Over three quarters (78%) of UK small business owners say that sustainability is at the forefront of their business strategy, but their efforts are being hampered by the cost associated with implementing “green” business infrastructure. The SME Insights Report, which surveyed over 1000 UK small business owners, found that over half (57%) of small businesses
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Core-Asset Consulting, Scotland’s leading financial services recruiter has been identified by JP Morgan Private Bank as one of the top 200 women-powered businesses in the UK. Founded by respected entrepreneur Betsy Williamson in 2005, the company receives the accolade shortly after being named a leading trailblazer at the end of 2022. Currently turning over £26.5m
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An exciting Scots health tech firm has invested £4m in a state-of-the-art new HQ to rival the best that Silicon Valley can offer. Emblation staff will start a phased move next month into the stunning new offices in Stirling, where its growing staff of more than 60 UK-based employees will have access to a gym,
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Scotland’s favourite ice cream brand, Mackie’s of Scotland has hit record sales after pursuing an ambitious growth strategy south of the border. The business has more than doubled its ice cream sales in 10 years, with sales of its ice cream alone reaching more than £20 million in its last financial year. In reaching this
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Yorkshire-based off-grid solar power company, Xerogrid has partnered with one of the world’s fastest-growing energy storage system providers, a Forbes China top 50 innovative business, with help from Energy Management and Industrial IoT company, Hark. Leeds-based Xerogrid has been named UK technical partner for China-based Pylontech’s UK market, ‘Powercube’ battery systems to provide UK customers
Belfast based Commodities and manufacturing group, W&R Barnett was Northern Ireland’s top performing business last year according to analysis from Ulster Business magazine. The magazine analysed the country’s top 100 firms looking primarily at their turnover. Barnett had sales of £1.57 billion and pre-tax profits of £69.1 million for the year ending July 2022. Barnett
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A growing appetite for tanning salons has seen Britain’s biggest chain open its fifth outlet in Yorkshire. Doncaster has become the latest location to receive a £350,000 hi-tech salon from the expanding UK-wide firm, Indigo Sun, taking its Yorkshire-based workforce to 48. The new venue has opened at the White Rose Retail Centre, creating eight
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A mentoring scheme has been launched to reduce the skills shortage in the trade sector by encouraging young people into metalworking. There is a nationwide skills shortage across the construction industry, with YMCA figures showing a cut to youth services funding by local authorities since 2010. This is making it difficult for employers in the
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Left to Right: Kieran Reilly, Craig Mackie & Ian Westwater In a remarkable branding and digital success, Glasgow-based creative agency Shine has not only profoundly enhanced the digital profile of its client Buchan Guns, but it has also won a top design award for the work delivered. This important brand repositioning was for the Highlands-based
Award-winning JBS Group, the innovative multi-disciplined engineering firm, is executing a series of contract wins worth £2.6m for its Sea Axe technology. The company, based in Peterhead, is undertaking or has already completed several projects in the UK and internationally with the patented solution which enables fast, large-scale mass flow excavation (MFE). The programmes of work include recent support for a global engineering contractor performing reburial work as part
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