Jason Morris has been named as PwC’s new regional leader for Scotland. He will now combine this role with his existing position as head of the firm’s UK deals renewable practice, as PwC focuses on helping businesses solve challenges linked to climate change. Morris will assume leadership for more than 1,000 people across their Glasgow, Edinburgh and […]
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Macfarlane Group sold Macfarlane labels to the Reflex Group in a deal worth £6.4 Million. The sale includes Macfarlane subsidiaries Macfarlane Group Ireland (label and packaging) and Macfarlane Group Sweden. Macfarlane Labels design and print self-adhesive and resealable labels, principally for consumer goods companies. The Reflex Group is also focused on the manufacture of labels
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ALDI has unveiled plans to invest £24 million and create hundreds of new jobs in Scotland next year as part of its continued expansion throughout the country. Following the opening of its 100th Scottish store back in November, Aldi looks ahead to the New Year where they will open new stores in Aberdeen and Broxburn creating
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A Scottish Borders-based cable company has announced the acquisition of a rival firm in Dubai. Emtelle said the deal for Afripipes was the first in a series of announcements which aim to “expand its global footprint”. It said the expansion would put it in a better position to “deliver excellence worldwide”. Once completed Emtelle said
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Glasgow-based Chartered Accountant Wylie & Bisset’s Internal Audit Department (pictured) has secured an outcome of ‘full compliance’ following a recent External Quality Assessment from The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. With the Institute indicating that approximately just a quarter of all External Quality Assessments result in full compliance, this achievement is all the more impressive given
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Edinburgh based tech startup Pawprint closes its latest crowdfund tonight as it wraps up an incredible year of growth. In 2021 the carbon reducing employee engagement platform has seen the business attract over 18000 users, sign up 31 businesses, achieve B corps status and more than double its headcount from 12 to 30 full time
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A pioneering clothes-making course designed for young parents has been adopted by a Dundee school to help boost engagement and aspiration amongst pupils. Kindred Clothing, run by Dundee charity Front Lounge, is delivered by a range of businesses within its Clothes Making Learning Partnership (CMLP). Kindred Clothing takes learners through the key stages of the garment
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A couple with 20,000 free-range hens have spoken about the efforts they are making to follow restrictions introduced to help fight bird flu. Jim and Anne Smillie run Corrie Mains Farm at Mauchline in East Ayrshire – which borders Dumfries and Galloway where outbreaks have been recorded. Their birds have had to be shut away
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The man brought in to improve the fortunes of the nationalised Ferguson Marine shipyard is to leave next year, it has been announced. Tim Hair, who spent two years as turnaround director, will be replaced by a new chief executive in February. He was appointed after the shipyard went back into administration in 2019. The
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A young Glasgow-based tech entrepreneur has launched a new online marketplace app through which desserts can be sold. 19-year-old, London School of Economics student and Hutchesons’ Grammar Alumni, Omar Arfan (pictured above left) has been developing the Dlyt app for the past two years. He is using it to help the increased number of home
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