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Edinburgh-based St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies is celebrating a major milestone with the completion of one million sales.

Whitbread PLC, the owner of the Premier Inn hotel chain, has received confirmation from the City of Edinburgh Council that it has granted planning permission for the conversion of Capital House into a 195-bedroom Premier Inn.  Whitbread will invest £21 million in the conversion and rear e

Edinburgh-based AI and data consultancy Optima Partners has secured investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP) to accelerate its expansion across the UK and Europe. The transaction facilitates a successful exit for early investor BGF, which first backed Optima in 2022. The deal delivered a 4x ret

The Scottish Football Association has unveiled Barclays as the first-ever naming partner for the National Stadium, officially rebranding the venue as Barclays Hampden. This multi-million-pound, long-term partnership extends beyond the stadium’s renaming. Barclays will become title partner of t

The UK’s largest independent timber distribution and processing group, National Timber Group, has entered administration, resulting in the immediate closure of six Scottish sites and the loss of 169 jobs across the country.

Bank of Scotland has appointed Matthew Peters as area director for Edinburgh and East of Scotland. Mr Peters, who took up the role in October, is based at the bank’s office at The Mound and will lead a team of seven, including five relationship managers and two relationship directors. Together

More than €90,000 worth of snails destined for Michelin-star restaurants have been pilfered by French thieves. The slimy crooks nabbed 450kg of top-quality snails from L'Escargot des Grands Crus in Bouzy, a village near Reims in the historical region of Champagne.

In this edition of our Just A Minute Q&A series, we speak to Russell Wardrop, CEO and co-founder of Glasgow-based training and facilitation firm KWC Global. I was an architect and after dinner speaker turned academic who fell in love with teaching professionals how to communicate and influence.

Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), has taken the "unusual step" of publishing the evolution of the watchdog’s economic forecasts, confirming that Chancellor Rachel Reeves knew she had met her financial targets days before warning the public of a dire economic

Leaders of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) have warned that Scotland faces a pivotal moment for its economic future, urging a shift from political paralysis to long-term strategic planning. Speaking to over 650 business leaders and policymakers in Glasgow, SCC president Rodney Ayre and outgo

Car dealership Peoples Limited has reported a 75% decrease in profit before taxation, falling to £1.28m from £5.15m in the previous year.

Graham’s The Family Dairy has reported a dip in annual profits after making a strategic decision to absorb soaring operational costs rather than passing them fully onto consumers. For the financial year, pre-tax operating profit fell to £2.6 million, down from £4.5m in 2024. Howeve

Scotland’s newly announced target of growing its innovation-driven life sciences sector to £25 billion by 2035 is "proportionate and achievable with the right support", according to a formal NHS partner. The Scottish Government’s refreshed Life Sciences Strategy has set out steps t

Law firm Gillespie Macandrew has expanded its private client & tax team with the appointment of Kelley Thomson as tax senior. Based in the firm's Glasgow office, Ms Thomson joins from a Big Four firm, bringing extensive expertise in tax analysis and compliance to the role.

Legislation to correct an error in law for owners of unoccupied properties’ liability to pay non-domestic rates has been passed. The Non-Domestic Rates (Liability for Unoccupied Properties) (Scotland) Bill applies the necessary changes retrospectively for all levies charged since April 2023.