‘Future chamber’ launches as part of a big year of change at the Ayrshire...

Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce welcomed 28 new faces last week as they launched the eagerly anticipated ‘Future Chamber’ initiative. The exciting new concept provides FREE Enterprise Membership in addition to a structured program of...

GDPR Advice for Entrepreneurs

GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) is the latest legislation in the area of data protection and promises to be the biggest shake up to European privacy laws in over twenty years. It will...

Sandstone Press,
the international
literary publisher in the highlands

In 2011, The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. At that time, the idea of a business such as Sandstone, located in the Highlands, was so...

Smiles all round for Perthshire’s top business

It was smiles all round as Blackhills Specialist Dental Clinic lifted Perthshire’s premier business award. The Aberuthven-based sector leader got its teeth into the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce “Business Of The Year 2017” title at...

Business optimism growing but recruitment and raw material costs pose challenge

  As part of the Chamber Network’s regular intelligence gathering, the Quarterly Economic Indicator, run in partnership with the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute, monitors the pulse of the economy and business sentiment....

ROCCOs celebrate success

A capacity crowd of 470 people watched 16 awards presented at the ROCCO’s on Friday 17th November at the Normandy Hotel, Renfrew - the annual business awards of Renfrewshire Chamber. The area’s premier business...

Family businesses make their mark in Lochaber

Family businesses account for nearly a quarter of UK GDP and employ nearly 12 million people, however, only 43% have a succession plan and only 12% will make it through to the third generation:...

2017 Scottish Borders Business Excellence Awards

Celebrating all that is best in the Borders business sector, the 2017 Scottish Borders Business Excellence Awards ceremony took place on Friday 3rd November at Springwood Park, Kelso. For the third year in a...

NES planning a major expansion in Scotland

NES is pleased to announce that the company is marking five years in business by planning a major expansion of our Scottish operations NES (North Electrical Services) Ltd, which is based in Inverness and Elgin, has...

Scotland’s long tradition of global enterprise and entrepreneurship

With official figures painting a picture of lacklustre growth in Scotland’s economy, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Indicator (QEI) offered some respite from the January blues. The results of the survey, produced in...