The findings that appeared in our Enterprise HQ Month-to-month complement present administrators assume Holyrood is behind Westminster on the financial system.
Requested if the Scottish Authorities is doing a greater or worse job on enterprise and the financial system than the UK Authorities, or whether or not their performances are related, 68% of the 133 respondents, 91 in all, stated “worse”, 13% declared “higher” and 19% believed “related”.
It additionally discovered 85% of respondents believed the likelihood of an independence referendum had fallen within the final yr.
The ballot additional reveals a agency view the Scottish Authorities is just not right to make use of its devolved powers to levy higher revenue tax on increased earners.
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Historic Glasgow jeweller places sparkle into excessive road with £20m funding
You don’t must look far for indicators of decline on the town and metropolis centres throughout the UK, particularly because the financial system continues to grapple with the fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing upheaval within the retail sector.
Nonetheless, one in every of Scotland’s oldest jewellers is reinforcing its dedication to the excessive road. Household-owned Laings, which might hint its roots again to 1840, is endeavor a capital funding programme anticipated to price as much as £20 million that may rework its bricks and mortar presence in its residence metropolis of Glasgow and different buying and selling areas across the UK.
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Brexit label change to price Scottish household dairy £300,000
A Scottish dairy has criticised Brexit labelling plans as a “enormous price for a household agency”.
The managing director of Scotland’s largest unbiased dairy has urged the UK Authorities to rethink its “not for EU” labelling scheme which is about to be launched in October and can rack up payments out of nowhere for companies all through the nation. Robert Graham, of Graham’s Household Dairy stated that the proposed transition would price the agency £300,000 earlier than even contemplating the price of labour time, complexity and extra operating prices.
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Social Hub brings new period of blended residing to Glasgow pupil housing
The highly-awaited opening of The Social Hub – a mixture of four-star resort, pupil lodging, co-working area and leisure services – will formally happen on April 12 following a £90 million funding in a 20,000 sq. metre new-build hub in Glasgow’s Service provider Metropolis.
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The idea is the brainchild of Edinburgh native Charlie MacGregor, who arrange the primary of what has grown right into a portfolio of 18 motels in 2012 in Rotterdam.
“Glasgow is on hearth. Glasgow is buzzing. It has been buzzing for a very long time, so we’re actually excited,” Mr MacGregor stated.
“We have now Glasgow and Edinburgh in our targets – we wish to nonetheless be in Edinburgh, so we’ve been wanting in each cities for a very long time.”
