The companies drawing the most attention in any economy are rarely the ones doing the heaviest lifting. New analysis from BDO points to Scotland’s mid-market firms, the businesses too large to be startups and too modest to make headlines, as the real…
The latest figures from the Scottish Government describe an economy pulling in two directions at once. Output rose by 0.6 percent, a respectable enough number in a difficult climate, while unemployment climbed to its highest level in two years. Both things are…
In the fog-thick waters off Sitka, where cruise ships crowd the harbor for a few frantic months each year, Sara Hadad-Dembs and Cole Dembs have spent three seasons proving that a tourism business can be built on restraint rather than volume, and…
Scottish Chambers of Commerce took a senior business delegation to New York on Wednesday 8 April, timing the trip to coincide with the city’s annual Tartan Week and, this year, with the 250th anniversary of the United States. The group brought together…
Nationwide has taken on the role of sole banking partner to Female Founders Rise, one of the larger UK networks working with female entrepreneurs and non-binary founders. FFR counts more than 12,000 members and concentrates on the earliest part of the journey,…
HMRC moved to close down 4,761 businesses over unpaid tax in the year to 31 March 2025. The equivalent figure a year earlier was 3,625, making this a 31% jump. National accountancy group UHY Hacker Young links the increase to a harder…
The Financial Conduct Authority has settled the design of a consolidated tape for UK shares and given itself 18 months to deliver it. That commitment sits inside a wider package published by the regulator, which also opens a consultation on targeted market…
Fewer UK businesses tipped into formal insolvency processes between April and June. The catch is that fewer new ones were being set up either. R3, the trade body for insolvency, restructuring, advisory and turnaround professionals, counted 6,854 insolvency-related activities in the second…
MOLESON-SUR-GRUYERES, Switzerland: The Alpine farmers who make one of Switzerland’s most famous cheeses are scrambling to fill the gap in sales left by US import tariffs, which have sent demand tumbling in one of their most important export markets. Gruyère was hit…
SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has described new US tariffs as unfair and a strategic mistake, warning in a Sunday opinion column for The Washington Post that they would damage the two countries’ partnership and push up costs…
