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The new Scottish Enterprise chairman Crawford Gillies has visited television production company Shed Media Scotland as part of a tour of the Digital Media Quarter (DMQ) on Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.

The finalists of the Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards have been announced. The Awards ceremony and dinner will be held on Thursday 26 March 2009 at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC).

Scotland’s premier recruitment fair for the gaming industry returns to Dundee this month for its fourth consecutive year with over 500 people from around the country and abroad expected to attend.

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary of Finance and Sustainable Growth, announced today (6 March 2009 ) the completion of the funding package for Dundee Central Waterfront by confirming that Scottish Enterprise will invest over £33 million, matching the funding of partner, Dundee City Council.

Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International will next week lead a delegation of public and private sector partners to MIPIM 2009 - the world's largest real estate exhibition, held annually in Cannes.

The Scottish-based oil and gas supply chain industry posted a 10 per cent increase in sales in 2007-2008, with revenues climbing to a record £14.2 billion according to a new survey published today (2 March 2008) by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI).

A new initiative to be launched tomorrow (3 March) will help Scottish tourism businesses understand their customers and look at ways of adapting products and services to meet increasing expectations.

Glasgow’s International Financial Services District (IFSD) remains on course to achieve all of its targets by 2011, according to the results of an independent economic study.

Scottish Enterprise, together with Highlands and Islands Enterprise, today begins the hunt for Scotland's enterprise success stories with the launch of the Enterprising Britain 2009 competition.

The new berthing facilities at Stranraer Harbour provide Stranraer and the surrounding area with an exciting opportunity to attract new visitors and help stimulate the development of Stranraer and Loch Ryan as a marine leisure destination.

Twenty new projects with the potential to grow into Scotland’s technology companies of the future have been set up in just over two years with the help of a new commercialisation programme.

A world-leading futurologist will reveal his vision of tomorrow's tourism trade to industry decision makers in Scotland. Magnus Lindkvist from Pattern Recognition will be presenting at Scottish Enterprise's tourism masterclass, 'Future: Where our industry and your business is going' in Gleneagles on Monday 23 February 2009.