Company News Archive

  • Auction house in profit
    Saturday 13 April 2013

    Scotland's oldest auction house has recorded a retained profit of £180,157 according to accounts filed at Companies House.

  • Four Intertek posts created
    Saturday 13 April 2013

    INTERTEK has created four jobs at a centre in Grangemouth where it can train and assess people working in potentially explosive environments.

  • Lees works round the clock to meet demand
    Saturday 13 April 2013

    Lees Group, the Scots confectioner that left the Alternative Investment Market last summer, is working round the clock to meet surging demand and creating another 20 jobs in Lanarkshire.

  • Aggreko powers ahead with 8% rise in revenue
    Saturday 13 April 2013

    TEMPORARY power supplier Aggreko unveiled an 8% rise in underlying revenue while confirming it hopes to remove its generators from weather-affected parts of the west coast of Scotland within weeks.

  • Firstcall is buoyed by targeting the green revolution
    Friday 12 April 2013

    A Scottish company is reporting a significant surge in work following a decision to restructure its business to target the Government's Green Deal campaign.

  • Recovery at Havelock as losses narrow
    Friday 12 April 2013

    HAVELOCK Europa, the Fife-based retail and educational interiors group, declared its recovery plan was on track after seeing pre-tax losses from continuing operations narrow from £2.9 million to £483,000.

  • Growth in fees reported at Hays
    Friday 12 April 2013

    GLOBAL recruitment specialist Hays has reported good growth in net fees from its placement of staff in Scotland in the quarter ended March 31, 2013.

  • Aker secures £30m contract for work on landmark Solan field
    Friday 12 April 2013

    AKER Solutions, a big employer in Aberdeen, has won a contract worth more than £30 million to help commission facilities on a landmark oilfield development west of Shetland.

  • Mothercare in better shape after overhaul
    Friday 12 April 2013

    Mothercare said it was on a "firmer footing" after jettisoning loss-making stores and posting better-than-expected sales figures.

  • Barwell suffers £1.3m loss in tough conditions
    Friday 12 April 2013

    The Scottish venture capital business owned by the fifth Viscount Gough has incurred another year of losses amid difficult conditions for firms that back early stage companies.

  • Wolfson signs Samsung audio components deal
    Friday 12 April 2013

    WOLFSON has signed a multi-year agreement to provide audio components to Samsung's range of smartphones and tablets.

  • App-smart i-limb launch
    Friday 12 April 2013

    PROSTHETIC limb maker Touch Bionics has launched a new product that can be adjusted using a smartphone app.

  • Standard Life critical of BP's pay packages
    Friday 12 April 2013

    HEAVYWEIGHT funds house Standard Life Investments (SLI) has attacked BP's executive pay practices and demanded the oil giant make "significant improvements" to its remuneration policies.

  • Mothercare sales ahead of expectations
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    Mothercare said it was on a "firmer footing" today after jettisoning loss-making stores and posting better-than-expected sales figures.

  • Prezzo earnings rise as expansion continues
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    Prezzo, the restaurant chain with six Scottish outlets, saw its shares jump 5% after reporting an 11% rise in underlying profit to £18.3 million.

  • Daisy to pay maiden dividend
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    DAISY Group, the business communications company, has announced plans to pay its maiden dividend.

  • Shopfitter is boosted by NHS contract
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    AGM Group, the Port Glasgow-based office and shop fit-out specialist, has signalled its hope that confidence is returning to the commercial property market after winning a £400,000 contract in Glasgow.

  • Cairn India output rises
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    THE Cairn India business now owned by Vedanta Resources increased oil and gas production by 19% in the year to March, driven by a one-third increase in output in Rajasthan.

  • Breedon to buy 11 Scottish quarries for £34m
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    DERBY-based quarrying company Breedon Aggregates has agreed a £34 million deal to buy 11 Scottish quarries and a raft of asphalt and concrete plants from rival Aggregate Industries as it positions itself to bid for work on the A9 upgrade and the controversial Aberdeen western by-pass.

  • Omega share price slips after profits warning
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    SHARES in Omega Diagnostics slipped 0.8% after it confirmed to investors its annual profit will be down and cautioned that development of its HIV testing kit is taking longer than expected.

  • Reed collects two recruitment awards
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    REED Recruitment has picked up two prizes at the s1jobs.com annual recruitment awards ceremony.

  • Tulloch stake for Goldman
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    Tulloch Homes, the Inverness-based housebuilder, said Goldman Sachs Bank and the TPG private equity business had acquired a 40% stake from Lloyds Banking Group.

  • Statoil awards £160m deal to Odfjell Drilling
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    STATOIL has awarded a £160 million contract for drilling work on the development of the giant Mariner heavy oil field east of Shetland to Odfjell Drilling, which has a big base in Aberdeen.

  • Halfords sees bikes sales dip
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    Freezing weather sent bicycle sales tumbling at Halfords but boosted sales of de-icer and screenwash, allowing the retailer to maintain positive momentum for the year.

  • Wood extends flagship contract with Total
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    WOOD Group said it has won a significant extension to a flagship North Sea contract from Total, expected to be worth around an additional $150 mil-lion (£98m) to the oil and gas services giant.

  • Maven agrees £4.8m loan fund deals with three companies
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    GLASGOW-based private equity house Maven Capital Partners has agreed £4.8 million of funding for three growing companies from the Scottish Loan Fund (SLF).

  • Low & Bonar's good start
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    LOW & Bonar has signalled an improving performance in its yarns business which employs 120 people in Dundee.

  • Fitsip hopes to tap into a healthy marketplace
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    THE sight of runners clutching bottles of water as they pound the streets may soon be a lot less common.

  • Cairn Energy upgrades well capacity
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    Cairn Energy's decision to return to the North Sea appears to be paying off after the company increased the estimated size of a big find it made off Norway.

  • Aggreko 'excesses' concern
    Wednesday 10 April 2013

    SHAREHOLDER group PIRC has raised concerns about executive remuneration at temporary power supplier Aggreko, urging shareholders to oppose its remuneration report at the annual meeting later this month.