IN this week's SME Focus we hear from an entrepreneurial City escapee who is enjoying running a business that relies on sophisticated modern communications links from a Scottish island where the weather can pose unusual challenges.
IN this week's SME Focus the story of two entrepreneurs who have successfully commercialised some of the results of the research in Scotland's world- class universities shows how much big and small firms can gain from working together.
A Scottish businessman who sells golfing goods online is opening a £1.5 million centre in Aberdeen where fans of the game will be able to buy kit and enjoy a round on a simulation of an elite course.
ROBERT Baltzer, who runs Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford's High-Yield Bond and Investment Grade Long Bond funds, has risen to first place in The Herald's monthly table of top-performing asset managers working for Scottish investment houses.
STANDING in a remarkably clean looking industrial unit in west Glasgow on a chilly winter morning, one of Scotland's leading entrepreneurs regards the prospects for 2012 with the kind of confidence that seems to be in short supply in business circles.
IN this week's SME Focus a successful branding specialist who got started in advertising by chance reflects on the importance of people to a service businesses.
When Alex Neil promised a January "action" plan for superfast broadband, he raised hopes that men in vans would be installing hi-tech fibre cabinets around the lochs and glens in a matter of months, catching up with what has happened from the Isles of Scilly to the hills of Antrim.
ANY fool can see the SNP proposals on independence are a long way short of what a standard grade modern studies student would think the word independence means.
LLOYDS Banking Group's Edinburgh-based fund management business Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Lucy O'Carroll as its chief economist.
AS George Osborne prepares to deliver his Budget on March 21, an entrepreneurial human resources specialist calls for the Chancellor to cut the VAT rate from 20% to provide the kind of boost that is needed by the small businesses that he is relying on to create jobs.
ONE of Scotland's leading entrepreneurs has said independence would be bad for business in Scotland, fearing it could provoke an anti-Scottish backlash south of the Border.
STEVE Remp has bowed out of SeaEnergy with a £500,000 pay-off, 34 years after he founded its predecessor Ramco Energy, to return to his pioneering roots.
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