Business

Edinburgh fintech Sustainably is one of 15 tech firms which has secured funding to develop innovative open banking-based services designed to improve financial wellbeing among consumers.

Retail sales rebounded in Scotland last month as “exceptional” discounts reeled in shoppers, a report today suggests.

The Edinburgh-based hospitality business behind a string of capital venues including Bon Vivant and the Devil’s Advocate has hailed a hike in turnover after growing its portfolio.

A Dundee tech firm helping convenience stores and corner shops to cash in on the growth in online grocery sales is to create more than 20 jobs after raising a seven-figure sum to fund its expansion throughout the UK.

The Co-op will launch a raft of outlets this month as part of a multi-million-pound investment programme set to create up to 60 jobs across Scotland.

An application to change the use of a Selkirk property from residential to business use has split the town’s community council.

The long-heralded opening of the £6.7m home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland being built in Galashiels has been put back a year.

A boss has been appointed for the £6.7m Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor centre now set to open in Galashiels town centre the year after next.

A Glasgow ship engineering firm has set sail for new head offices after staff numbers soared from six to more than 50 in just two years.

A 60-bedroom nursing home is to be built in West Lothian following the appointment of a contractor.

Former Scotsman journalist Kenneth Roy was terminally ill in hospital when he started working on his final project. In the three weeks before he died in November last year, he had written 49,000 words. This extract from the resulting book is from Friday 26 October 2018

Hampden & Co, the Edinburgh-based private bank, has hired a financial services veteran as its chief commercial officer.

A WiFi-focused Edinburgh-based firm helping businesses to boost customer engagement has today launched with seven-figure seed funding, enabling it to grow globally and double headcount.

Wireless communications company PureLifi has raised $18 million (£14m) to support a mass roll-out of its technology to the consumer market.

Like many who grew up in the 1980s, school was the building where I spent each weekday, moved along corridors by ­prefects and herded by teachers in to ­classrooms where I would sit at a desk, organised in neat rows all facing the front. Break times were spent in the one vast playground, huddled away in a ­corner sheltering from the good old Scottish weather, and sports day, when it wasn’t cancelled, took place on the red blaes pitch. Then when school holidays arrived, the building was locked down.

Swift Dental Group is aiming to strengthen its Scottish offering and broaden its reach after acquiring a Dunfermline business.

A family-run Aberdeenshire ice cream firm is to create more jobs after “scooping” a new supply deal with Asda to stock two of its lines in the retailer’s Scottish stores.

A host of winners were celebrating success at The Falkirk Herald Business Excellence Awards 2019