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Whisky leaders push case for duty cut with Treasury

David Frost
Scotch whisky representatives met Treasury minister Priti Patel yesterday to push their case for a cut in spirits duty in the Budget. The claim the 80% tax on spirits isRead More

Stirlingshire firm wins supermarket order

Graham’s to supply Morrisons’ Scottish stores

Grahams Morrison
Dairy firm Graham’s has picked up a significant new deal to supply its branded milk and butter to Morrisons stores in Scotland. Morrisons will stock six of Graham’s best-selling milkRead More

Merger will be based in Glasgow

Scottish Friendly to double in size after biggest ever acquisition

fiona mcbain
Scottish Friendly, Scotland’s largest financial mutual, is acquiring Marine & General Mutual (M&GM) – the oldest active registered company in the UK. The two mutual organisations expect the transaction toRead More

Diageo ready to listen to offers

Ryder Cup venue Gleneagles may be sold in £200 million deal

Gleneagles hotel has attracted a number of interested buyers who may be willing to pay up to £200 million for the Ryder Cup venue. Johnnie Walker to Guinness company DiageoRead More

Drinks firms want Budget action

Distillers across UK unite to call for duty cut

Small distillers have joined the call for Chancellor George Osborne to cut the rate of duty on alcohol which the industry claims will bring more revenue into the Treasury. TheRead More

Daily Business: Crackers and Clangers 2014

It has been an interesting year for a number of reasons, many of them unexpected. And, of course, there were winners and losers. Here, in the spirit of Christmas, isRead More

Tennent’s offers Hee-Haw for drink-drive law

Hee Haw
Tennent’s has responded to Scotland’s new drink-drive laws by raising a glass  – of non-alcoholic lager. Scotland’s biggest brewer has launched “Hee-Haw” (Scottish slang for “nothing) in pubs across theRead More

Daily Business: A 10-point manifesto for government

Daily Business
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s new First Minister, wants to change the country and is preparing to put tackling poverty at the top of her priorities. But can she achieve it withoutRead More

Will Nicola become Scotland’s ‘Irn-lady’?

She has been compared, almost inevitably to the Iron Lady, though Nicola Sturgeon’s brand of conviction politics, determination and tenacity is rooted in a different ideology and style of politics.Read More

Sunday View: 10 ideas for the new First Minister

The impossible dream: eradicating poverty Why cutting taxes is no easy solution 10 ideas to change the nation The scene is set, the curtain is up and the spotlight isRead More