Edinburgh City Council is expected to confirm this week that internal officer Paul Lawrence will become the authority's next chief executive.

A Scottish software testing firm has secured an eight-figure private equity investment to accelerates its £50m turnover target, possibly through acquisitions.

UK house prices continue to edge up in spite of higher mortgage costs, according to new data from Halifax. Average prices edged up by 0.1% in April, following a fall of 0.9% in March. Annual house ...

BP has posted a 40% fall in first-quarter earnings to $2.7 billion as a result of lower oil and gas prices and a US refinery outage.

Packaging company Macfarlane Group said the start of 2024 has been challenging with first quarter sales and profits below the same period in 2023. However, its expectations for the full year are ...

Brewing giant Heineken is reopening 62 pubs in a £39m refurbishment programme that includes some of those shut during the Covid lockdown.

Trump Turnberry has appointed veteran hotelier Nic Oldham to the role of general manager, ushering in a new era for the resort. Mr Oldham, pictured, was formerly director of sales & marketing at Trump ...

Sir Tom Hunter is among the backers of British lending firm Abound which is raising up to £800 million to accelerate its expansion. The Scottish businessman is understood to have joined the funding ...

Work has begun on a €120 million energy from waste facility in Tayside that is being set up by France-based Paprec and Binn Group, Scotland’s largest independent waste management company. The project ...

Emirates airline will return to Edinburgh from November as the city is named among the first nine destinations to be served ...

Scottish Labour has demanded government ministers apply more pressure on chemicals giant Petroineos to continue refining at ...

Thirteen Scotland-based businesses are recognised in the second King’s Awards for Enterprise which recognise achievement in ...