Tanny Gill: filling a missing link A new academy will raise the status of Scottish cheese, writes JULENA DRUMI Whisky, wine and beer enthusiasts have always relied on age-old methods to provide assurances about quality standards and provenance and now the same guarantees are being offered to the nation’s cheese lovers. Tanny Gill, one of […]
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Orbex talks prompt call for funding rethink
Orbex planned rocket launches from Sutherland Weeks after staging its biggest show of strength in the space sector, uncertainty hangs over one of Scotland’s key players, writes TERRY MURDEN Hundreds of delegates descended on Glasgow for the pre-Christmas Space-Comm Expo to celebrate “a jewel in the UK’s advanced manufacturing crown.” They heard that the rapidly […]
Time to unpack the Patent Box rules
Reforming a complex tax relief scheme could help unlock benefits for SMEs and stimulate innovation, writes GEMMA MONAGHAN A complicated tax relief aimed at encouraging companies to commercialise their innovations is in dire need of reform because it favours the few. The Patent Box scheme is said to be beyond the understanding of many businesses […]
Is your business ready for new rights?
The Employment Rights Act represents a major shift in the law, writes EUAN SMITH It’s no exaggeration to say that the pace of change in UK employment law looks set to be the fastest in a generation, principally because of the Employment Rights Act 2025 which has now received Royal Assent and is to be […]
Sir Tom’s vision: big on scale, light on people
The Entrepreneurs’ Manifesto is too cross, too narrow – and detached from most entrepreneurs, argues IAIN SCOTT Sir Tom Hunter the businessman and philanthropist has, through his Hunter Foundation, published a Manifesto. It is called The Entrepreneurs Manifesto. Now there is something revealing about a missing apostrophe. Entrepreneurs Manifesto. Not Entrepreneurs’. No sense of plurality, […]