Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Hospital major incident at ARI
NHS Grampian declared a hospital major incident at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as more than a dozen ambulances stacked up outside the building.
City residents spoke of "pandemonium" at the hospital as ambulances were struggling to offload patients to the A&E department.
The Press & Journal was contacted by concerned NHS Grampian employees on Wednesday after the health board declared a hospital major incident in the evening as personnel struggled to cope with the influx.
The move allowed them to pull in extra staff as the service struggled with a "high number of acutely-ill patients".
The P&J says it is understood the situation was not as a result of a specific incident but more of the growing pressures the health board has been experiencing.
Expensive pasta
The price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years, new research suggests.
A standard 500g bag of pasta was 50p two years ago - now it's 95p.
The BBC says it has been tracking the cost of a small basket of 15 everyday essentials. The total has gone up by £5.34 - from £15.79 in 2021 to £21.13 in 2023.
Official figures suggest overall UK inflation may have peaked at 11.1% in October. But the rate of food price rises is still running at 16.7%.
Ferguson Marine misses accounts deadline
The troubled Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow has been warned it may be forced to stop trading after missing a deadline for filing accounts.
It is building two CalMac ferries - but their cost is now well over double the original contract price, and delivery is more than five years late.
Companies House required the Scottish Government-owned firm to submit its annual accounts by the end of December.
Ferguson said it expected the accounts to be submitted by the end of March.
Companies House issued a public notice warning that it could strike off the firm if it fails to file them.
Ferguson's chief executive David Tydeman said that auditor Grant Thornton was handling what he called "outstanding issues" with the Scottish Government and the public spending watchdog Audit Scotland.
He said the reasons for the delay were "beyond the directors' control".
The BBC says the accounts require the approval of MSPs before being submitted to Companies House.
Collapse of Dundee e-bike hire company
Hundreds of e-bikes have been put up for sale following the collapse of a Dundee hire company.
The move comes after provisional liquidators from FRP Advisory were appointed to wind up Ride-on Scotland.
The company's entire fleet has been put on the market, including 200 e-bikes located in Dundee and 300 at its Leicester base.
FRP Advisory said the business had suffered "unsustainable working capital and cash-flow problems" due to a lack of investment.
The BBC says Ride-on and its operations in Dundee and Leicester have now ceased trading and all nine employees have been made redundant.
New criminal charges against ex-boss of FTX
The former boss of collapsed crypto exchange FTX has been hit with four new criminal charges accusing him of conspiring to make illegal political donations and to commit bank fraud.
Sam Bankman-Fried has already pleaded not guilty to defrauding customers and investors.
FTX filed for bankruptcy last year, leaving many users unable to withdraw their funds.
Bankman-Fried now faces a total of 12 criminal charges.
Regarding the latest charges, prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried of conspiring with two other former FTX executives to donate tens of millions of dollars to influence US politicians to pass laws favourable to the company.
The BBC says he faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted.
Judge Lewis Kaplan has set a trial date of October 2.