Category: News

Livingston Designer Outlet has secured a major upsizing and relocation for global sportswear brand Nike, in a move that will nearly double the brand’s footprint at the West Lothian destination and further entrench its position as Scotland’s leading outlet centre. The expanded Nike factory store is scheduled to open in late September 2026 and will […]

Scottish Business News has highlighted new analysis from Hyperoptic showing how Scotland’s late‑night World Cup fixtures against Morocco and Brazil shifted the usual pattern of evening broadband demand. According to the report, Hyperoptic’s network data showed traffic staying higher for longer as fans followed the matches from home, rather than tailing off towards the end […]

Young people from disadvantaged and under‑represented backgrounds are being urged to apply for a new Scottish Government programme designed to help them turn ideas into high‑growth businesses. The First Minister’s Start Up Challenge, now open for applications, will support 20 aspiring entrepreneurs aged 18–30 through a six‑month “accelerated entrepreneurial apprenticeship”. Delivered in partnership with The […]

Scotland’s entrepreneurial community put a new wave of high‑growth ventures in the spotlight last night as 32 businesses shared £1.4m in funding at the Scottish EDGE Round 27 finals in Edinburgh. A The awards ceremony took place on 18 June at the Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre, bringing founders together from sectors spanning healthtech, […]

Scotland’s employee ownership community has taken centre stage at the UK Employee Ownership Awards 2026, with three Scottish businesses and leaders recognised as the UK’s EO sector plots further rapid growth. The latest UK figures show the employee owned (EO) sector has grown 300% between 2020 and 2025 to 2,890 businesses, and is now expected […]

Techscaler was Scotland’s attempt to build the connective tissue its startup ecosystem had long lacked at national scale: one network linking founders, mentors, operators, investors, education and place across the country rather than leaving that work scattered across individual cities and institutions. Two years on from its initial rollout, that network is no longer an […]

French renewables developer Qair has reached financial close on its first UK project, the 46.51 MWp Brecks Solar Farm, while its 1 GW Ayre floating wind farm off Orkney has secured onshore consent and moved a step closer to construction around 2030. Ayre: 1 GW floating wind off Orkney Ayre is a 1 GW floating […]

Construction of the £9.1m EnergyWorks facility in Aberdeen and a new TechX accelerator cohort of 11 cleantech start‑ups highlight how the Net Zero Technology Centre is trying to turn the North East into a net‑zero innovation and manufacturing hub. EnergyWorks: a physical home for cleantech scale‑ups Construction has begun on the £9.1 million EnergyWorks facility […]

Scotland’s economy grew just 0.1% in Q1 2026 as services and construction offset a sharp fall in production, leaving ministers defending their growth strategy in a Holyrood debate on “Growing Scotland’s Economy”. Scotland’s onshore GDP rose by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2026, down from 0.2% in the final quarter of 2025 and well […]

By High Growth Scotland editorial Scotland’s public sector is quietly turning a familiar-sounding procurement roadshow into part of the country’s growth infrastructure. Meet the Buyer-style events are now a core way councils and agencies open up billions of pounds of contract opportunities to smaller, high-growth firms rather than just the usual majors. At the centre […]