Scotland’s climate and geography has come to the rescue of its economy in the past and is ideally placed, to do so again. The density of its populations around the Clyde, Forth and Tay rivers made it ...

More evidence of the potential dangers of a no deal Brexit for Scotland comes in a report showing that skills shortages are already costing Scottish businesses more than £360million a year. The cost r...

The longer the uncertainty over Brexit continues, the more evidence emerges that the shaping of Scotland’s future may be less a matter of personal politics and more about economic necessity. At the ce...

The Scottish engineering sector is in good health, but industry leaders fear a one-size-fits-all immigration policy following Brexit could hinder companies’ ability to recruit the specialists they wil...

The recruitment industry has been identified as a key player in attempts to rebalance the UK economy away from London and the South-East, with Scotland playing an important role. The recent announceme...

Ask anyone in Scotland to name the country’s top performing industries and most will start with oil (until recently, at least) followed by whisky, tourism and fishing. Some might mention niche sectors...

There’s a golden rule in catering that the customer is always right. No matter how demanding or unreasonable their complaints might seem, failing to give them a fair hearing reflects badly on your bus...

Governments that fail to implement much-vaunted manifesto commitments inevitably suffers at the polls. Just look at the Liberal Democrats who continue to be punished by voters over their failure to ho...

The recruitment industry is one of the most buoyant and fastest growing in the UK and it’s expected to continue increasing in size at least until 2024, according to a new study. The Recruitment Indust...

Among the many new challenges facing businesses in the highly competitive catering industry is an increasing focus on sustainability. Every year almost two million tonnes of surplus food is disposed o...