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Day: 29 November 2016

Investment follows contract

Angus firm Stirfresh wins £300k Lidl deal

Stirfresh, a family business in Angus, has secured a six-figure deal with supermarket chain Lidl that will enable it to invest £1 million in pland and machinery. ..

Scottish foothold in $23bn market

Nooq ‘takes big step’ with US university partnership

Scottish software company nooQ has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Purdue University in the US...

As I See It

As self-belief rises, is nooq the next Skyscanner?

Terry smiling
If we learned one thing from the sale of Skyscanner last week, it was that disposing of our biggest and brightest prospects need not be regarded as a bad thing...

Bruce Stevenson sponsorship

Insurance broker in hospitality partnership

One of Scotland’s largest independent insurance brokers is catering for the hospitality sector as a sponsor of HIT (Scotland). HIT (Scotland) was formed in 1994 by leaders from the hospitality industryRead More

Minister publishes report

Yousaf says latest work delivers better rail service

ScotRail train Waverley
Disgruntled rail passengers across the central belt were today promised more reliability and more seats following a £19m investment in the fleet...

Welcome news for Princes St

£8m store promises ‘Bond St’ experience

Jeweller and diamond specialist Chisholm Hunter will open its £8 million store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street next month – complete with Champagne bar. It will be the largest luxury jewellery shop inRead More

Swinney attends celebration

CodeClan marks first year with student pledge

Skills academy CodeClan marked its first anniversary with a pledge from chief executive Harvey Wheaton that it...

Trade counter aquisition

BGF exits as Stevenswood in Polyframe deal

Ron Hepburn
Kitchens and conservatories manufacturer Stevenswood has acquired Polyframe Trade Centres as part of its ambition to build a UK-wide trade counter business...

Former Tesco CEO Philip Clarke will not face charges over the accounting scandal at the supermarket chain, his lawyer says

Tesco disclosed in September 2014 that it had identified a £250m overstatement of first half profit, mainly due to the way it accounted for deals with commercial suppliers. The scaleRead More

New method of processing

Miner to extract more gold from Scottish rock

Richard Gray
Scotland's gold miner may have found a way to extract more of the precious metal from the rock in its Cononish mine near Tyndrum.