People: Giant wood statue gets VisitScotland guests guessing
VISITSCOTLAND’S reception at Holyrood last week was awash with speculation as to who the huge statue erected in the parliament for the occasion was based on.Tourism minister Fergus Ewing said any...
View ArticleMcCarthy & Stone mulling re-floatation or sale
McCARTHY & Stone, the UK’s largest builder of pensioner flats, has launched a strategic review to consider a possible flotation, sale or significant reduction of its £500 million debt mountain.The...
View ArticleAberdeen Asset Management ‘mulling special dividend’
ANALYSTS believe Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) is set to unwrap a share buy-back scheme or special dividend for 2013 when it unveils boosted full-year profits today.The announcement is likely to come...
View ArticlePolice launch probe at Gordon Brown’s banking think tank
THE alleged embezzlement of funds by an employee at a Gordon Brown-backed think tank set up to promote good banking behaviour is being investigated by City of London police.It is understood the...
View ArticleScottish Friendly rack up £500,000 sales
ONLINE sales at Scottish Friendly broke through the £500,000 barrier for the first time in October after parents stocked up on investments for their children.Jim Gall, e-commerce marketing manager at...
View ArticleRBS is braced for UK and US watchdogs to levy separate rate-fixing fines
CONCERNS are growing within Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) that the shadow of likely Libor-rigging fines hanging over it could be drawn out if transatlantic regulators decide to dole out financial...
View ArticleEdinburgh-based Ediston Properties buys office blocks in Aberdeen and Birmingham
EDISTON Properties has teamed up with Europa Capital to buy a pair of office and retail blocks in Aberdeen and Birmingham for a total of £22 million.Edinburgh-based Ediston bought Caledonian House on...
View ArticleFalkirk crane hire firm buys Scotland’s largest ‘cherry-picker’
A CRANE hire firm in Falkirk has bought what is believed to be the largest truck-mounted access platform, or “cherry-picker”, based in Scotland.Outreach has spent £1.25 million buying three access...
View ArticleComment: Optimism rises as China, EU and US tides turn
OUR greatest export remains pessimism. Five years on from the financial crisis, it still exudes from all corners. So my congratulations to Jim Wood-Smith, equity strategist at Investec, for his...
View ArticleMaurice Taylor using wealth of experience to guide Chardon through expansion
People, says Maurice Taylor, used to call him a “wimp” because he did not jump onto the debt-fuelled bandwagon that led up to the banking crisis. But he never cared when they did, writes Erikka...
View ArticleLarry Hagman dies - but Dallas will go on without its biggest villain
THE new series of Dallas will be rewritten following the death of the actor Larry Hagman, who played villainous oil tycoon JR Ewing in the TV soap.THE NEW series of Dallas will be rewritten following...
View ArticleFordyce Maxwell: ‘I’ve always believed that farming wives don’t get the...
Even those with little or no grasp of French – still a majority regardless of the enlightened European times we live in – have a fair idea of what Edith Piaf meant when she sang “Non, Je ne regrette...
View ArticleAAM profits beat expectations
Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) has a reported better-than-expected 15 per cent rise in full-year profits despite a “difficult and uncertain year”.The fund manager posted underlying pre-tax profits of...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Monday 26 November, 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. FOOD, DRINK & AGRICULTUREArran Brewery...
View ArticleBritain’s GDP in third quarter to be revised down by ONS
BRITAIN’S dramatic economic bounce-back between July and September is set to be trimmed tomorrow after a worse-than-expected performance in construction and manufacturing.• Figures from last month...
View ArticleBetfair to pull out of Greek market
Online bookmaker Betfair is to pull out of the Greek market after claiming that new gambling regulations in the troubled country are “inconsistent with European law”.Earlier this month, the Greek...
View ArticleBacon prices set to rise as Cranswick in talks with supermarkets
CONSUMERS face a further rise in the cost of their breakfast bacon and bangers after pork supplier Cranswick yesterday revealed it is in talks with its supermarket customers to pass on further...
View ArticleComment: Old pals act fails Tucker as Carney confirmed
IT LOOKS as if what did for Paul Tucker in his failed bid to become the new governor of the Bank of England was his bad war as regards Libor-rigging.That and what could have been seen as his...
View ArticleMike Ashley eyes House of Fraser
SPORTS Direct tycoon Mike Ashley is eyeing a possible stake in department store chain House of Fraser.The retail stalwart, which traces its roots back to a drapery shop in Glasgow in 1849, is...
View ArticleAsos eyes second hand clothing
ONLINE fashion retailer Asos is moving into the second-hand designer clothing market after buying a minority stake in Covetique, a website that brings sellers together with buyers to exchange...
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