Scots farming income falls £57m to £672m
Total income from Scottish farming is estimated to have fallen by £57 million to £672 million in 2018, after increasing in 2017. The chief statistician in…
Total income from Scottish farming is estimated to have fallen by £57 million to £672 million in 2018, after increasing in 2017. The chief statistician in…
Scotland’s international and rest of UK exports in 2017 (excluding oil and gas) rose 5.2% to £81.4 billion from the previous year. Exports to the…
Total and partners including China’s CNOOC have made a significant new gas discovery off the coast of Scotland at the North Sea Glengorm prospect about…
ScottishPower — a subsidiary of Basque energy giant Iberdrola — may compete against foreign infrastructure investment funds in the race to buy £2 billion Warrington-based electricity…
Aberdeen-based engineering and oil services giant Wood plc on Monday announced further progress with its $200m non-core asset disposal programme. In December, Wood agreed the…
Edinburgh-based funds platform Nucleus Financial Group Limited on Monday published an update on its assets under administration (AUA) in respect of the 12-month period to…
Cumbernauld-based Irn-Bru maker A.G. Barr said on Friday it expects its full-year revenue to rise about 5% to around £277 million. Barr, which also produces…
PwC said on Thursday it is embarking on a “significant” expansion of its Scottish operations with more than 100 staff expected to be recruited over…
Edinburgh-based water retailer Business Stream, a subsidiary of state-owned Scottish Water, said on Thursday it bought the customer base of its competitors Yorkshire Water Business…
A report launched on Thursday says Edinburgh’s 10 independent schools made an economic contribution of £125 million gross value added (GVA) in 2017-18, supporting 3,000 jobs. The…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments said it voted against the re-election of the chair of the board at the annual general meeting of pubs group…
Glasgow Housing Association’s investment programme for the past 15 years – the biggest of its kind in Europe – has boosted Scotland’s gross domestic product…
The average selling price of homes in east central Scotland — Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife — rose 4.9% to £241,827 in 2018, according to the…
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) said on Thursday afternoon it will seek authority from shareholders to buy back RBS shares owned by the UK Government…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford on Thursday announced the appointment of two new partners, effective May 1, 2019, and the retirement of three partners….
There was a 14.3% increase in overseas overnight visits to Scotland — from 3.1 million to 3.5 million — in the 12 months to the…
Tom Hunter’s West Coast Capital (WCC) has agreed a joint venture with Cala Homes to help create a £1 billion housing and schools development —…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Edinburgh-based Menzies Aviation’s takeover of part of Airline Services’ business after an in-depth investigation allayed competition…
Grangemouth refinery operator Ineos announced that Antwerp, Belgium, will be the location for its €3 billion project for an ethane gas cracker and world-scale PDH…
Edinburgh-based investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has made a $13 million minority equity investment in Singapore Life Pte. Ltd., a digitally-focused life insurance company…
Edinburgh Airport has recorded the busiest ever year for a Scottish airport with more than 14 million people passing through its doors in 2018. A…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Scotland will be able to access more than £100 million to help them expand and access investment through the…
Shares of East Kilbride-based Goals Soccer Centres plc fell about 15% on Monday after it said “outturn for 2018 is disappointing” and it now expects…
Perth-based energy giant SSE said on Friday its subsidiary Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN Transmission) has completed the new £1 billion Caithness-Moray electricity transmission…
Shares of Glasgow-based fashion firm Quiz fell as much as 30% on Friday after it said overall sales for the Christmas trading period were “below expectations”…
Edinburgh-based fund management giant Baillie Gifford is set to open an office in Shanghai in the coming months as it moves to beef up its…
Aberdeen Standard Investments said its infrastructure debt team has lent £40 million to the Wales and Borders rail franchise for essential upgrades to its rolling…
Aberdeen Standard Investments and CYBG’s Virgin Money announced on Wednesday they have sealed a new investments and pensions joint venture. The venture will build on Virgin…
The latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs said permanent staff appointments in Scotland increased at a “marked rate” at the end of 2018…
UPDATE 3 — Norwegian oil and gas company DNO on Wednesday looked set to win control of Aberdeen-based Faroe Petroleum a day after raising its…
Consultancy Wood Mackenzie has said the North Sea oil industry will stage a recovery in exploration drilling and healthy levels of mergers and acquisitions this…
Shares of Edinburgh-based rented housing developer Sigma Capital Group rose about 4% on Tuesday after it published a trading update for the financial year ended December 31,…
BP is considering selling its stake in the large Shearwater project in the North Sea as it focuses on new investments in the area and…
Edinburgh-based water retailer Business Stream, a subsidiary of state-owned Scottish Water, said on Monday it secured a new three-year water supply contract with Lloyds Banking…
The Scottish Government has announced an additional £50 million investment in the Tay cities region that will support manufacturing businesses and the delivery of the…
Figures released on Monday show more than 7.3 million customer journeys were recorded on Edinburgh Trams in 2018 — an increase of 10% on 2017….
The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, said Colette Bowe and Jayne-Anne Gadhia have been appointed as external members of its Financial Policy Committee…
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO said on Thursday it has increased its shareholding in Aberdeen-based Faroe Petroleum to 30% and that its hostile £610 million cash takeover…
Aberdeen-based Faroe Petroleum — which has rejected a hostile £610 million cash takeover bid from Norwegian oil and gas company DNO — on Wednesday published “an independent current valuation…
Selby, North Yorkshire-based power company Drax Group plc said on Wednesday it completed the acquisition of ScottishPower’s portfolio of pumped storage, hydro and gas-fired generation….