It is with great regret that I have to say that I can get very little
information about Scottish businesses. Outside Scotland it is said that
the best of Scots have already left Scotland. I am however aware that some
Scottish businesses are very successful but they seem incapable about telling
us about themselves. I see this as a major barrier to change the common
perception around the world that Scotland is a third world country with
little business infrastructure. The various business organizations I have
contacted in Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Chamber of Commerce,
etc., can provide no information whatsoever. All I can do at this point is
introduce you to The Industries
of Scotland which is an 1869 publication.
All of that said if
there are any Scottish businesses out there that read this and would like
to contribute an article about themselves I'd be pleased to hear from
them.
Government
Expenditure & Revenue Scotland (GERS)
The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) web area
provides information on the annually published GERS report. GERS is
compiled by statisticians and economists in the Office of the Chief
Economic Adviser of the Scottish Government
The York Building Company A Chapter in Scotch History,
Read before the Institutes of Bankers and Chartered Accountants, Glasgow
19th February 1883
(pdf)
Works in Iron
Bridge and Roof Structure by Ewing Matheson (Second Edition) (1877) (pdf)
Fortunes Made in
Business
Series of original Sketches, Biographical and Anecdotal from the
recent History of Industry and Commerce by Various Writers in two
volumes (1884)
Hall Russell Remembered
By Stanley Bruce, Banffshire Maritime Heritage Association (2007) (pdf)
Chokka
Blog
A very good blog which reports on the finances of Scotland which is
second to none.
Factory Industry and Socialism
By William Smart, M.A., Lecturer on Political Economy in Queen
Margaret College, Glasgow, and in University College, Dundee. Read
before the Society, 16th November, 1887. (pdf)
A General View of the
Coal Trade of Scotland
Chiefly that of the River Forth and Mid-Lothian to which is added an
Inquiry into the condition of the Women who carried coals under
ground in Scotland know by the name of Bearers with an appendix in
which a review of the trade is taken to the present period since the
treatise was first published in 1808; and a statement given of the
steps lately taken by Government, with the view of placing the coal
trade under an excise in the effects if which are fully considered
by Robert Bald, Alloa, Civil Engineer and Mineral Surveyor; Member
of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh and Honorary
Member of the Geological Society of London. (1812) (pdf)
The True History of
Alexander, John, and Patrick
And of the Great Mercantile & Manufacturing concern carried on by
them under their firm of John, Alexander, & Co., From an old M.S. in
the Museum of the Sydney University, Australia by the Professor of
Ancient History in the College of Saint Mungo. (1855) (pdf)
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