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Ahead of World Food Day, Michael Dickson, Co-Lead of our Consumer Practice caught up with a number of our Food Manufacturing clients to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the market at present. The summary was agreement that the UK food production and manufacturing industry stands at a critical juncture as it grapples with significant […]

The independent review commissioned by Kate Forbes MSP prior to going on maternity leave was launched this week by the First Minister at Bute House. The aim of the review was to “identify ways to unlock potential, close the gender gap and boost Scotland’s economy”. The review was led by Ana Stewart, partner at Eos […]

We are delighted to report that one of our clients, Neurodiversity charity Salvesen Mindroom Centre has launched its Neuroinclusion At Work Programme – the UK’s first programme to support workers who are neurodivergent. Backed by the Scottish Government this programme has the aim of helping those with neurodivergence such as autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia. The […]

Adam Brown was recently invited by Kevin Havelock of Royal Bank of Scotland to attend an economic update from Philip Bartlett, Economist at NatWest Group. We thought the following information and attached slides would be of interest to our connections: Looking forward to the end of this lockdown and with the vaccine programme gathering momentum, […]

Judy Wagner and Ailsa Sutherland held the latest in FWB Park Brown’s Female Leadership Forum events on Thursday 2nd July. We were fortunate to have Jane Bruce, CEO and Roz Cushieri, Chair of Social Bite as our guest speakers. During the Covid-19 crisis, Social Bite has been feeding Scotland’s most vulnerable people, re-purposing their entire facilities to deliver […]

On Wednesday 1st July FWB Park Brown hosted the latest in our Third Sector forums. On Wednesday 1st July FWB Park Brown hosted the latest in our Third Sector forums. We were absolutely delighted to be joined by Peter Jaco, Co-founder of the Scottish Tech Army.  Peter walked us through the set up, launch and growth […]

Last week, FWB Park Brown hosted our 5th Female Leadership Forum and were delighted to have Jacqui Gale, CEO of Wax Lyrical as our speaker. Jacqui explained that Wax Lyrical has been through a remarkable journey since March of this year, re-appropriating a business which makes candles and diffusers into one which is now making […]

Monday 29th October saw the 2018 Scottish Fintech Awards held at The Royal Bank of Scotland Gogarburn Headquarters in Edinburgh. The evening was a collaboration among leading Scottish companies; The Royal Bank, FWB Park Brown, The Times and Dell Technologies. The event is one of the largest Fintech pitches held in Scotland with a prize […]

Article in full from The Times, October 30th 2018 By Rosemary Gallagher The winners of a new competition to find the next generation of financial technology entrepreneurs in Scotland have been announced after a Dragons’ Den-style pitch in Edinburgh. The competition has a prize fund totalling £125,000 and is run by The Times, in partnership […]