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'Late payment culture' costs

Scotland’s late payment culture kills thousands of businesses and causes hundreds of millions pounds of economic damage, according to new Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) research. A new report from the small business campaign group finds that la...
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October retail figures

    WPCS trustee David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC), described the October spike in the number of empty shops in our town centres as: ‘a cause for concern’ when commenting on the latest results of the SRC – Spr...
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Load shedding

In his Workplace Word, this month, East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone asks, 'Have you ever felt like this?' On holiday I saw a basket in a kitchen cupboard of the house we were staying in which read: “Load Shedding Kit”. I had no idea ...
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Call for 'reform of business rates'

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC)  whose members include well known high street, online and grocery retailers, is calling on the Scottish Government to put competitiveness and productivity at the heart of its Budget and Spending Review w...
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FSB responds to Government move

In response to the Scottish Government's recent announcement of a package of measures designed to bolster business confidence and boost the economy, Andy Willox, The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Scottish policy convenor, said: “The curre...
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