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Today sees Circular Glasgow, hosted by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, embark on a recruitment campaign designed to facilitate 50 Glasgow-based businesses to prepare for the future.

A former Rangers FC administrator is suing Scotland’s Chief Constable and most senior prosecutor for £9 million, claiming he was “unlawfully detained” as part of the investigation into the Glasgow club’s financial affairs.

Susanne Godfrey and Murray McCall Anderson Strathern has appointed Susanne Godfrey as finance director to work alongside managing partner Murray McCall and the firm's board as it enters its next phase of growth.

The Scotch Whisky Association’s appeal against the legality of Scotland’s minimum pricing regime has been unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who found its enabling legislation does not breach EU law and that it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The Scot

Ewan MacDonald-Russell Scottish retail sales decreased by 1.0 per cent on a like-for-like basis compared to October 2016, when they had increased by 0.6 per cent, latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium and KPMG have shown.

Jamie Hepburn Scotland’s employment rate grew to 75.2 per cent between July and September while unemployment also rose slightly by 2,000 between over the same period, marking an increase of 0.1 per cent.

Bob Granger Law firm Weightmans has announced its highest ever half year results as it welcomes a new group finance director.

Edinburgh-based Aberdeen Standard Investments plans to launch a new UK investment trust next month to be named, Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income PLC.

Gordon Wilson Perth-based financial adviser firm Carbon Financial Partners has expanded beyond Scotland after opening a new office in London.

Gary Johnstone (left) and AAB managing partner Graeme Allan Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Anderson Anderson Brown has announced the promotion of Gary Johnstone to director.

The closures in Scotland’s retail units is considerably slowing down - but the country still recorded the largest number of net closures across GB in H1 2017, according to PwC research compiled by the Local Data Company (LDC).

Chris Anderson Edinburgh-based research and Development (R&D) tax credit experts, Jumpstart, have appointed Chris Anderson as their new sales director.

L-R Wynne Evans, compare of the GBEA Awards, opera singer and the famous GoCompare actor, Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Appointedd and Aidan Hetherington, University of Edinburgh Business School. Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Edinburgh-based online business appointment booking software firm

Aberdeen-based global payroll and tax compliance specialist activpayroll is celebrating this week after its Singapore office scooped its first industry award.

Sean McGinness Accountancy firm Saffery Champness says a report published last week by the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) with the objective of identifying opportunities to simplify the UK VAT system shows that the Scottish tourism and events sector could benefit from some of the recommendation