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Wall Street ready to mark ‘longest bull run in history’

S&P hits record on NYSE
Wall Street traders were preparing to mark a new milestone on Wednesday ..

Post-Brexit ambition unveiled

Fox to help firms turn UK into export ‘superpower’

Liam Fox
UK international Trade Secretary Liam Fox will today unveil a plan to boost British exports ...

Leader targets seats

Scotland holds key to ousting Tories, says Corbyn

Leonard and Corbyn at Alexander Dennis
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will today claim that Scotland holds the key to delivering a change ..

Levy will add to costs

Scrap ‘ill-considered’ out of town tax, say retailers

David Lonsdale
Scotland’s retailers want the government to scrap plans allowing councils to levy a new business rates ..

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Persimmon

Persimmon shrugs off slowdown to report 13% profits leap

Housebuilder Persimmon shrugged off a slowdown in the housing market to report a..

Brent Oil field

Wood positive on back of oil and gas recovery

Energy services company Wood is raising its cost-saving targets on the back of a recovery in its core oil and bas market.

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“Never let anyone tell you something can’t be done,” says Chris Thewlis, founder and CEO of GTS Group. Chris put this philosophy to the test when launching GTS, the UK's only social enterprise operating in private security, in 2012. GTS protects the past as a provider to Historic Environment Scotland’s estate including Edinburgh Castle, the present as a partner to 10 local authorities in the UK and the future as the security supplier of choice for the University of Glasgow’s regeneration project. Its training division runs one of the most successful employability programmes in Scotland with a 97 per cent retention rate and a 93 per cent outcome rate for sustained employment. Having doubled its turnover in the last year, GTS operates within the top 5 per cent of UK social enterprises for turnover, income from trade and impact delivery and has won contracts to deliver services for the next seven years. "By securing the past and present we are able to protect the future through reinvestment of profits into education with employment,” said Chris, who’s involved in social enterprise hospitality company Beer for Good CIC, and Ginerosity, the world's first social enterprise Gin. He is a board member of Social Enterprise Scotland.

Livingston begin manager search after Miller’s exit

Premiership new boys Livingston are searching for another manager following Kenny Miller’s departure after just

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EnerMech recruits specialist for European role

An oil and gas asset specialist with more than 20 years’ experience working for major …

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Edinburgh Festival 2018

Vlad again

Vlad’s view: Glasgow’s laughing boys at top of their game

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As I See It

Brian Monteith

An Amazon tax will not save the high street

Is an Amazon Tax the solution to the high street’s problems? Brian Monteith has his doubts…

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Collagen Solutions

Collagen makes further moves into China

Collagen Solutions, the stem cell company with operations in Scotland, has signed distribution

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Economy & Markets

China

China-US talks help lift global markets

Global stock markets took some comfort on Friday from the prospect of trade talks between the US and China later this month.

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Energy

Water leak, Wave and Hive

Save money on water bills with unique leak sensor

Wave, with its Scottish office in Edinburgh, and Hive have announced a partnership that will

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Enterprise

Ben Thomson

Thomson’s Inverleith backs hemp based food firm

Inverleith, the Edinburgh-based private equity firm chaired by Ben Thomson, has taken a majority stake in a food and drink brand making products from hemp seed.

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Food & Drink

Natural colour wall at Macallan distillery, Speyside

Whisky leader warns of tax threat to investment

A Scotch whisky leader has warned that investment in increasingly popular whisky trails could dry up if

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Management

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Supporting charity is good for business

Supporting charities is proven to be beneficial to companies. Here’s why

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Media

Kylie Jenner

Watchdog targets celebrities over social media earnings

Celebrities who promote products on social media are being investigated by the competition watchdog ..

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Money

Elderly care

Care ISA ‘would only benefit wealthy’, say critics

A new ‘Care Isa’ that allows people to ringfence some of their savings from inheritance tax will only benefit..

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Property

Drum Apartments at Canting Basin, Pacific Quay

Plans submitted for 7.5 acre Pacific Quay project

Drum Property Group has submitted plans for its £30 million development on Glasgow’s riverside.

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Results & Updates

Peter Lawson

Burness Paull staff gain as profits rise for ninth year

Law firm Burness Paull has reported a ninth year of consecutive growth after another strong year of deal instructions.

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Technology

Gillian Docherty at Datafest17 - 2

Late payments AI firm Previse raises $7m

Tech firm Previse which has set up a data science base in Scotland has raised $7m in a Series A funding round.

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Transport

Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh handles biggest Scottish passenger tally

Edinburgh handled more than 1.5 million airborne passengers in July, a new monthly record for a Scottish airport. 

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