Rich List 2026: retail giant stays on top as new Scottish tech billionaire breaks through

Anders Holch Povlsen tops the Scotland list, according to this year’s edition of THE SUNDAY Times Rich List, published today online at https://www.thetimes.com/Sunday-times-rich-list and in a 76-page special edition of THE SUNDAY Times Magazine on Sunday, May 17. Povlsen is Scotland’s largest landowner and owns the Shetland rocket launchpad. Rising profits lifted the value of his retail group, Bestseller, to £6.5 billion and there […]

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Scotland’s Growth Businesses Are Resilient — But Tariffs, Energy Costs and Supply Chains Are Tightening the Squeeze

Scotland’s business community is holding its ground in 2026, but new data from both the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) paint a picture of mounting pressure — particularly for export-facing and scaling companies navigating a turbulent global environment. The ONS this week published its latest Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) subnational […]

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