are only planning nine months ahead, despite ambitions to launch new products and services and ongoing investments in research and development both at home and abroad.

Scotland’s predicted rapid return to pre-pandemic levels of economic growth has been put at risk as businesses report increased concerns over rising costs, recruitment challenges and concern over the return of COVID-19 restrictions, according to a new survey conducted by the Scottish Chambers

The first development at Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) in Dundee is complete and sees the delivery of a new design and build industrial space. Comprising of six light industrial units, the Fulhame Building is the Parc’s first lettable space for small start-up businesses and covers 1

Ovo Energy is to close its Peth office after the firm warned its UK staff that it planned to cut 1,700 jobs. Staff have been informed that 1,700 employees across the UK will lose their jobs through voluntary redundancy.

New research from Lloyds Bank Business has found that just 1 in 10 (12%) small businesses in the UK went online as a direct result of the pandemic.

Global private markets firm Partners Group has agreed on behalf of its clients to acquire Aberdeen-based infrastructure company North Star from Basalt Infrastructure Partners for an undisclosed sum.

One in three tourism and hospitality businesses have stated that they are likely to fail in 2022, according to a recent survey conducted by the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA).

Leaders from some of the country's most exciting businesses will travel to the USA this year for the first in-person trade missions from Scotland since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Around 25 SMEs from across the country are expected to join International Trade Partnership (ITP) missions to Miami and

Dentons has advised Edinburgh-based RoslinCT, a leader in advanced cell therapies contract development and manufacturing, on Global Healthcare Opportunities (GHO) Capital Partners' investment into the company. RoslinCT was established in 2006 with support from Scottish Enterprise. It was formed thro

BNI Scotland North, a business networking organisation in the north of Scotland, is celebrating an exceptional year which saw its members generate over £18m worth of business. The latest figures reveal BNI Scotland North members shared 15,776 business referrals that were worth £18,836,17

A raft of promotions, including four appointments to partnership, have been announced by DM Hall. Katie Craig, Greig Baxter, David Cree, and Paul Reilly, have all joined the now 25 strong Scotland-wide partnership as of 1 January 2022.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has made a significant investment into a new office space in Glasgow as its teams look to the future of post-pandemic ways of working. The firm's Glasgow team will be moving to St Vincent Plaza, a Grade A office space in the heart of the city’s IFSD Central

FinTech Scotland has confirmed a 27% increase in the number of fintech enterprises in Scotland as the cluster management organisation reaches its fourth anniversary. The FinTech SME community has now reached 190 Compared to 147 this time last year and just 26 firms when Fintech Scotland started four

Game4Padel, the Edinburgh-based padel business backed by tennis star Andy Murray, has been valued at £18 million in its latest investment round, during which the company raised £3m from retail and institutional investors. The company’s fourth successful fundraising round in less th