Macfarlane: UK budget moves to cost £1.5m a year

Macfarlane Group, the Glasgow-based protective packaging, design and distribution firm, said the increase in employers’ national insurance rates and National Minimum Wage announced in the…





Prosper wants Scots budget to ease UK tax pain

The Scottish Government’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison should use her limited room for manoeuvre in next week’s Scottish Budget to “help employers with cost pressures…




Scottish Water launches £9bn procurement

The largest procurement ever undertaken by Scottish Water has been launched “to transform the country’s public assets to keep taps flowing and protect the environment.”…















B Gifford, NATO lead €70m Tekever drone investment

By Mark McSherry Lisbon-based Tekever, which provides “drone-based Intelligence-as-a-Service,” announced that it raised €70 million in a funding round led by Edinburgh-based investment firm Baillie Gifford and…











Abrdn makes senior leadership changes

Edinburgh-based investment group Abrdn has announced big changes to its senior leadership team — and a new senior leadership structure. Xavier Meyer has been appointed…
















Glasgow, Aberdeen airports bought in £1.5bn deal

Germany-based AviAlliance has announced the acquisition of AGS Airports — owner of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton Airports — from Ferrovial and Macquarie for an enterprise value of…