The Scottish Government has announced that it will make a further £220 million of grants available for businesses including those with multiple branches after business objections that Scotland did not match the English support scheme. The new package of measures includes £120
Scottish Retail Consortium
The Scottish Government has implemented a 100% business rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure premises for the next 12 months, in a move which the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has labelled as a 'shot in the arm' for the retail sector.
Poor weather across Scotland has decreased retail demand in Scotland, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium and KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor for February 2020.
Scottish retailers have raised or donated over £18.1 million in 2019 for good causes in Scotland, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium's (SRC) fourth annual report into charitable giving. This figure is the highest reported overt eh four years recorded. This year's figure brings the cum
MSPs have rejected the proposed changes to the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill which suggested giving local authorities the power to set business rates.
Retail sales over the two months of November and December, outside of the Black Friday distortions, decreased by 0.9% according to the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) - KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) have both written to MSPs expressing their views on the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill.
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has submitted a plea to save the Uniform Business Rate to Holyrood's Local Government & Communities Committee. The SRC has said that the headway being made on rates reform is at risk if MSPs remove control over the setting of the business rate from the Financ
Retail sales have seen some festive growth side from Black Friday sales distortions, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG.
Three of the UK's leading business representative groups – FSB Scotland, Scottish Retail Consortium and UKHospitality – met with finance secretary Derek Mackay MSP in Stirling earlier today to discuss concerns over the scrapping of the uniform business rate. In a joint statement afterwar
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) - KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor for October 2019 has revealed total sales in Scotland increased by 1.0% compared with October 2018, when they had decreased by 0.2%.
Scottish retailers are likely to face a £12 million increase in their business rates bill, new analysis from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has revealed The Office of National Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI) figure revealed inflation in September stood at 1.7%. The September figure
The sale of non-essential goods dropped in Scotland last month, new research conducted by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG reveals.
Mr David Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium Agenda, urges MSPs to support business rate reform to mitigate the decline of the Scottish high street. On every Scottish high street, there is visible evidence of how retail is changing. Successful shops are embracing technology and well
Ahead of this week's Scottish Budget, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has called for business taxes to be reduced to boost the retail industry. Retail is Scotland’s largest private-sector employer, providing a quarter of a million jobs. However, it is an industry in transition and recent