English insurance broker Partners& has acquired sector rival the MacDonald Group in orderto enter the Scottish market.The agreement, which is due to complete in June, will see the MacDonald team becomingpart of Partners&, while retaining its brand.The MacDonald Group was founded in 1978 and today, the team of 50 is based acrossScotland in locations including […]
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L-R: Harris Grant & Robi Lambie Edinburgh based Cairngorm Coffee has appointed a new operations director and unveiled new packaging, as the business aims to reach a turnover of £1 million this year. Harris Grant, co-founder of the Edinburgh-based vegan fashion retailer Treen, has also joined as co-owner. The trained accountant spent almost five years
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AccelerateHER and Scottish Enterprise have teamed up to launch a new online training initiative designed to support the growing number of female business founders in Scotland. Using the Thinkific platform, AccelerateHER will now deliver its series of finance workshops as pre-recorded sessions so that female founders can learn at a time that suits them. The
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Award-winning Glasgow-based creative agency Bright Signals has grown from 31 to 45 staff following the acquisitions of digital agency Three Part Story and Edinburgh-based advertising agency PUNK Creative. The three agencies will now operate as a single integrated team under the Bright Signals brand. The turnover of the combined entity will now exceed £3 million.
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HFD Group picked up two major honours at the recent Scottish Property Award. The group picked up Property Company of the Year while their project at 177 Bothwell Street, picked up the Development of the Year (Commercial Buildings) Award. Comprising of six divisions to HFD supports the full property lifecycle: property, construction, offices, services, energy
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L-R: Tristan Ramus (Founder and Investment Principle Twenty20 Capital), Darren Roscoe (MD The Recruitment Co.), Jamie Reynolds (CEO, Cordant) and Ian Munro (Co-founder and Investment Principle Twenty20 Capital) Two UK based recruitment agencies have announced their merger, following a record-breaking year of substantially boosted profits. Glasgow based Cordant People and the Belfast based Premiere People,
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Demand for technology professionals has increased in Glasgow and Edinburgh during the past year, but Scotland faces fierce competition from other regions to secure the right technology skills. The latest Tech Talent Tracker from Accenture, which analyses LinkedIn’s Professional Network data, found that demand for technology professionals has increased in every region across the UK from last
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Scottish based Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has appointed Natalie James (pictured above) as Head of Retail for the UK, operating from its new Leeds office. Experienced in project management, quantity surveying and Construction Health & Safety, with transferrable leadership skills to drive successful teams, Mrs James is a collaborative and determined construction professional with
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Edinburgh-based soft drinks brand Bon Accord is cheering its latest supermarket deal which will see its products set to be stocked on the shelves of ten Morrisons stores in the east of Scotland. The family-owned firm, which says its drinks are 100 per cent naturally sweetened with real fruit juice and organic coconut nectar, and
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PODFather, the Edinburgh-based software company, has announced that it will be sponsoring this year’s Stirling 10k. Now officially known as the ‘PODFather Stirling 10k’, the team is limbering up to support the hundreds of expected runners who will be setting off on their 10k journey from The Peak, at Stirling Sports Village in Stirling on
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