Premier Inn owner Whitbread has reported steady first-half results as it prepares to focus on the growth of its hotels business following the multi-billion-pound sale of the Costa Coffee chain to Coca-Cola.
Pre-seed tech accelerator Seed Haus is backing two new start-ups as the Edinburgh incubator celebrates the one-year anniversary of its first tranche of investments.
UK-wide national law firm TLT has further flexed its muscles north of the Border with the acquisition of a Glasgow-based commercial property specialist.
A Dundee-based business support initiative that has given a foot up to more than 80 fledgling companies across Fife and Tayside has pushed the button on its latest programme.
CYBG has formally completed its £1.7 billion takeover of Virgin Money creating a new UK challenger bank and marking the beginning of the end of the historic Clydesdale brand.
Scottish Ford giant Peoples has managed to navigate a bumpy road to generate an annual turnover figure that almost matches the previous year’s record haul.
Retail tycoon Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has pledged to invest in Glasgow’s iconic Frasers department store after agreeing a £95 million deal to buy the city centre property.
WH Smith has proved once again to be a tale of two businesses after launching an overhaul of its under-pressure high street arm while revealing rising sales across its outlets based in airports and train stations.
Edinburgh-based fantasy sports operator Premier Punt Group has hailed a makeover and change of name as a significant milestone for the business as it prepares to scale-up and tap into the US market.
Britain’s Big Six energy suppliers are about to become the Big Five after a deal to merge Perth-based SSE and Npower’s retail operations was given the all-clear by competition officials.
Investment in Scottish commercial property totalled £318.4 million in the third quarter and is on track to reach £2 billion by the end of the year, new figures have revealed.
Vertu, the car dealership group that runs the Macklin Motors brand north of the Border, has warned that supply issues are likely to continue into early 2019 in the wake of last month’s slump in UK new car sales.
The countdown is well underway for the seventh international Startup Summit, which is expected to attract 1,000 delegates to Edinburgh later this month.
