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Business confidence in Scotland has hit its highest level for almost seven years, a new survey from chartered accountancy body ICAEW has found.

Oban-based bioscience start-up Oceanium has closed its latest seed funding round worth £2 million led by Green Angel Syndicate and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The seaweed processing and food and material innovation business will use the funds to scale up its proprietary biorefinery and proc

LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Savills and Knight Frank to jointly market one of Aberdeen’s largest and most ambitious office projects. Wellheads Avenue is to benefit from a multi-million-pound refurbishment, with the intention of making it an exemplar for Aberdeen’s sustain

Businesses that deferred VAT payments last year have one month left to join online to pay in monthly instalments under the VAT Deferral New Payment Scheme, HMRC has said today. The online portal for the new payment scheme closes on 21 June 2021.

Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with the Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) to explore how the menopause transition affects women working in financial services and their progression to senior roles. The research is being carried out by the Fawcett Society, UK’s leading charity c

Increased workloads and household responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic are driving deep dissatisfaction among many women in the workforce, according to a new Deloitte Global report.

Aberdeen’s 16 North Esplanade West has been sold in the biggest investment deal in the city for 18 months.

Scottish business organisations have welcomed the appointment of new cabinet ministers to the Scottish Parliament.

An iconic car that featured in the Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners is to be sold at auction.

A decade of hotel expansion across Scotland is set to be reversed as many hotel businesses struggling with unsustainable debts, losses and staffing problems decide to close permanently, Derek Forsyth, head of restructuring with Azets has warned. Industry reports indicating the scale of the financial

DLA Piper has appointed Stuart Murdoch as partner in its Edinburgh Litigation & Regulatory practice, specialising in financial services disputes and regulatory matters. He joins from local Scottish firm Burness Paull, where he was also a partner, and before that in-house at RBS, where he was Leg

Louise Laing, senior associate at Brodies, details the intricacies of a pre-pack administration. Pre-pack is the term used to describe an arrangement whereby the sale of all or part of a company’s business and/or assets is negotiated and agreed before an insolvency practitioner (IP) is appoint

Growth capital investor BFG has completed a £5.2 million investment in Odro, a Scottish-headquartered technology business that provides video interviewing and engagement software to the recruitment industry. Since 2015, when it started with just two full-time employees, Odro has more than doub

Changingday, the Glasgow start-up creating virtual reality games for autistic people, has secured more than £670,000 of funding from Scottish Enterprise to develop and launch its products. The business has secured equity investment from Scottish Enterprise, alongside a number of private invest

Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has asked its staff to monitor their carbon footprint while working from home as part of the fund manager's new strategy to reduce operational emissions. The firm has said it will give its employees access to an app that can measure and reduce their carbon footprint