Sponsored by
11% increase in start-ups
SCOTLAND saw an 11 per cent increase in the number of new businesses started in 2007, new figures published today revealed.
Corporate services firm Oswalds said 21,256 new companies were formed in Scotland over the last year, almost 2500 more than in 2006.
"New enterprises were formed in Scotland at a rate equivalent to nearly 1800 a month in 2007," said Oswalds director Andrew Cockburn. "This suggests an underlying confidence in Scotland's economy and a refusal to be put off by the increasingly gloomy economic forecasts."
Glasgow headed the enterprise creation league with 5703 start-ups with Edinburgh in second place with 4236. However, Falkirk was the location with the highest percentage of new businesses, rising 23 per cent.
Email to a friend
Print this page- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
- Family mourn death of Glasgow ‘fight’ schoolboy
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers administration: Fans fear Duff & Phelps claims could scare off Green
- Rangers takeover: triple penalty punishment enough, says Johnston
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Scottish independence: ‘People here are best qualified to run Scotland’
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Saturday 26 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 8 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North east
