Scottish Business Briefing - Friday 7 September, 2012 - Management

Sponsored by

Scottish Business Briefing - Friday 7 September, 2012

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic is competing for a share of passengers on Scottish routes

Published on 07/09/2012 08:51

WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today.

ECONOMICS

Scots business must look to global markets, says CBI Scotland chairman

SCOTTISH business needs to embrace globalisation, the chairman of CBI Scotland told the organisation’s annual dinner last night. Nosheena Mobarik said businesses north of the Border must boost their exports performance and find new foreign markets and partners to be a “real force for good” in an “interconnected world”. (Scotsman)

Read all today’s economics news from scotsman.com

ENERGY & UTILITIES

Oil firm Valiant’s ‘strategic review’ could see sale or merger

NORTH Sea-focused oil firm Valiant Petroleum put itself on the market yesterday, announcing a surprise strategic review that could also see it expand its portfolio. The firm launched a “review of options” aimed at value for shareholders and invited interested parties to contact it to discuss a merger or sale. (Scotsman)

Read all today’s energy and utilities news from scotsman.com

FOOD, DRINK & AGRICULTURE

Britvic-Barr merger ‘unlikely to be trumped by rival bidder’

ANALYSTS believe there is limited scope for a rival bidder to scupper the merger of soft drink groups AG Barr and Britvic, which are in talks over a possible £1.4 billion tie-up. (Scotsman)

Read all today’s food, drink and agriculture news from scotsman.com

INDUSTRY

Shares in Turriff owner dive after profit shock

The company behind the January 2011 takeover of north-east firm Turriff Group delivered a profit warning yesterday and also announced that its boss had left. (Press & Journal)

Read all today’s industry news from scotsman.com

TRANSPORT

Scotland continues to drive sales of new cars ahead of UK figures

New car registrations grew just 0.1 per cent to 59,433 last month, according to figure released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). (Scotsman)

Virgin sets out target for Scottish air routes

VIRGIN Atlantic said today it will seek to grab nearly 40 per cent of passengers on Scotland’s busiest air routes if it wins the right to compete with British Airways between Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Heathrow. (Scotsman)

Read all today’s transport news from scotsman.com

Business

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
Scottish Business Briefing - Friday 7 September, 2012

Top stories

Business