SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh fund group, more than doubled pre-tax profits last year from £1.2m to £2.6m, as a successful push into the retail market restored its momentum.
The diary: There was an immediate sign of the changing times at Carphone Warehouse after the company sold half of its retail business to US electronics giant Best Buy this week.
BAA, the Spanish-owned company that operates Scotland's three main air terminals, said yesterday it has appointed David Johnston - currently managing director of Edinburgh Airport - as group procurement director.
Festival Inns, the Edinburgh-based leisure empire owned by entrepreneur
Kenneth Waugh, has posted a second successive annual loss. However, it says the pub smoking ban has been "on the whole positive".
Plans to toughen the driving test announced this week could eventually cut car insurance costs for all drivers - but only if insurers change their charging habits.
Garden centre chain Dobbies was today set for a legal clash with billionaire entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter over its plans to raise £150 million from shareholders.
Freescale Semiconductor conceded finally yesterday that it was "unlikely" to find a buyer to continue production at its East Kilbride fabrication plant - a view its employees have held since its plans to quit the site were revealed by The Herald 11 months ago.
At least three companies - Spanish energy group Iberdrola, French utility EDF and the German-based power generator RWE - are expected to submit bids for British Energy when the deadline for offers expires today.
Eric Daniels, the chief executive of Lloyds TSB, and the rest of banking giant's board of directors yesterday could hardly contain their self-satisfaction amid the global credit crunch that had rocked almost everyone's world but theirs.
The Bank of England yesterday declined to implement consecutive monthly cuts in benchmark UK interest rates, with inflation fears likely to have led to it staying its hand in spite of signs that economic growth is slowing sharply.
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance distanced itself yesterday from reports that it might be in the frame to buy parts of Royal Bank of Scotland' s £5bn insurance business.
British Polythene Industries (BPI) said performance had improved since April but
that results for the first half would still be behind those of last year.
A chain of Best Buy electronics stores is to be built in the UK in defiance of worries about a subdued British consumer after the US company bought a 50% stake in the retail arm of Carphone Warehouse.
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