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Expansion planned

ScotBio targets overseas sites as Lockerbie steps up output

Production is under way at Lockerbie ScotBio, which is pioneering a new technique for producing natural food colourants, has announced plans for further expansion as it scales up production atRead More

Extended deal

Standard Life staff move in Phoenix partnership with Tata

Standard Life house
Standard Life house now home to Phoenix A number of former Standard Life employees will be transferred to a second employer in quick succession after a new deal between PhoenixRead More

Convenience store platform

Snappy Shopper raises funds to boost corner shop platform

Snappy team: Mike Callachan, Alan Reid, Mark Steven A technology firm helping convenience stores cash-in on the growth in online grocery sales has raised a seven-figure sum to fund its expansion throughout the UK. Snappy Shopper has raisedRead More

Funding support

Pure Lifi raises $18 million to bring light power to mobiles

Pure Lifi
Let there be light: the Pure Li-fi team University spin-out Pure Lifi has raised $18 million to bring the power of light to mobile devices. The Edinburgh-based firm wants toRead More

Enterprise round-up

Instant HR app; STATS Saudi deal; Workflo heads south

Stephanie Robinson
Stephanie Robinson: second venture Entrepreneur Stephanie Robinson has launched an app designed to help distressed employees needing access to HR advice. Ms Robinson says the app, HR Solver, connects employeesRead More

Video security deal

IndigoVision acquires Lisbon-based software firm Agorasys

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Max Thowless-Reeves became chairman in management changes IndigoVision, the Edinburgh-based video security specialist, has acquired Portuguese software company Agorasys in a £2.6m (€3m) deal. Agora is a spin-out from InstitutoRead More

Deal agreed

China’s Jingye secures future of British Steel with £1.2bn pledge

British Steel
British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant may be saved Thousands of workers at British Steel were told that a takeover deal has been agreed with China’s Jingye Group amid concern over howRead More

Plans for expansion

Founder buys out partner in Livingston James Group

Jamie Livingston
Buy-out: Jamie Livingston now has 100% control Jamie Livingston, founding director of recruitment agency Livingston James Group, has bought out business partner Andy Rogerson. The pair set up the companyRead More

Legal merger

Millar Campbell Solicitors teams up with Gilson Gray

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Joanna Millar and Laura Campbell Gilson Gray, the law firm, has acquired Glasgow-based licensing specialist Millar Campbell Solicitors, run by Joanna Millar and Laura Campbell.   The Millar Campbell client portfolioRead More

Garages acquisition

Halfords snaps up McConechy’s tyre fitting chain

Good fit: tyre chain joins UK group Halfords Group has acquired the Scotland-based tyres and MOT business McConechy’s, one of the largest independent garage chains in the UK. Founded inRead More