The Herald newspaper has appointed Catherine Salmond (pictured above) as the first female editor in its 239-year history. Ms Salmond joins from Scotland on Sunday where she has been editor since August last year and has held senior roles including live news editor at Scotland on Sunday’s sister titles The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News.
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The founders of a Kinross-based travel business have doubled their campervan rental fleet after securing financial support through the British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme to help fulfil increased demand from international tourists. Stravaig Motorhome Rental was launched during lockdown by commercial airline pilots Sarah Fitzpatrick and William Findlay, and now has a fleet
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For the Image: (L) Karen Somerville and (R) Tom Young MBE of Angels’ Share Glass Award-winning Stirling firm Angels’ Share Glass has secured a £500,000 order to supply its whisky-based gifts to duty free outlets across Asia. It is the largest order to date for the family firm which marks its tenth anniversary next year.
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For the Image: (L) Samuel Milne, Operations Manager and (R) Eagle Courier Managing Director, Fiona Deas High-flying Samuel Milne has been put in charge of operations at one of the country’s largest courier firms at the age of only 21. Samuel has taken over as Operations Manager at Eagle Couriers after working his way up through the
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HR consulting and recruitment business, Hunter Adam is delighted to announce the appointment of Wendy Atkinson (pictured above) to head up its UK client relationships function. Wendy is well known among the Aberdeen business community, with a successful career in professional and financial services client relationship roles behind her. Sitting on the Hunter Adams leadership
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Scottish Enterprise revealed last week that 2021/22 continued to be a record year for its early-stage investment activities. The enterprise agency, which has been investing in early-stage businesses since 2003, alongside local, national, and international private sector investors, recorded investment of £50.71 million into 102 early-stage high growth investment opportunities – which in turn helped
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Edinburgh-based flexible energy specialist Flexitricity and Bristol-based renewable energy investment company Thrive Renewables have entered into an optimisation agreement for a 20MW battery energy storage system (BESS). The deal covers Thrive’s Feeder Road site in its home city and kickstarts an exciting collaboration between the two organisations. The lithium-ion BESS site will be monitored and
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Larbert has been confirmed as the third location for a new convenience store chain launched by former Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson (pictured above). The latest Eddy’s Food Station launch comes hot on the heels of the inaugural Alloa store which opened just a few months ago, and the Greenock branch last week. The newest
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A new modular demonstrator unit has been unveiled by Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), designed to show Scottish businesses that a timber kit-of-parts approach to retrofit could be the key to future sustainable offices. Following the development of a blueprint design last year, Ecosystems Technologies – a specialist in advanced mass timber manufacturing –
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Premium leisure and entertainment venue The Sands Centre in Carlisle, which is close to completing a multi-million pound redevelopment, has appointed Hickory, Scotland’s largest and fastest-growing independent catering, events and venue operators, as the exclusive catering partner. In its first contract win outside Scotland, Hickory has fought off strong competition following a tender process to
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