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North-east companies are being encouraged to think creatively to help them face today’s business challenges with confidence

On the anniversary of the London 2012 Business Network launch, a group of Scottish companies met with Olympic Park contractors and London Organising Committee (LOCOG) representatives to discuss opportunities to help deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The companies represented a cross-section of Scottish business including IT, security and manufacturing.

Developing international trade opportunities with Turkey was the theme of a seminar held in Glasgow this week.

Scottish Enterprise has launched a three-year campaign to boost the number of new recruits entering the shipbuilding and engineering industry in Scotland.

The deadline for companies planning to enter the Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards 2009 has been extended to 6 February 2009.

BNP Paribas Securities Services (‘BNP Paribas’) has announced 80 new posts for its Glasgow investment operations with the recruitment process now underway.

Scotland’s most innovative medical and pharmaceutical companies and health professionals will be honoured at the annual Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Awards 2009 on 5 February.

Scottish Enterprise today (21 January, 2009) welcomed the announcement that Crawford Gillies is to be its new chairman.

Scotland’s flagship life sciences project, Edinburgh BioQuarter, has been given a massive financial boost with the announcement of a multi million pound commercialisation initiative funded by Scottish Enterprise and the University of Edinburgh.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) has today (15 January 2009) confirmed plans to integrate its subsidiary ITI Scotland within the agency’s wider research, commercialisation and innovation operations.

Scotland’s next generation of business leaders arrived in Boston this weekend to start an intensive year-long international programme, which aims to give them the skills and entrepreneurial drive to transform Scottish companies into global businesses of scale.

Whilst many companies are cutting back in the current economic downturn, Pearson Donaldson Properties are looking to the future and are currently developing new office accommodation at Cavalry Park in Peebles.