Souter Investments sign off £25m to support growth in UK businesses
Souter Investments — the private office of Scottish tycoon Sir Brian Souter — has invested around £25m in four investments in the first six months of the year.The Edinburgh-based office,...
How a world-class concert hall is built by generosity
A posse of casually dressed visitors wearing hi-vis jackets and hard hats stand surveying a scene of broken concrete and piles of gravel behind the RBS’s historic branch in St...
M&A optimism survives market uncertainty
Tariff threat causes slowdown at larger end of market but smaller deals are continuing Hopes that a new administration in the White House would spark a wave of merger and...
The Big Interview: Clear-eyed vision of SNP’s leader in waiting
NB. This interview was undertaken several weeks before Kate Forbes’ decision to step back as Deputy First Minister and from the Scottish Parliament on 4 August 2025. She will not...
Two Scottish universities in top flight of UK spin-out table
Scotland’s ancient universities are still punching well above their weight in terms of turning research into spin-out companies, according to new research.By academic institution, spinouts from Cambridge University raised the...
Entrepreneurs: 25 women on succeeding in 2025
It is tougher today to be a female entrepreneur in Scotland than it was 20 years ago, says Anna White, whose company sells Scottish national dress, including kilts and tartan,...
Resilience and optimism define Scotland’s SMEs
Resilience and optimism Two of the traits that will define the future of Scotland’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) according to Aberdein Considine’s 2025 SME Business Survey, are resilience and...
Labour’s Scottish Secretary enters lion’s den at Highland show
There were no roaring wild beasts at the Royal Highland Society’s opening day at Ingliston Showground outside Edinburgh. Instead there was a wonderful displays of Clydesdale dray horses and brightly...
How we can fix Scotland’s broken entrepreneurial landscape
Scotland desperately needs to rekindle the national spirit which ignited an entrepreneurial culture in the latter years of the 20st century, declares a leading thinker on economic development.A new book...
Sir Tom Hunter slings Singapore challenge
When Sir Tom Hunter delivers a stern message to Scotland – it is up to our policymakers to sit up and listen very carefully.You can sense his rising ire about...