Company News Archive

PROMINENT investor activist Christopher Mills had raised his stake in East Kilbride-based five-a-side football operator Goals Soccer Centres from less than 6% to 8.6%.

SHARES in Carr's Milling Industries soared 12% on the back of record half-year profits.

A FREE travel, lifestyle and business publication is being launched next month by Glasgow Airport and Herald and Times Group, publisher of The Herald, Sunday Herald, Evening Times and an award-winning magazine portfolio including The Scottish Farmer.

AG Barr chief Roger White has sold more than £392,000 of shares following the vesting of a long-term incentive plan (LTIP).

INSURANCE giant AXA is to axe the jobs of 133 financial planners it employs in branches of Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks but is unable to say how many posts will go in the Scotland “region”.

EAST Kilbride-based Burn Stewart Distillers has set its sights on ramping up whisky production and moving into new international markets following its £160 million acquisition by African drinks giant Distell Group.

INDEPENDENT games developer Cobra Mobile is hoping for a major boost in sales as it makes its first release in the Chinese market.

A Scottish international clay pigeon shooter and his fiancée have invested £275,000 to improve their rural tourism business and attract more visitors.

ONLINE legal resource firm Casecheck is launching a web-based continuing professional development (CPD) recorder.

Digger manufacturer JCB has defied a slump in the global construction market to record the highest profits in its 67-year history.

An alarming rise in the number of late payments into company pension schemes could indicate economic turbulence ahead, according to law firm Pinsent Masons.

A NEW wireless monitoring system is being employed in a broad range of industrial processes following a collaboration between Booth Welsh, an Ayrshire-based engineering services company, and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Roadside restaurant chain Little Chef has been put up for sale by turnaround firm R Capital, which bought it out of administration in 2007, according to a report.

JetCut, the waterjet-cutting specialist firm which helped create artist Alasdair Gray's acclaimed Hillhead Underground mural (left), is predicting recession-defying revenue growth of 30% in 2012-13 after investing in new equipment and an aggressive foray into new markets.