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Funding deal

Kilgour raises £600,000 to speed up growth at Renaissance

Robert Kilgour
Robert Kilgour: ‘invested heavily’ (pic: Terry Murden) Care home operator Renaissance Care has secured an additional £600,000 package to accelerate its long-term growth plans and finance further improvements to itsRead More

As further Frasers stores may close...

Ashley adds Jack Wills to list of troubled retailers in £12.75m deal

Jack Wills: fell into administration Mike Ashley has seen off a challenge from Edinburgh Woollen Mill owner Philip Day to buy the fashion retailer Jack Wills. Mr Ashley’s company SportsRead More

Borders firm expands

Rennie Welch expands with acquisition of Berwick practice

Patrick Evans
Borders-based accountancy firm Rennie Welch has expanded its Berwick on Tweed practice following a merger with local firm Optimus Accounting. Patrick Evans, pictured, who founded Optimus in 2011, will nowRead More

Plans for expansion

IT firm Cloud Cover adding jobs after securing funding deal

Cloud Cover
Cloud Cover has grown from three staff to 26 in seven years Scottish technology firm Cloud Cover IT has secured 324,000 from Scottish Enterprise, UK Steel and Business Loans ScotlandRead More

Buyer for Speyside hotel

Crerar hotels disposals continue with £2m Craiglynne deal

New owner: Craiglynne Hotel Craiglynne Hotel in Speyside has been acquired for an estimated £2 million by Bespoke Hotels, acting for investors, from Crerar Hotel Group. The sale was brokeredRead More

Consortium backs firm

Data analysis firm MarktoMarket to double after raising £1.75m

Market makers: Martin Clarke, Bertie Wilson, Douglas Lawson A new business providing data on private company valuations is set to double in size over the next six months after securingRead More

Bigger PPI payouts

Lloyds poised to secure Tesco Bank’s mortgages as profits slip

Tesco Bank
Tesco is ending its seven-year involvement in mortgages UPDATE 31st July: Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Lloyds Banking Group posted weaker-than-expected pretax profits on Wednesday, as it made a further £550Read More

Consolidation deal

Vivalda sees Brexit bonus in acquisition of Scots cladding firm MSP

Vivalda chairman Peter Johnson (left) with managing director Ben Jayes  Cladding manufacturer MSP Scotland has been acquired by Vivalda Group which sees the deal as a major safeguard against BrexitRead More

Further consolidation

FNZ acquires Australian tech platform rival GBST in £150m deal

Adrian Durham
Adrian Durham: ‘attractive acquisition’ Scottish platform technology provider FNZ is acquiring Australia-based platform GBST in a £150 million deal. FNZ, based in Edinburgh and London, has snapped up the BrisbaneRead More

Talks in progress

Clyde Munro Dental Group aiming to double by end of year

Jim Hall
Jim Hall: ‘we’ve come a long way’ Clyde Munro Dental Group is on target to double in size this year by adding a further 24 practices across Scotland. Since beingRead More