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ASCO appoints David Paver as new group financial officer
ASCO, the global integrated materials and logistics management company, has appointed Gary Paver as its new group chief financial officer.
Published 31 March 2020
Business Improvement Districts to support coronavirus recovery with £1 million Scottish Government fund
Many Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Scotland will be at the forefront of the local response to the COVID-19 outbreak through a £1 million resilience fund made available by the Aileen Campbell, cabinet secretary for communities and local government.
Published 31 March 2020
Shepherd calls for rating appeals to be lodged due to COVID-19 crisis
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to 4 March 2020 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic.
Published 31 March 2020
Gilson Gray continues Dundee expansion with local merger
Gilson Gray has accelerated its recent expansion into Dundee by merging with local property firm, Wallace and Co Property Management.
Published 31 March 2020
Hammerson sees rents drop amid coronavirus crisis
Hammerson, the retail property company which owns Aberdeen's Union Square and Glasgow's Silverburn, has seen a major slump in rents, as two-thirds of the rent it expected to collect last week was not sent due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published 31 March 2020
BrightHouse collapses amid coronavirus lockdown
The UK's biggest rent-to-own company, BrightHouse, has collapsed, with Grant Thornton appointed as administrators.
Published 31 March 2020
Black Isle Brewery sees sales plummet by 95% amid COVID-19 crisis
Black Isle Brewery has warned that the coronavirus crisis could be "disastrous" for the brewing industry in Scotland, after the company reported a 95% decrease in sales.
Published 31 March 2020
Supermarkets to benefit from £3 billion tax break
Supermarkets in the UK are to benefit from a £3 billion tax break whilst sales skyrocket due to the coronavirus lockdown, according to Tax Watch UK.
Published 31 March 2020
Loganair prepares to ask for state bailout
Loganair is preparing to ask for a government bailout to sustain its business in the next few days.
Published 31 March 2020
Record low interest rates could see savers rate of return fall by over 62%
The Bank of England’s (BoE) decision to lower interest rates to an all-time low of 0.1% could see UK savers' rate of return fall by as much as 62.5%, according to the latest research by peer-to-peer lending platform Sourced Capital.
Published 31 March 2020
UK economy stagnated in fourth quarter of 2019
The UK economy stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Published 31 March 2020
Scottish Government announces £25m of emergency funding for third sector
The Scottish Government has pledged £25m worth of funding to third sector organisations across Scotland through the newly created Third Sector Resilience Fund (TSRF).
Published 31 March 2020
And finally... locked down
A thief raiding a parked car was foiled after the vehicle's owner used a remote key to trap him until police arrived.
Published 31 March 2020
UK ditches wrongful trading insolvency laws
The UK's wrongful trading laws will be suspended to allow businesses to "weather the storm" of the coronavirus pandemic, Alok Sharma, the UK business secretary, has announced.
Published 30 March 2020
Leonard Curtis appointed administrators of The Scalloway Hotel
Stuart Robb and Michelle Elliot of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery have been appointed as joint administrators of The Sea Door Limited, the operators of The Scalloway Hotel in Shetland.
Published 30 March 2020
