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Day: 25 January 2019

Ibrox chairman abides by ruling

King finally makes offer to buy out Rangers shareholders

Dave King
Dave King: proposal made through investment company (pic: SNS Group)   Rangers chairman Dave King has made a £19 million offer to buy the shares in the Ibrox club notRead More

Energy firm ceases trading

Sheen and Holyrood backed Our Power goes bust

Michael Sheen OUr Power
Michael Sheen visiting Our Power’s head office   Our Power, an Edinburgh-based household energy supplier backed by the Scottish Government and the social fairness activist and actor Michael Sheen, has ceasedRead More

Short-term let

Barclays takes stop-gap offices for 700 Glasgow staff

Buchanan Wharf
Buchanan Wharf will house 2,500 staff   Barclays is taking on a 700- desk office site in Glasgow as it prepares for wider expansion in the city. In July lastRead More

Continued expansion

Brewin Dolphin adds seven to Glasgow office

Brewin Dolphin recruits
Glasgow office manager Stephen Martin (far left) with new recruits   UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has added seven staff to its Glasgow office as it grows its operation inRead More

Delivering major projects across Scotland

MacArthur steps up as Story Scotland MD

John MacArthur
Civil engineering company Story Scotland has promoted its director John MacArthur to managing director following an exceptional start to 2019 after securing a five-year framework contract worth £135m with NetworkRead More

City round-up

Japanese swoop on London Pride + other updates

Fuller's
Fuller, Smith & Turner Japanese brewer Asahi has swooped to snap up a little bit of British heritage in acquiring Fuller’s brewing business for £250 million. Russ Mould at AJRead More

Strong trading across brands

Revenue up at Irn-Bru maker in rising soft drinks market

Irn-Bru
Soft drinks market is growing   Irn-Bru maker AG Barr, says revenue will be up by 5% this year as the soft drinks market grew by 3%. The company, whoseRead More

Celebrated journalist

Hugh McIlvanney, doyen of sports writers, dies aged 84

Alex Ferguson and Hugh McIlvanney
Hugh McIlvanney with Sir Alex Ferguson (pic: SNS Group)    Hugh McIlvanney, regarded as one of the finest sports writers, has died, aged 84. The Ayrshire-born former Sunday Times andRead More

Tie-up announced

Creative agencies Flintriver and Big Crayon unveil merger

Irvine Strang, Euan Brunton, Dave Bruce and John Lithgow
Two creative agencies have unveiled a merger to draw on the benefits of their complementary skills. Milnathort based digital creative Flintriver will combine with Big Crayon Digital, a Kinross basedRead More

Whisky launch

New dram celebrates Wemyss family’s whisky dream

Will Wemyss