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Northern businesses perform well, but central belt revenues slump SCOTTISH hotels experienced mixed fortunes last year, with revenues in the central belt falling while hotels...

GLASGOW’S Best Bar None Awards is set to expand into the city’s east end this year. The revamped 2013 awards will extend its reach beyond...

THE owner of Kopparberg Brewery has won a top business award in Sweden. Peter Bronsman was awarded Sweden’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ernst...

JOHN Waterson was one of the great characters of the Scottish trade. Well-known and highly-respected, he had a successful career spanning more than 70...

BUSINESS leaders have launched a campaign calling on the Scottish Government to scrap its decision to delay by two years the next revaluation of business rates. Commercial property firm Colliers International is behind a petition lodged with the Scottish Parliament that claims the move risks having a “devastating” effect on the retail trade.

TENNENT Caledonian has frozen it’s wholesale beer prices for 2013. The brewer confirmed it will not increase the price of Tennent’s Lager, Caledonia Best and...

PUB and hotel firm Whitbread has removed some lasagnes and burgers from its menus after traces of horse meat were found in the products. The...

A GLASGOW restaurant owner last week welcomed the initial findings of a City probe into the sale of interest-rate hedging products (IRHPs) – complex financial products sold by banks alongside or as part of business loans. IRHPs, also known as interest rate swaps, were sold by banks to SMEs, largely between 2001 and 2006, to insure commercial loans against the possibility of interest rates soaring.

ALMOST £100,000 was raised for licensed trade charity the Ben as a record 1007 guests attended the annual dinner in the Glasgow Thistle hotel...

EDINBURGH chefs Tom Kitchin and Dominic Jack have joined forces again to launch a new pub in Stockbridge. The duo, who opened Castle Terrace restaurant...