Business

The manager of Falkirk’s born-again Rosebank Distillery has marked his first month in the job with a realistic appraisal of the huge task facing owning company Ian MacLeod Distillers.

Covert recordings are topical at the moment. Boris Johnson was recorded with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds in their home under unpleasant circumstances. The debate that followed on Twitter was heated after Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson tweeted that the recording was harassment as it was politically motivated. The Secret Barrister stepped in to tell her it was not illegal and she was (his words, not mine) #lawyered. Covert recordings were also used against Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign in 2016 where he was recorded talking about how easy it was to pick up women with his fame.

The Aberdeen recruitment arm of a home healthcare specialist has been snapped up by a national group seeking to strengthen its Scottish operations.

A specialist shopfitting firm has been bought out of administration by a Scottish construction group.

Edinburgh-based Buccleuch Property has boosted its commercial portfolio with the purchase of a car showroom on the east side of the capital for a seven-figure sum.

Farne Salmon is one of the largest smoked salmon facilities in Europe and the largest private employer in the Scottish Borders, with more than 700 staff at its Duns site.

Scotland has all the ingredients in place for fintech success and has a massive opportunity to enhance financial inclusion - but needs to be better at delivering innovation on a commercial scale.

Callum Sinclair of Burness Paull explains why trust and transparency should be Scotland's unique selling point when it comes to fintech.

Fintech is fundamentally changing our economy by how can Scotland gain an edge in a competitive global marketplace?

The Scottish Government is facing calls for a “full review” into how Scotland has lost out on lucrative construction contracts for a massive wind farm project off the coast of Fife.

Ross McEwan, outgoing chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has been appointed the next boss of National Australia Bank, the companies have announced.

It is becoming more common to hear business managers and their advisors talk about “data ownership”, but most legal systems do not ­recognise a general right of ownership over data – and businesses which do not consider and appreciate the limits of their legal rights may soon find their plans to turn data into revenue being challenged.

CityFibre, the fibre optic ­telecoms firm behind ultra-fast broadband networks in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling, has today announced plans to launch its services in Inverness.

Bellshill-headquartered software testing company Edge Testing Solutions has relocated to a larger Birmingham office as it aims to grow its staff base in the region by 200 per cent.

It is 50 years this month since Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon. The release of rare footage in the much-acclaimed film Apollo 11 and the just released Armstrong, following on from last year’s movie First Man, reminds us just how extraordinary the achievement was.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Great British Entrepreneur Awards, which celebrate the “incredible stories” of the nation’s business bosses, have revealed the regional finalists for 2019.

Scotgold Resources, the company developing a gold mine near Tyndrum, is abandoning its plans for a project in Portugal to focus its efforts on Scotland.

A Stirling-based jeweller has become the 650th company to sign up to a partnership between the Scottish Government and business, aimed at boosting productivity, competitiveness, sustainable employment, and workforce engagement and development.