News & Blog

Read the latest business news, blogs and thought leadership articles from our members, as well as updates on the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce's work in the city.

News & Blog
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    What is neuromarketing and how will it improve your performance?

    27th November 2018

    Offering great services and great products is rarely enough to generate sales. The reason for this lies in our brain. As functional as it is, our brain does not always act in a rational way! Our brain uses precise rules when collecting, processing information and eventually taking decisions. Neuromarketing consists…

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  • Updated statement of licensing policy agreed for Edinburgh

    27th November 2018

    Edinburgh’s Licensing Board has agreed to extend the number of ‘localities’ considered as areas of overprovision of licensed premises. At its meeting on Monday (26 November) the Board agreed to designate four new ‘localities’ as areas overprovided by licensed premises, as part of its updated Statement of Licensing Policy: The Old…

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  • Businesses set to benefit from Virgin Trains and Eurostar collaboration

    27th November 2018

    Businesses are set to benefit from a new collaboration between Virgin Trains and Eurostar which creates an end to end rail booking service between major routes and mainland Europe. In the first partnership of its kind between Eurostar and a UK train operating company, the initiative offers a “one-stop shop”…

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  • Ryden names new Managing Partner

    27th November 2018

    Commercial property consultant Ryden has named Dr Mark Robertson as the firm’s new Managing Partner. Dr Robertson will take over from Bill Duguid who is moving to the role of Chairman after six years as leader of the firm. Ryden recently reported a strong financial year with turnover up 19%.The…

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  • Riddle and Coghill tee up a big win for MND Scotland

    27th November 2018

    Edinburgh based interior design firm, Riddle and Coghill scooped £2,604 for MND Scotland a cause close to the hearts of directors Gus Riddle and Ian Coghill. The firm became Scotland’s national business golf champions in 2018 and won the lump sum for MND Scotland in the process having qualified as…

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    5 tips for successful Christmas arrangements for separated families

    27th November 2018

    As if Christmas wasn’t complicated enough – the gifts, the decorations, the food, the parties, the hangovers – there is an added, and potentially trickier, consideration for separated parents.  Where, and with which parent, do your children spend the festive period, especially Christmas Eve and Day?  This is an issue…

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  • Business Fives is back for the winter with two events in Edinburgh

    27th November 2018

    Business Fives kicks off in Edinburgh this week with the first of 2 events in the city this winter supported by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. The summer season of Business Fives raised over £20,500 for charities across Scotland and the winter season aims to match this amount and help…

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  • The best Christmas for generations” Crieff Christmas celebrates 150 years with ice skating and Christmas Market.

    27th November 2018

    Celebrating 150 years of the biggest and best house parties in Scotland, Crieff Hydro are gearing up for the best Christmas for generations in 2018. At the Hydro, Christmas officially starts in December and lasts the whole month.  On Saturday 1st December we’ll be kicking off our festivities with a…

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  • GCHQ and National Cyber Security Centre certify university course

    27th November 2018

    EDINBURGH Napier’s work to train the next generation of cybersecurity experts has been endorsed by the Government organisation aiming to make Britain the safest place to work and do business online. The university’s BEng (Hons) in Cybersecurity and Forensics has become the first undergraduate course in the UK to be…

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  • Dovecot Studio to unveil 10-year anniversary tapestry

    26th November 2018

    Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh is inviting art and textile lovers to watch the cutting off of Water Surface 2018, its newest tapestry, and celebrate its 10 years in the In firmary Street studio. Water Surface 2018 is almost four metres square and has been hand-woven over the past six months by…

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