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Naeema Sajid New research has revealed that the vast majority of Scotland’s family business owners say that running the firm is putting a strain on family relationships.

David Lonsdale Keeping down business taxes, supporting consumers, and aiding retailers’ investment in skills should be at the heart of the Scottish Government’s Budget this autumn, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC).

Kate Forbes The new ‘Internet of Things’ network, called IoT Scotland, is being launched with the aim of providing a wireless sensor network for applications and services to collect data from devices and send that data without the need for 3G/4G or Wi-Fi, supporting businesses develop new and in

A new industry leadership group will aim to make Scotland the best country in the world for employee-owned (EO) businesses, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce today. The First Minister will confirm the establishment of ‘Scotland for EO’ when she travels to Arran for a meeting o

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has signed the Social Mobility Pledge, founded former Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening MP in partnership with UK fintech entrepreneur David Harrison of the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility to take an entrepreneurial approach to tackling low social mo

The level of vacant industrial property in North Lanarkshire has fallen further than any other region in Scotland over the last five years.

The UK Government has today published details of new tools it claims will improve rescue opportunities for financially-distressed companies.

Ottawa, Canada Scotland’s economic ties with Canada are will be strengthened through the launch of a new Scottish Government office in Ottawa next month, Holyrood has announced.

Global investment giant Goldman Sachs is poised to make a move on the UK retail finance market with the launch of a new savings bank.

Blair Nimmo Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG LLP have been appointed as joint provisional liquidators of Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre Limited (GSPC) after the firm went to the wall this week with the loss of nine jobs.

Chris Gardiner Chris Gardiner , a Solicitor in Thorntons' Private Client Department takes a look an very 21st century inheritance issue

John Glen Buccleuch, one of Scotland's biggest private landowners, has announced that it is to merge operations at its Bowhill and Eskdale & Liddesdale estates.

Kirsty Anderson Self-employed workers are heading towards a pension saving crisis as they cannot afford to save for their retirement, new research from Prudential has revealed.

Advisory firm Harvey Curtis, a financial adviser that took on thousands of Scotland-based clients of Mortgage Advice Centre (MAC) after it folded in 2006, has been acquired by consolidator AFH Financial Group.

Gross UK mortgage lending in July was £24.6 billion, some 7.6 per cent higher than a year earlier, according to latest data published today by banking industry body, UK Finance.