Chamber News

Stephen Leckie, President of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Chair of the Scottish Tourism Alliance and Chairman and Chief Executive of Crieff Hydro is to be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Highland Business Awards.  Stephen Leckie is the fifth generation of his family to run the Crieff Hydro hotel and estate since the doors opened on Scotland’s […]

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We’re all now familiar with the cost of living crisis – how households are struggling to keep up with bills and afford the rapidly rising cost of food, fuel and other essentials. But there’s another crisis which is dramatically hitting businesses, and that’s the ‘cost of doing business’ crisis.  Firms across the country are being

The UK’s largest regional airline has said the Scottish Highlands can provide a “key building block” in the drive to decarbonise the country’s air transport system. Loganair believes proposed large-scale green hydrogen production in the region would play a crucial role in establishing the range of national infrastructure needed for airlines to switch to clean,

Leading Scotch whisky maker Whyte and Mackay has said the establishment of a Green Freeport in the Scottish Highlands would help it achieve its target of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. The firm, which is the largest distiller in the north of Scotland, is expected to be one of the first users of green hydrogen

Stewart Nicol, our chief executive , has written to ministers and transport chiefs to say he is “extremely concerned” about the way the study was framed. The future of the £3billion route upgrade between Inverness and Aberdeen has been in doubt since the SNP and Greens signed a power-sharing deal last year. The Press and

International Trade is more than just import or export transactions and the importance of the initial stages of building relationships and trust cannot be overlooked. Trade Missions are important building blocks in this journey, in that they facilitate relationships by bringing businesses from around Scotland to the table with foreign investors, Governments and Trade Organisations.