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Inverness-based joinery business, IBI Joiners, has successfully purchased and refurbished a once-popular food-stop near the city, to create its new HQ thanks to a £255,000 funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland. Founded in 2004 and incorporated in October 2010 IBI Joiners predominantly op

David Findlay, associate for valuations at Knight Frank Glasgow, discusses the lifting of material uncertainty clauses from commercial property. Over the past couple of decades, the property sector has grown accustomed to dealing with uncertainty: the dotcom bubble popped at the turn of the millenni

Scotmid Co-op has posted strong half-year results as its turnover increased by £6.7 million to £197m.

The announcement that the UK Budget will be delayed until 2021 – with an expectation it will be in March – combined with the expected dissolution of the Scottish Parliament ahead of the elections in May next year, could leave MSPs with just a couple of weeks to agree on Scotland’s

Scotland's finance secretary Kate Forbes has said that the chancellor's Winter Economy Plan announced yesterday does not go far enough to protect jobs. While Ms Forbes welcomed some of the measures announced by the UK Government, she said that the details of the economic plan would not provide the s

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged Google to clamp down on adverts for online financial scams. 

The Scottish Government's Autumn Budget Revision (ABR) for 2020-21 has brought the total amount committed to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic to more than £6.5 billion. Yesterday, the government announced that it has allocated a further £2.5bn in response to COVID-19.

The Scottish Government has published a five-year infrastructure investment plan which it said will support tens of thousands of jobs and help stimulate a green economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Covering the five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26, the £24 billion Draft Inf

The UK government borrowed £35.9 billion in August as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the public finances, according to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). 

The Scottish Government has now committed more than £350 million to support communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Since March, this funding has enabled councils, charities and community groups to be flexible and respond swiftly to help people impacted economically or socially, including

A rabbit breeder has been fined €2,400 for injuring his rivals in a fight at Germany’s Federal Buck Rabbit Show.

Kirsty Ross, head of KPMG’s family business team in Scotland, discusses the resilience of family businesses and how firms can use their generational experience to ride out the COVID-19 storm. For Scotland’s family business community, 2020 will be a year to forget. A global pandemic, lock

Glasgow-based technology firm Exizent has secured £3.6 million in funding from several investors including FNZ to transform the way the legal and financial services industry deals with bereavement. Exizent is building the first-ever platform that connects data, services and the network of peop

Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust, a fund managed by Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has posted a net asset value (NAV) drop of 11.4%.  For the six months to July 31 2020, the company delivered weak absolute but positive relative returns. Despite the drop in NAV, the company outperformed its

A “game-changing” £300,000 has boosted the Langholm Moor Community Buyout’s attempt to secure southern Scotland’s biggest community land buyout – bringing its funding total to £3.1 million – as a 31 October deadline looms.