Main Menu

Day: 15 June 2018

Scottish Accountancy Awards

Chiene + Tait secures top accountancy honours

Carol Flockhart
Chartered Accountancy firm Chiene + Tait is celebrating after a brace of wins...

IFS report raises new cuts fears

Sturgeon facing ‘austerity max’ claim over independence

Murdo Fraser
Nicola Sturgeon is being challenged to admit that the cost of separation from the UK would mean almost two decades of austerity for Scotland.

SPL fixtures

Baptism of fire for new Ibrox chief Gerrard

Steven Gerrard
Steven Gerrard will mark his debut as Rangers manager with a challenging opening fixture

New pioneering facility

£56m backs ‘world first’ drugs R&D centre for Scotland

Paul Wheelhouse
Scotland's role at the centre of UK medicine research and manufacture is being backed by a £56 million investment in an innovation centre.

Claims and insolvencies rise

Company failures soar as Carillion collapse takes toll

Carillion sign
Companies are falling victim to non-payment of debt at the highest rate for almost a decade, according to new figures.

Ofgem takes action

EDF to pay £350,000 after missing meter target

EDF Energy is to pay out £350,000 after the supplier missed its target to install smart meters for its customers last year.

CEO pay package questioned

Tesco posts 10th quarter of expansion

Tesco
Britain's biggest supermarket has posted another quarter of growth

Mobile banking 'not the answer'

Scotland ‘worst hit’ as banks shut two branches a day

rbs branch closures
Scotland is the worst affected part of the UK for bank branch closures...

Support funding

Start-ups share £1m in latest EDGE pitching event

Kate Cameron with Jim McColl andE Evelyn Macdonald
Fledgling businesses shared £1 million in funding from partner organisations following the latest Scottish EDGE pitching competition.

Slowdown in first quarter

Technology hogs VC funding amid drop in deal flow

Stuart Lunn
Scottish technology companies were responsible for the majority of all venture capital