Farming: Championship time for Scottish ploughing
This coming weekend the focus of competitive ploughing in Scotland will turn to the Scottish Ploughing Championships to be held at Coldstream Mains and Lennel Estate, Coldstream.World conventional...
View ArticleFarming: Scotland rising to a meaty challenge
After four days of meeting their customers at the SIAL food fair in Paris, Scottish meat exporters yesterday used one word to describe the current market in Europe – “challenging”.Laurent Vernet, the...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Friday 26 October, 2012
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. ECONOMICSRecession ends – but that’s no help...
View ArticleFootsie loses another female chief executive
The FTSE 100 index is to lose another female chief executive after Cynthia Carroll announced she is to step down as boss of Anglo American.Her decision to quit the mining giant, which owns Tarmac and...
View ArticleBridge Energy hits oil for second time this week
Bridge Energy, the Aberdeen-based driller that joined Aim last month, has struck oil for the second time in a week.The Garantiana well in the Norwegian Sea – which was drilled by Total – has the...
View ArticleRMJM puts UK businesses into receivership
RMJM Group, the architects’ firm that worked on the design for the Scottish Parliament building, has put its three UK businesses into receivership, with all 120 staff transferring to a new European...
View ArticleMarkets: US bounce gives the Footsie a lift
America rode to the rescue yesterday with bullish growth figures that lifted the London market out of a three-day lull, but only by a whisker.The FTSE 100 Index made good early losses to close 1.7...
View ArticleBoE boss says UK may need to cap size of banks
Britain may need to cap the size of banks or fully separate their retail and investment operations to curb the risks “King Kong” lenders pose to the financial system, a senior Bank of England official...
View ArticleExperts urge caution despite rise in Edinburgh office letting deals
EDINBURGH’S office market has sprung back to life, with a string of major lettings leading to the strongest take-up of space since the 2009 property slump.New industry research shows that 53 deals were...
View ArticleRichard Branson denies Virgin Money may target RBS branches
VIRGIN Money boss Sir Richard Branson has given a strong signal that his Edinburgh-based group won’t emerge as a white knight bidder for the 316 Royal Bank of Scotland branches that are back on the...
View ArticleUS good news fails to excite stock markets
STOCK markets were little changed despite data showing the US economy grew at a faster pace than expected. Investor sentiment got a boost after the Commerce Department said US gross domestic product...
View ArticleGlasgow fertility clinic taken over
A DUTCH fertility clinic operator has bought a controlling stake in the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM), creating the UK’s biggest supplier of fertility services to both the NHS and the...
View ArticleApple shocks markets with lower margins and revenues forecasts
AT LEAST three brokerages have cut their price targets on Apple by up to $50 a share after the technology giant surprised analysts by forecasting lower margins for the current quarter.For the three...
View ArticleEurozone woes blamed for Amazon’s first three-month loss in five years
INTERNET retailing giant Amazon.com has posted its first quarterly loss in more than five years as it revealed it had been hit by the eurozone economic slowdown.The third-quarter net loss came in at...
View ArticleBusiness news in brief: John Lewis | Law Society of Scotland | Yellow Pages
John Lewis yesterday posted a third week of slowing sales growth, which the department store chain blamed on milder weather and tough year-on-year comparisons.Economist Howard Archer warned the figures...
View ArticleComment: All in the balance in US election countdown
WITH ten days to the US election, yesterday’s American growth figures could prove decisive in the knife-edge campaign. GDP grew at an annualised rate of 2 per cent in the third quarter of 2012, an...
View ArticleTesco’s US experiment may end within months
Tesco’s billion pound gamble to crack the United States may have only months to run as investors and management focus more on its struggling home business and slowing growth in emerging markets.Fresh...
View ArticleScots farm exposed to virus
Evidence has emerged this week that livestock on a number of Scottish farms have been exposed to the Schmallenberg virus which entered the south-east of England last summer. asasasIt had been thought...
View ArticleFear over promotional spending cuts
SOME Scottish farmers could see promotion of their produce halted by the government as the spending of more than £5 million of levy money is currently under threat.The money is part of the income of...
View ArticleBill Jamieson: Upswing needs debt levels to come down
ONE of the joys of Scottish public policy is that few people ever mention debt. It’s such a dull, depressing thing. And terrible though it is, there’s not much we can do about it. So why waste our time...
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