Business

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

An entrepreneur based in West Lothian has launched her first app, giving HR advice to stressed workers, after injecting a six-figure sum.

Engineering group Doosan Babcock has inked the largest industrial property deal of the year in Scotland, after signing a new 15-year lease for its Renfrew site.

A managed services provider based in Livingston has opened its first facility outside Scotland.

An Orkney scale modelling company has enjoyed a sales boost after being showcased as part of the UK-wide Small Business Saturday campaign.

An Ayrshire manufacturing group has undergone a ­management buyout (MBO) after securing £4.5 million in funding, as it aspires to ­introduce new technologies and drive growth.

A ten year tourism and event strategy for the Kingdom has been launched by Fife Tourism Partnership in conjunction with Fife Council and the Local Tourist Associations.

British Steel has been saved in a rescue deal by Chinese firm Jingye saving up to 4,000 jobs, the Insolvency Service has confirmed.

Three Fife apprentices have reason to be proud this week after they were named as finalists in this year’s Scottish Apprenticeship Awards.