Maxi Group, the Ayrshire haulage-to-construction firm, has almost doubled its pre-tax profits to £3.1m in spite of the adverse impact of soaring fuel costs.
Scottish Business in the Community (SBC) is urging more companies to adopt their own "green champions" to promote more environmentally- friendly ways of doing business.
Royal Bank of Scotland said yesterday that thousands of businesses that will have charges levied on their accounts for the first time were "legacy customers" who will be moved to a competitive account.
SME Focus: This week, we hear from one man who bounced back from the bitter blow of redundancy by going into business, ultimately in competition with the firm that laid him off. By Mark Williamson
Graeme Evans
Construction firms Bellway and Redrow were yesterday the subject of speculation about a £1.3bn merger to
create one of the UK's biggest housebuilders.
A bid for British Energy could emerge this week at a price between 600p and 640p a share, according to reports yesterday which suggested that the government has failed in its attempt to pump up the price through an auction of its stake in the nuclear utility.
The London stock market surged yesterday, as traders welcomed a smaller-than-feared drop in US employment and falling sterling interbank lending rates.
Jim McColl, the engineering entrepreneur, is raising money for a £200m private equity fund to provide a new investment platform for his Clyde Blowers business empire.
The final collapse of Glasgow-based homeware chain Au Naturale is "imminent", creditors of the stricken company were told at a behind-closed-doors meeting yesterday.
James Anderson, whose £2.28bn Scottish Mortgage fund defied an overall fall in world stock markets with investment gains of £159m in the year to March 31, yesterday declared that global turmoil "has created some great opportunities" for him.
Internacionale, the beleaguered Glasgow-based fashion chain, has been sold off to an unnamed buyer - but its sister company Au Naturale is to be plunged into administration with the loss of up to 1500 jobs, The Herald has learned.
M&S chief executive Sir Stuart Rose yesterday sought to rebuild his reputation with shareholders by announcing he is selling his £100,000 stake in a company owned by one of the non-executives who is meant to supervise him.
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