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£1m investment

Border breaks into home workers’ snack bar market

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New machinery will produce up to 500 chocolate biscuit bars a minute A sharp increase in snacking among home-working Britons has encouraged Scottish food firm Border Biscuits to make itsRead More

Backing from new fund

Cancer therapy spin-out Macomics raises £3.2m

Elizabeth Roper
Elizabeth Roper: leading the investment Edinburgh University medical spin-out Macomics, has raised £3.2 million in a seed financing round led by transatlantic VC Epidarex Capital, with the Scottish Investment BankRead More

Tuesday Updates

DB Live: FM’s briefing; UK GDP; Omega; Arrayjet; Lidl

Wireline industry
REFRESH PAGE MANUALLY FOR UPDATES 1.30pm: FM’s daily briefing Nicola Sturgeon said she would use any extra borrowing powers granted by Westminster for “additional stimulus” for the economy, but didRead More

Telecoms u-turn

Johnson ready to ban Huawei from 5G network

Huawei
Huawei will be banned from 5G Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network in a move that risks intensifying international tensions with China. TheRead More

Well-being

Mental health training for employers

Health, stress, family, mental health
New courses have been launched to tackle the 70 million working days lost every year in the UK to anxiety, stress and depression 

Investors 'misled'

Liquidators probe £25m car park investment scheme

Chad Griffin
Chad Griffin: ‘comprehensive investigation’ Liquidators have been appointed to two firms involved in an unregulated car park investment scheme which misled investors over promises of high returns. Drake Estates PropertyRead More

Audit

Hunter promoted to audit partner at Haines Watts

Craig Hunter
Haines Watts Scotland has promoted senior audit director Craig Hunter to audit partner to further enhance its audit services. With more than 20 years’ experience in both industry and publicRead More

Another Covid victim

Hendersons latest Edinburgh restaurant casualty

Hendersons has been in Edinburgh since the 1960s Vegetarian restaurant company Hendersons has become the latest Edinburgh establishment to announce that it will not be reopening after the end ofRead More

Green packaging

Diageo launches world’s first paper-based bottle

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Plastic-free bottle will be launched next year Drinks company Diageo has created what it claims is the first 100% plastic-free paper-based spirits bottle which is expected to be launched nextRead More

Virtual growth

Kelly becomes Eden Mill CEO as lockdown sales soar

Eden Mill virtual gin tasting
Virtual gin tasting sessions have been popular Eden Mill co-founder Tony Kelly has taken over as CEO of the St Andrews based distiller and brewer which has seen a sharpRead More