Tag: Scottish Government
Scottish Budget: SRC seeks consumer spending stimulus
The Scottish Retail Consortium is seeking the prioritisation of measures which will support consumer spending and help lift...
Scottish wholesalers continue to back kerbside recycling over DRS
The Scottish Wholesale Association (SWA) has voiced its disappointment at the Scottish Government’s decision to ask its environment...
SRC seeks tax relief for struggling consumers
Speaking to 105 industry leaders and parliamentarians at the SRC’s Annual Reception in Edinburgh yesterday (14 June) evening,...
Are you up to speed on new vaping rules?
New legislation comes into effect over the next two months and so SLR gives the low down on...
Time to sign if you sell ecigs
Retailers who stock ecigs and vaping supplies can start signing up to the Register of Tobacco and Nicotine...
SGF welcomes retailer-friendly budget proposals
Scottish Grocers Federation has broadly welcomed several key measures announced in the Scottish government’s draft budget for 2017-2018....
It’s time to take our relationship with Holyrood up a gear
When putting together this month’s cover story on the Scottish Retail Consortium’s outright demand for “tangible actions” from...
Time for the Scottish Government to truly back local retailers?
With continuing economic uncertainty, the fallout of Brexit and a range of other challenges, is it time for...
Broadway’s Big Breakfast goes down well with Health Minister
Amid growing concern about the numbers of children in Scotland at risk of being obese and overweight, local...
Minimum alcohol pricing breaches free-trade laws, says court
The Scottish government’s proposal for minimum unit pricing (MUP) on alcohol is a contravention of EU free-trade laws,...