Business

THE Apprentice it is not. If you ask for the boss, rather than being put through to a thrusting entrepreneur you take your pick from the whole workforce. That…

MORE public money will be required if Inverness firm AWS Ocean Energy is to develop a successful wave power device, despite the company last week announcing…

WHEN Loch Ness cruise company Jacobite wanted to improve its green credentials, it realised it did not have the knowledge in-house. So it called on…

WITH all talk of the Scottish elections now well behind us, it’s time to look forward. For the SNP administration, it’s also time to look North.

FIVE new jobs are being created at Ernst & Young’s Inverness offices as part of an ongoing drive to double its turnover. The appointments, in the tax…

ONE of the region’s leading businessmen is aiming for a £20 million turnover by 2016 after his IT company formally launched its “unique” product. Peter…

INVERNESS medical products firm LifeScan Scotland has posted a pre-tax profit of £84.7m for 2010, up from £60.7m the previous year.

WELL then, we now have a majority Government in the Scottish Parliament. This is unprecedented in Holyrood and questions now abound around how this will…

ENTRIES have opened for the only awards aimed at a sector which supports 30,000 jobs in the Highlands and Islands and generates annual sales of more than…

BARCLAYS’ company banking arm is looking to double its workforce in Inverness and predicts the regional economy will outperform the Scottish average.

A TRIP to a world famous American management centre has prompted a Highland company to pursue an unusual new project. Interim management firm Grampian…

FIRMS in Inverness are being offered the opportunity to develop trade links with Sri Lanka, where the government is currently investing heavily after…

INVERNESS IT expert William Murray seeking business abroad as a way of overcoming the economic downturn. He estimates that 90 per cent of his clients…

MAY 6th: Highland Business Dinner, with guest speaker Alastair Campbell. Drumossie Hotel, Inverness.

THIS week will be busy for many in the Highland business community and for all of us at Inverness Chamber of Commerce. In a few days time we will know…

A RESTRUCTURING is under way within Inverness’ Tulloch Homes Group as the company strives to return to profit. Chief executive David Sutherland says…

A decision to put an historic building in Nairn on the market has sparked concern within the community.