Ian McConnell
Business Editor at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist based in Scotland - Business Editor of The Herald. Columnist. @heraldscotland Seven-times category winner in the Scottish Press Awards.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Ian McConnell
Donald Trump unveiled the tariffs on April 2 (Image: Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images) Donald Trump’s tariff soap opera has ensured it has been a rollercoaster of a week. If anyone had thought peak drama had been hit with the US President’s theatrical unveiling of his tariffs on imports to the US from various countries around the world on April 2, the last week has shown this was probably not the case.
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1 week ago |
glasgowtimes.co.uk | Ian McConnell
Max Kownatzki (Image: SunExpress) When interviewing the chief executive of SunExpress, what was particularly striking was the momentum of the airline. This joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Germany’s Lufthansa has nearly doubled its capacity from what it was just before the coronavirus pandemic. And chief executive Max Kownatzki has clear ambitions to continue the airline’s rapid growth, our sister title The Herald reports.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Ian McConnell
Scotland’s small businesses can play a key role in driving growth but are facing a “perfect storm” amid rising costs including for energy and labour, increased administrative burdens and trade tariffs. That is the message from Guy Hinks, who took over on April 1 as the chair of the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland. FSB Scotland represents many thousands of the estimated 355,000-plus small and medium sized enterprises north of the Border.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Ian McConnell
Max Kownatzki (Image: SunExpress) When interviewing the chief executive of SunExpress, what was particularly striking was the momentum of the airline. This joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Germany’s Lufthansa has nearly doubled its capacity from what it was just before the coronavirus pandemic. And chief executive Max Kownatzki has clear ambitions to continue the airline’s rapid growth.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Ian McConnell
2 1/1 Scotland’s private sector economic output fell sharply last month and at the fastest pace since November 2022, with this performance the second-worst among the 12 UK nations and regions, a key survey published today reveals. However, Scotland’s “fractional” fall in private sector employment in March put it top of the table on that measure, with the other 11 UK nations and regions experiencing sharper declines in staffing.
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