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Scotland’s luxury and mid-market hotels enjoyed a rise in occupancy, room rates and profits in August year-on-year, with budget hotels also seeing growth in room rates and profits, despite a slowdown in the wider UK market, RSM Hotels Tracker: Focus on Asset Classes has revealed. The data, whi

Irvine-based engineering firm Booth Welsh has secured its long-term future and the jobs of its 300-plus workforce by transferring the company into an employee ownership trust (EOT). CEO Martin Welsh and the leadership team will all remain in their existing roles.

Consilium Chartered Accountants has successfully guided the shareholders of Eureka Solutions through the firm’s acquisition by San Francisco-based Pine Services Group. Eureka Solutions – an award-winning, family-owned provider of business software solutions – will become Pine Servi

A hoard of 70 Tudor coins, unearthed by a family digging a flowerbed during the 2020 lockdown, has sold at auction for just over £380,000. The collection, dubbed "The New Forest Hoard", was discovered at a home near Milford on Sea, Hampshire, in April 2020. The family initially found 63 gold c

Scottish construction firm The JR Group has announced a £6 million investment to create a new headquarters and warehouse complex on Helen Street, Govan, marking an emotional return to the area where the business was founded 30 years ago. Planning permission was submitted to Glasgow City Counci

A Glasgow high school pupil has presented her ideas on running the country to Scotland’s top entrepreneurs – and scooped a £35k school prize pot. Hyndland Secondary School S1 pupil Parvathy Othagatt entered The Hunter Foundation’s “If I Ruled Scotland” competition

Deloitte has announced the winners of the 2025 UK Technology Fast 50 awards, with three Scottish companies among the ranking. The awards recognise and rank the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK based on average revenue growth over a three-year period, and are sponsored by Citi, Oracl

Edinburgh-based fund manager Baillie Gifford is set to pay out as much as £12 million in "catastrophe bond" insurance following Hurricane Melissa.

Sir Dave Lewis, the executive widely credited with steering Tesco out of the worst crisis in its history, has been appointed chief executive of the struggling drinks giant Diageo. He will take the helm of the FTSE 100 company on 1 January. The appointment is considered a significant coup for th

KPMG is reducing the pay ranges for new and promoted staff in its UK offices near London, aligning salaries in commuter belt towns such as Reading and Watford with regional centres like Birmingham and Manchester. The shake-up means individuals joining or achieving promotion in these locations may be

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is set to launch a new US-style incentive programme, offering significant financial rewards to whistleblowers who report large-scale tax fraud.

Edinburgh law firm Murray Beith Murray has assets of nearly £3.2 million, the firm has revealed in its first-ever published accounts. The private client firm has more than doubled its turnover in the last decade, with revenue up by 10% last year alone, according to financial information publis

Shawbrook has completed a multi-million-pound facility to support Carmichael Homes in delivering The Moorings, a 40-unit residential scheme in Falkirk. Located in the commuter village of Reddingmuirhead, the new development will transform a former brownfield industrial site on the banks of the Union

Three of the UK’s most influential business organisations have made a rare joint intervention, urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to abolish the Energy Profits Levy (EPL). The British Chambers of Commerce, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, and Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce (AGCC) have

A judge has imposed a fine of more than £1,000 on the owner of a cat for trespassing into a neighbour's garden – with further fines threatened for future transgressions. Dominique Valdès, who lives in Béziers in southern France, said hearing the controversial ruling about h