Sep 15 2023 How we’ve been supporting our clients, Arbuckle’s Farm and Shop Categories: Food & DrinkLeisure Family businesses comes in all shapes and sizes, and being able to diversify can mean the difference between success and failure, especially for those in the food and drink sector. One of those clients is P A Arbuckle & Sons, who are a family farming business that have been involved in farming for multiple generations. They specialise more
Feb 10 2023 Have your say in the restriction of alcohol advertising and promotion consultation Categories: Food & Drink In November 2022, the Scottish Government launched its consultation paper seeking views on potential restrictions to alcohol advertising and promotion in Scotland. The paper covers a wide range of potential restrictions on all of the major sources of exposure to alcohol advertising and promotion in Scotland, including advertising outdoors, in-store, and through sports and events more
Oct 26 2022 Net Zero Transition Fund Categories: Food & Drink In the current climate, businesses have been looking at new ways to reduce their carbon emissions but introducing new equipment or processes can be costly. Businesses in the food & drink and tourism sectors especially are still feeling the financial pressures from the past few years. To offer financial support to these sectors, Invest Fife more
Jul 19 2022 Are you looking for ways to save time in your business? Categories: BookkeepingCloud AccountingFood & Drink We have found that the level of automation available from using accounting software, such as Xero, benefits a business by reducing the time taken to process the books and records. It can also enable you to extract more accurate, up to date information allowing you to make better, more informed decisions. There are other tasks more
May 13 2022 The Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation Grant Scheme Categories: AgricultureFood & Drink The next round of the annual Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation Grant Scheme (FPMC) is now open for applications. As one of a number of funding schemes which make up the Scottish Rural Development Programme, the FPMC provides £10.2 million of grant funding to businesses (or groups of businesses) within the Scottish food & drink sector more
Feb 1 2022 Further funding support available for Scottish Food & Drink businesses Categories: COVID-19Food & Drink The Scottish Government has released details on two funding opportunities available for food & drink businesses that were affected by the control measures put in place in December 2021. The applications are now open for the £2 million Scottish Food & Drink Producers Fund and a further round of the Scottish Wholesale Food & Drink more
Nov 16 2021 How can your food & drink businesses focus on sustainability? Categories: Food & Drink We attended Brodie’s Food and Drink Virtual Conference today and it was interesting to hear the speakers, along with everyone else following COP26, discussing sustainability in food & drink businesses. While there were many issues highlighted, the main one to consider is what can you do to appeal to this additional part of the market. more
Jul 2 2021 Is now the time to refinance? Categories: Food & DrinkLeisure The Bank of England base rate is at a historic low of 0.1% making debt as cheap as it has ever been, so the time might be right to review existing debt facilities. With lockdown restrictions continuing to ease, cash will be required to help get businesses back to pre-covid levels and therefore an opportunity more