Company News Archive

THE DUKE of Buccleuch has hailed the progress made by the group that looks after his family's business interests after it grew profits 21% in the latest financial year.

TALISMAN Energy produced an average 21,000 barrels oil equivalent daily in the UK North Sea in the first quarter of the year.

LAW firm Dundas & Wilson has increased its proportion of female partners to more than 30% following 10 promotions.

IAN MacLeod Distillers is poised to release its first single malt from the Tamdhu distillery since its acquisition from The Famous Grouse-owner Edrington Group in 2011.

ENEMETRIC has received £845,000 of Regional Selective Assistance funding less than a year after buying Powerwall from administration.

Fledgling bank Aldermore has unveiled its first annual profit as its drive to challenge the big high street players gathers pace.

Caledonian Alloys, the US-owned business which is the world's largest recycler of aerospace metals, saw its pre-tax profits slip modestly in 2012 after doubling the previous year.

Royal Bank of Scotland will today attempt to overturn a landmark Court of Session judgment, which upheld a developer's claim that the bank had a contractual obligation to deliver a promised loan.

LLOYDS Banking Group has said its bill for selling Lloyds TSB Scotland and other businesses could rise by £300 million to £1.6 billion after the collapse of the sale to Co-operative Bank, as the group recorded a near tripling in underlying first quarter profit to £1.5bn.

THE Island Smokery on Orkney is ramping up its production after securing a deal to supply 45 Tesco stores across Scotland, which started this week.

SCOTGOLD, the mining company with ambitions to dig precious metals out of the hills of Argyll, has put a planned fundraising on ice due to the recent gold price meltdown.

Whitbread has vowed to step up expansion of its Premier Inn and Costa chains in a move set to create 12,000 jobs over the next five years.

A Scottish company that provides complex support services for investment management firms has achieved multimillion-pound sales and created around 40 jobs in its first two full years in business.

GREENFOLD Systems, which developed from the remnants of the former Simclar manufacturing business, has been appointed preferred bidder by English Heritage for a contract to build visitor transportation carriages for Stonehenge.