Business Opinion

  • Herald View
    22 May 2013

    RETAILERS tend to think about Christmas months before the rest of us.

  • Herald View
    21 May 2013

    THERE is some debate about whether Baroness Thatcher ever said that a man who, beyond the age of 26 finds himself on a bus, can count himself as a failure.

  • How seeds scheme is helping firms to blossom
    16 May 2013

    Given their existing size, scope and capacity for future growth, technology and life sciences are rightly two of the key focus sectors within the Scottish economy.

  • Agenda
    12 May 2013

    Time for some more "Emerging Findings" from the Scottish Government's digital directorate "Supporting the transition to a world-leading digital future", the latest in a series of publications on the subject.

  • HERALD VIEW
    11 May 2013

    "THIS is a great day for Scottish sports fans," said Ian Livingston.

  • Herald view
    10 May 2013
  • Herald view
    9 May 2013

    ONCE upon a time supermarkets were places where we bought groceries.

  • Is failure due to quiet abandonment or lack of competence?
    28 April 2013

    When a government asks a distinguished businessman to audit Scotland's chaotic public IT spending, and then accepts his findings, there is a reasonable expectation that it intends to deliver on them.

  • Online shopping venture Mallzee targets £1m funding for growth
    28 April 2013

    A NEW web venture offering shoppers help to find high street fashions that suit them is vying to raise £1 million at a technology investor conference in Edinburgh next month.

  • Don't give up the day job - yet
    23 April 2013

    When you hear the expression “don’t give up the day job”, hopefully you are sitting on the sofa on a Saturday night watching Simon Cowell deal a crushing blow to a man pretending to be a snail while singing I Want to Break Free, rather being told you have an awful business idea and  should get used to a life of nine to five.

  • Another hurdle for dairy firm Mapping out the future
    21 April 2013

    Graham's Dairies' determination to develop the green belt around the family dairy in Bridge of Allan has become an epic trial of strength between a well-connected local business, a powerful quango, and a vocal local community, spearhaded by Green and Conservative councillors.

  • Herald View
    18 April 2013

    A LOT has changed since the mid-2000s.

  • Why a healthy crane count is good news for Glasgow
    16 April 2013

    Last week I spied a reader’s letter in the Herald’s sister paper, the Evening Times, headed City in Turmoil.