Category: News

Hardies Chartered Surveyors has acquired the Glasgow-based Storrier & Donaldson Quantity Surveying practice in a private deal, strengthening its cost management offering across Glasgow and the west of Scotland. Under the terms of the acquisition, Storrier & Donaldson owner Robert Currie joins Hardies as Consultant Partner. His team relocates to the Glasgow city centre offices […]

Highland Council has granted planning permission to Protium for the Cromarty Green Hydrogen Production Facility (CGHPF), a 15MW green hydrogen electrolysis plant in Alness, near Inverness. The decision, taken by the north planning committee on Wednesday 5 August 2026, clears the way for the first stage of what Protium calls the Highland Hydrogen Hub. The […]

CB&I Asset Solutions has signed a 10-year lease on Caledonia House at Prime Four Business Park in Kingswells, taking more than 103,000 sq ft of grade A space in what the landlord, Drum Property Group, calls the largest office deal in Aberdeen since 2017. The tenant is the North Sea business bought out of the […]

BP has launched a formal process to market its UK North Sea business for a potential sale, and Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce has responded by putting the decision squarely at the door of Downing Street. In a statement issued on 31 July, BP said the move “forms part of bp’s ongoing portfolio review” […]

Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games closed at the OVO Hydro on Sunday evening, ending an 11-day event that Glasgow Chamber of Commerce says has demonstrated the city’s capacity to stage a global sporting event on a leaner, privately funded model. The 2026 Games were delivered by Glasgow 2026 Limited, the private Organising Company established after the Australian […]

Organisers of the North of Scotland Trades Awards have reported a record number of applications for the 2026 edition of the sector’s regional event, with entries confirmed across fourteen competitive categories ahead of the ceremony in October. Now in its 14th year and sponsored by WM Donald, the Trades Awards is one of the region’s […]

Confidence among Scotland’s private businesses has fallen sharply through the first half of 2026, but firms are responding by backing themselves rather than pulling back, according to the latest edition of KPMG UK’s annual Private Enterprise Barometer. The research, which revisits the same Scottish businesses surveyed at the start of the year, shows that confidence […]

Coatbridge-based Galino Limited, a manufacturer of fasteners and machine-screw products in business for 45 years, has been placed into administration, with all 12 staff made redundant. David McGinness and Judith Howson of AAB Business & Tax Advisory have been appointed joint administrators. Administrator David McGinness said the business ceased to trade on appointment and that […]

Scotland’s financial and professional services sector has added around 21,000 jobs since 2023, taking total employment to about 157,000, according to a five-year strategy midpoint update from Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). The update, published to mark SFE’s 40th anniversary, records 15% employment growth over the period. The sector’s gross value added has risen from £14.3bn […]

The British Business Bank has committed £10m to Edinburgh-headquartered Odyssey Ventures as a cornerstone investor in the firm’s new seed and pre-seed fund, Odyssey Discovery I. The commitment forms part of the Bank’s Nations and Regions Investment Programme, which allocates capital to fund managers outside London. Odyssey Discovery I is a roughly £39m ($50m) fund […]